Google Chrome
My brief review. You can download it here.
The good: It’s fast, clean and neat.
It also lets you use the hotkeys in wordpress (i.e., alt+A for hyperlink) this never worked in Firefox.
The bad (or Firefox ruined me): I want it to open items from a bookmark in a new tab. It doesn’t do that.
I also like to store my bookmarks in folders and opening all items in a folder at once. Can’t do that with Chrome, that I’ve found.
When you close the last tab, it closes the application. Not a fan.
I wish new tabs would be opened at the end and not behind the current tab.
Other: Not tried downloading yet so I dunno if it has a download manager or not.
Update: Also cool that I can resize text boxes in the browser. I do wish it would remember the size and keep it the same when I come back to the site.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 am
It does have a download manager, and you can view all downloads in a nifty tab.
Extremely impressive (for those of us with two monitors anyway), you can drag a tab from one monitor to the other…without opening Chrome on the 2nd monitor…and it will open another instance of the browser with that tab in place.
Or maybe that’s only impressive to *me.*
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
I gave Chrome a try last night and found it to be Firefox lite. It has some neat features but lacks the plug-ins that make FF great. Hopefully Mozilla will take notice and incorporate the cool featured into the next FF.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Middle-click on the bookmark (or any link, for that matter).
Right-click on the containing folder and select “Open all bookmarks” from the popup menu.
If you by “at the end” you mean “to the right of my current tabs,” that’s how it works for me, no matter what I do. I must not be understanding what you mean here.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
No plugins, no care.
Firefox alone is a shit browser. It leaks memory like crazy and is generally sluggish. Adblock plus and Noscript are the reason it is worth using. Those plugins add so much value that they pretty much seal the deal for any browser that supports them.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I understand that Google is claiming ownership of everything created on Chrome. (per Instapundit, earlier).
That in itself might be a reason to stay away from it.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Folders – sorted into bookmark list by name, just like anything else: disconcerting. Especially since I have about a hundred “plain” bookmarks as well as fifteen folders and twelve sub-folders.
Oh, and sort is a bit strange, perhaps based on some font with the special characters allocated different hex values than my system’s standard. I have grown somewhat accustome to blogs showing four different things where I expect an apostrophe, but did not expect sort order to change – my fault, Firefox uses yet another so I should have expected it, but to see the things I carefully prefixed with a special character to appear at the top (of over 2k bookmarks – yeah, wierd) now be at the bottom was a surprise.
Only started a few hours ago, hope to get used to it.
Oh, and has anyone figured out how to stop it calling home every ten minutes even when the browser is closed? OK, it is beta and timely udate check is very important, but come on!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Opening a link or a bookmark in another tab can also be done by Ctrl-clicking it. I’m liking it so far, nice minimalist interface