Chrome
Took Google Chrome out for a run this morning. Shiny. Bumped into a couple of rendering bugs but it seems pretty complete for an initial release. I didn't particularly notice the huge javascript speed increases, I suspect this is because on my satellite connection the major delay is the lag to fetch every piece of data.
So the things I missed most from Firefox:
- the right click "Open in new tab" is not in the exact same place
- my addons - GTDInbox, Twitterfox , expecially twitterfox. Seriously, if I think of something witty I need to share it straight away or it’s lost forever.
- popup blocking behaviour was to put little window bars down the bottom, which I kept accidentally opening to see what they were. I guess I would learn.
The install did a great job of picking up my passwords from Firefox, which worries me. Note to self: don’t let browser remember passwords for important stuff.
Other lauded features:
- The window/tab dragging thing was cute.
- Having the most visited pages from the history show up as options in the new tab was sort of cool, although I would possibly want to customise this.
- The combined address bar / search bar was quickly adapted to.
It seems good enough to persevere with, just need those add-ons guys.
