Some of my thougths on Google Chrome
After the first week playing around with Google’s browser and a few things caught my eye:
- I’m not sure the idea of putting the tabs on the top improves anything in usability terms, but it doesn’t bother me either. I guess it’s more like a design statement to make a difference than a real improvement.
- Sometimes I have some font rendering problems issues (I already submitted a bug with that).
- The lack of plugins is an issue, I need my Delicious extension and Greasemonkey scripts while others have other needs, that’s the beauty of extensibility (this is Firefox’s turf) that is lacking on Chrome, .
- I like the security and stability of having each tab, and each plugin, running in their own process, which can be confirmed using Process Explorer:
This is something Firefox still is behind, even the 3.1 version shares the same process (Internet Explorer 8 will also handle a tab as a separate process). - I much prefer the darker colour scheme of the incognito window than the default (minus that icon with dude in a raincoat), it’s much more sober and less annoying than that XP style blue that comes by default.
Theme support would be nice but a handful of colour schemes other than “baby blue” would be nice. - Lots and lots and lots of eye-candy! Everything is smooth and sleek: the animation while opening a new tab, the search results that appear in the scroll bar, the resizable text boxes, and so on. Everything’s is smooth an
- It’s fast.
For now I’m impressed but I still need a Linux version, because the current option ain’t a decent alternative.
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