Wednesday, September 03, 2008

First impression of Google Chrome

Things I like:
  • lightness
  • speed of loading and rendering
  • Apple-like feel
  • browser acting like an application especially when you create application shortcuts (it really does feel and look like an application instead of being in a browser environment and unless my mind deceives me, it loads faster in such a mode than in a normal Chrome mode)
  • creating application shortcuts on desktops etc.
  • larger viewing space
  • history shown in thumbnails
  • task manager and stats 
  • nice looking Javascript console
  • bookmarks as you type at the address bar much like FireFox 3
Things I don't like:
  • I miss my Google toolbar, bookmarks, etc
  • It actually detects security issues with GMail!
  • Some scripts (especially in Facebook which can become quite annoying) and plugins do not work (Quicktime is an example)
  • no RSS support .. albeit at the moment
  • not being able to use some cool addons in FF i.e. Shareaholics etc. takes valuable points from otherwise a pretty cool browser
  • unable to import my vast collection of bookmarks from my Google account
  • unable to move backwards and forwards to a few level deep
I will try out a bit more and log down after a night's sleep.

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