Google Chrome
Posted On Sunday, September 14, 2008 at at 12:18 AM by Lokesh I am fairly impressed with Chrome the way it renders page. It looks so light and agile. I use ubuntu so I had to get my system up with XP. I thought of getting it under wine but the look n feel won't be great and flash content won't load or will be horrible. To avoid mess, I installed it on XP and thought of getting it on ubuntu later if it is pretty impressive and worthy.
I wished to have multi process feature in firefox having had to kill the entire browser process when navigating sites like youtube. It is annoying when the browser crashes on loading flash video. You should be seeing multiple chrome process running in task manager. Also to make it easy Chrome has its own task manager to kill web pages that is not responding.
I see the thumbnails of frequently visted pages but I am not sure how many will prefer using these (fancy) features. I see the domain name suggest feature in address bar similar to firefox3. As a developer, I feel the inspector tool quite useful. It is a component from WebKit so no wonder it is attractive. The memory and CPU usage map will also help web developers.
I was surprised when I came to know that there is no support for add ons. I am sure I can't browse without add ons. I think the strength of firefox itself is addons. I use Unplug, FlashBlock, DataFox, Dictionaries quite frequently that I never use IE. I would be happy if Chrome supports the firefox addons some how (I knew it won't be that easy but nothing wrong in expecting it from Google). I understand it is too early to expect from Google, but they could have launched with few addons most used by firefox users. Also an industry leader like Google should support linux users. Though promised I think we should get products platform independent. I don't see GTalk for Linux till now and I had to use Tapioca. I will be happy if Google comes out with Chrome for Linux like G Desktop, Picasa.
Overall I think Chrome is a good start but a long way to go. I have to stick with firefox 3 for now.
I see the thumbnails of frequently visted pages but I am not sure how many will prefer using these (fancy) features. I see the domain name suggest feature in address bar similar to firefox3. As a developer, I feel the inspector tool quite useful. It is a component from WebKit so no wonder it is attractive. The memory and CPU usage map will also help web developers.
I was surprised when I came to know that there is no support for add ons. I am sure I can't browse without add ons. I think the strength of firefox itself is addons. I use Unplug, FlashBlock, DataFox, Dictionaries quite frequently that I never use IE. I would be happy if Chrome supports the firefox addons some how (I knew it won't be that easy but nothing wrong in expecting it from Google). I understand it is too early to expect from Google, but they could have launched with few addons most used by firefox users. Also an industry leader like Google should support linux users. Though promised I think we should get products platform independent. I don't see GTalk for Linux till now and I had to use Tapioca. I will be happy if Google comes out with Chrome for Linux like G Desktop, Picasa.
Overall I think Chrome is a good start but a long way to go. I have to stick with firefox 3 for now.