Well, the big surprise news from the last day or two (at least to me), was the sudden surprise announcement of the beta for the new web browser from Google, called Chrome.
Based on the WebKits rendering engine and boasting improved performance and stability by launching each tab as its own process, I was suitably intrigued, and being a sucker for these kinds of beta tests, was quick to grab the beta first thing yesterday morning.
So far, I must admit, I’m very impressed. The cutdown interface takes a bit of getting used to, but focuses your attention on the webpage you’re reading. A welcome change in these days of being flooded by toolbars for various things. The fully draggable tabs are incredibly cool as well. The way they undock and re-dock with the main window is very smooth.
However, the main thing, is the speed. Its helluva fast. There are various benchmarks floating around, but basically it smokes even Firefox3 by a considerable margin. Despite its beta tag, its also been pretty stable for me as well. I’ve been using it since yesterday morning, and so far no crashes.
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Google Chrome is very fast, but there are no extensions…. so i keep my Firefox.
I’m definitely still a Firefox man, but I do like the stripped down interface for Chrome. Saying that, I’ve never heavily used extensions in Firefox, which does make a difference.
It’ll be interesting to see if Google intend to open the browser up to extensions, or if they’ll keep it as paired-down as possible, and leave the customisability to Firefox.
I do like my firefox extensions, but they do slow the thing down a bit. Admitteldy half of them are ultra paranoid security apps that are questioning every website about its legitimacy.
I’ve only got a couple, mainly the AVG safe search thingy that displays an icon beside my search results to indicate the trust-worthiness of the site. But by and large I live on the edge with my browsing.
Which may explain the viruses…
I really should get round to installing AdBlock at somepoint though. An extension you can all but guarantee will never turn up in Chrome.
I’ve got Adblock, WOT (A webstie trustwortheyness thing) The AVG plugin and of course the weather, because its important to know how wildly innacuurate the weather forcast is. As I sit next to a window.