Google Chrome
Posted on | December 13, 2009 | No Comments
I just uploaded Google Chrome today and I am very pleased so far. Here’s a quick summary of what I’m liking:
1. Speed: I timed the page load time between Chrome and Firefox on a web site that I have never gone to before and Chrome took 2.1 secs vs. Firefox which took 3.8 secs.
2. Search within the address bar: makes sense, doesn’t it? Why have two places to enter in web page information?
3. Thumbnails of recently visited pages in new tab: when you open a new tab, thumbnails of the last 8 web sites that you visited are displayed. The grid, to me, is reminscent of the speed dial in Opera in the way it looks. You can toggle the view from the grid to a list view.
4. Setup was FAST and imported my settings from Firefox very easily
I’ll update this post as I keep using this browser. I am very impressed with the speed, most definitely!
EDIT: After using Chrome for 3 days, I’m missing 2 things that I liked in Firefox: 1) the bigger back button (left arrow) in the main toolbar and 2) the ability to pull down the history by clicking on the down arrow to the right of the page forward button. If you want to go back in the history, you have to keep hold down the back button and the recent pages will dropdown and you can select. I understand why they probably made this UI decision which I think is to save on space and for the look and feel, but I’m too accustomed to the FF way. Wah, wah, wah, call the wam-bulance!
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