Chrome – First impressions
First the pros.
Wow, it’s fast! Damn fast. Faster than any other browser I’ve used. Woo!
I love the fact that they’ve put the tabs in the title bar. Title bars are a waste of screen real estate, I reckon. Good move Google!
Simple UI.
Installation was a speedy breeze on my home PC. Really fast and all my Firefox bookmarks and search engines were imported really quickly. Did I say how quick this was? I did? Well I’ll say it again. It was a very quick installation.
Drag a tab and create a new window. Add more tabs to that window. Wow! Very cool.
Now the cons
I can’t easily swap/select different search engines. I’m addicted to this function in Firefox. Can’t live without it in fact. In Firefox I can search one query across 10 search engines in under 5 seconds (I timed myself). Chrome won’t let me do this. Sad, but it won’t. Here’s a post explaining more.
I cannot search my bookmarks. Crap. I’m so used to this in Firefox that it’s another thing I can’t live without. Seriously a pity. One day, when I only use Delicious (or some other online bookmarking service), this might be ok. Until then, it’s not.
Sadly both of those cons are app killers for me. In every other way, it’s a nice piece of work. Can’t wait for it to come out of beta. Hopefully then they’ll have fixed it for me. =)



September 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pm #Spaniard
Two more cons:
Chrome doesn’t always work behind a corporate proxy (you need to enter the login details for every site that loads). Google Chrome troubleshooting
Chrome doesn’t always install Firefox settings and bookmarks. Google Chrome troubleshooting