After chroming around with Google''s new Chrome browser for a few hours and I gotta admit, my head is spinning a bit...
- It looks too much like Vista on XP, wrong..
- It's fast, super fast, but Firefox 3 still ain't too shabby,
- Tab's on top annoy me, scanning over my address bar and bookmark icons each time, and it means to much mouse movement compared to them FF3 style.
- As an IE user it would be more exciting, but I am now used to FF3
- The new tab start page is very cool..
- A problem for developers might be that some things run differently speed wise and might fall over as a result, just like with QBASIC back in the dos days.
- Microsoft must be really, really worried to be thinking anti-trust
- What will the corporates think IE6 is getting crufty....
- Remember, this is only the first beta
Honest have I spent a lot of time with FF and I like the 'weight' of it's browser chrome. I know where the page ends and the browser starts. IE7 & IE8 look distinctly like they couldn't decide what to do with the browser asthetically. Safari feels wrong to me, it's too light.
Consider holding a piece of 70gsm paper in your hand to read, and then taking some 180gsm paper, what feels nicer? for my tastes i like the solid feel.
I'm still waiting for someone to revolutionise the UI for these wide screens displays, asthetically I prefer full screen windows, it's less noisy. There is usually whitespace either side of a page, but even the changes with Chrome, it fails to use that space and instead persists with gobbling up valuble vertical space.
even thinking about the word Sidebar give me shivers..
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Did you notice that Chrome didn't ask where you'd like to install it? It in fact installs into your Windows profile - c:\documents and settings\Your Name\etc. Corporate IT departments will hate that (bloating up roaming profiles by up to 100MB).
The javascript/DOM console is VERY cpu intensive. Just having it open consumed 50% of my quad core processor. I was alerted to that by the increased fan noise!
Also the scrolling is jerky with no option to smooth it. But as you said, it's just a beta. A bit like GMail is just a beta... as it has been for the past 4 years! ;-)
Gary F.
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