Filed Under (general) by arthurfreydin on 04-09-2008
Ruh, roh. Looks like the one application that I had running all day on Firefox doesn’t like Google Chrome. I use CentralDesktop for collaboration at work so clearly this is an application that I need 100% of the time. I guess my goal of not opening up Firefox all day is no longer a reality.
On a side note, did you see how I referred to CentralDesktop as an application? Before Chrome, I would have just called it a website. Interesting.
Filed Under (general) by arthurfreydin on 02-09-2008
I’m writing this post right in Google’s new browser – Chrome. It was officially announced here, via the Google blog. Here are my initial thoughts:
- It’s crazy fast on web applications like Wordpress, Omniture, Gmail, etc.
- More screen real estate devoted to the actual webpage rather than status bar, toolbar, etc.
- Remembers usernames/passwords like a dream – all you have to do is begin to type the username and it automatically fills in the remainder of the username and associated passwords
- Loads Flash animations much quicker
- Gathered all Firefox history, cookies, logins, etc so it’s easy to hit the ground running in a new browser
- Very pleasing design
- Status bar on the bottom only appears when it needs to
- The “omnibar” address bar is awesome!
- No title bar
Overall, I would say that this is a great effort by Google. I’ve been using Firefox forever now and once Google Chrome starts taking off, there is quite a bit of potential here.
