Google Chrome: Simple Enough
I’ve been using Google Chrome. It’s pretty good. Normally I’d click Firefox and wait for while, thinking about the impossibility of dying in the mind of someone living. Chrome just loads in literally 2 seconds. I miss some of my Firefox plugins, there’s absolutely no privacy (your history is your homepage) and a few creature features here and there are off. However, the program doesn’t use that much memory and it’s pretty minimal and simple, so pretty much my browser of choice now. I’m a big Google whore generally, but I guess I’d recommend it. Of course, I’ll continue to use Firefox at work until they make a Chrome for Mac (it’s currently Windows only).
Not that I’m undigging on Firefox. It’s still a ‘strong’ browser, like Photoshop. I use Google’s Picasa for 90% of my photo editing, but I really need PS for that other 10%. I have to switch to Firefox right now, for example, to properly post the excerpt to this blog.
Some other simple technology I’d like is the Flip Camcorder (one button record, one click to YouTube, and no cables). At this point I understand that technology can do a lot of things. Now I’d like to to just do a few things well.
I love Chrome and think it suffices for about the same 90% of my needs. I do have a weird problem though with Chrome and that is viewing videos – it seems download much faster but then gets stuck playing them. So much so that I end up now opening FF to watch any videos.
i really loved it…….. too simple…great design…..fire fox guys must be crazy by now
Well, as for the privacy thing, you can use the ‘incognito window’ by right – clicking on a link, and anyone who uses your computer won’t be able to see a trace of what you’ve been surfing! Neat, isn’t it?
Well this is the thing with Google… they seem to pop out of the woodwork, take something that someone else has been doing for years and immediately do it better (Gmail appearing on a Hotmail/Yahoo dominated scene is case and point).
Chrome is a little bit different for me though. Although I have no doubt that Google will eventually take it to where they want it to be (at the top of the browser market for sure), I am still happy to give it a few more months before I jump on the bandwagon. The code is still being tested and is therefore vulnerable to many of the attacks that Firefox and IE are able to patch up instantly. Also, I just don’t see any value in using a browser which doesn’t let me do everything I need it to do (at this stage) when there is a fully functioning alternative. I love Firefox because it’s fast and does everything I expect in a quality browser.
I’ve got no issues with Google dipping their creative little fingers in this market, but I for one will be giving it just a little bit more time before I jump on board and swear by it.
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