Catch My Fame » Chrome http://www.catchmyfame.com A web designoper's journal Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:09:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google’s Chrome Browser http://www.catchmyfame.com/2008/09/04/googles-chrome-browser/ http://www.catchmyfame.com/2008/09/04/googles-chrome-browser/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:26:54 +0000 admin http://www.catchmyfame.com/?p=32 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
I’m eager to see how the browser’s development progresses and how it impacts Firefox and IE.
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