Chrome works well on an IWB. The small UI means that you get more web content on the whiteboard. Good use of whiteboard screen real estate. The tabs work nicely too, as you’ll see from this short video I made.
Oh, and I was using Portable Google Chrome running off my thumb drive. Get it from Caschy’s blog here
I was listening to Buzz Out Loud this morning (ep. 801)and it appears that Chrome is faster than other browsers. And much faster than IE7. Here’s a link to some graphs.
I’ve tried it out on an interactive whiteboard in a classroom. I like the way it looks, but I think that the tabs in the title bar might be a bit of a stretch to reach for the vertically challenged teacher or student. Oh well.
The title bar/tab thing does look rather good tho. Here’s a screenie comparison, first there’s Chrome:
Then there’s Firefox (I’ve got lots of tabs open, I know):
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. =)
This video is from the Google Chromium site. Chromium is the open source project behind Google Chrome.
Here’s a post on what’s happening with Google Chrome for MacOSX
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