A quick review on Google Chrome
Sep 4th, 2008 by brianschettler
I’m really enjoying Google Chrome, Google’s new fast web browser. It seems pretty fast, although I wonder exactly how it renders because certain “hacks” can be made that trick the user into thinking that things are happening faster (see the trick where you decrease the start menu fly-out delay time to make users think their computers are faster).
I certainly miss my Firefox extensions, namely my delicious bookmarks.
There’s also some ways in which it handles certain actions (when I type “restaurants” in the location bar, do I want to go to restaurants.com or do I want to search for restaurants? That makes me pause every time).
Separate processes definitely is a good thing and the way things are going. I also managed to crash a tab by opening a PDF document with Adobe Reader (argh I hate Adobe Reader). It wasn’t as graceful as I hoped…eventually the tab made the “sad face,” but for about 30-40 seconds before that all of the Chrome window was unresponsive…and then finally all my clicked events went through at once.
I like the new tab default page. Whoever thought of that is very smart.