Thu 4 Sep 2008
After using Google’s new Chrome browser for a couple of days I have to say that it shows promise as being a great choice for my go to browser. With some work. Here’s a quick rundown of my initial pros and cons…
Pros:
- Fast
- Fast. I mean really fast
- Intuitive to use
- Did I mention it’s fast?
- Great new features. I love being able to tear off and rearrange tabs, searching and bookmarking are cake, and it doesn’t seem to have any obscure page rendering issues.
- Easy to use download manager
- Auto hide status bar
- Runs better than IE8 beta.
- Cool Opera-like start page
Cons:
- No home button in the toolbar
- No print preview
- No Undo Close Tab feature like Firefox has.
- No add-ons (yet). Chrome’s source code is available now so we’ll see what happens with that. Adblock is my favorite Firefox extension and if Chrome can get something similar (yes I realize Google owns Adsense) then it will be a huge plus.
- Lacks some basic customization features
