Comments on: One Week with Google Chrome

By: Linen

Linen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:07:57 +0000

PC World released a list of the top 10 Google Chrome Add-ons. http://www.pcworld.com/article/185744/top_10_chrome_browser_add_ons.html

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:15:56 +0000

I haven’t heard of it – it’s been a while since my testing days, but yeah in general it’ll be great when Chrome gets a little more extensible.

By: bstewart23

bstewart23 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:35:45 +0000

Also, once automated-testing tools like Selenium are retooled for Chrome, my (work) life’ll be much happier. Have you heard anything about that, Adam?

One other weirdness, though… I find the editing of entry box text is a bit stuttery on my fast Vista box.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:56:59 +0000

Well good to hear others are having better luck with the import process. Probably just a one-off bug that I hit.

I’m looking forward to seeing what the performance is like on the Mac. It work great on my beefed up ThinkPad at work on Win XP, but my Mac has been really sluggish lately so if it’s faster than Safari, I’ll switch in a second.

By: bstewart23

bstewart23 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:52:20 +0000

I was impressed with the bookmark-importing, too, especially since so many of my Firefox bookmarks are dupes of my IE bookmarks. No dupes in Chrome, though!

On my fast test machines, Chrome is peerless, but on my slower test machine I notice a 2-4 second hesitation in user control when accessing the remaining tabs after one tab has been closed. Possibly due to memory re-allocation?

I have to giggle when I read the outrage surrounding the EULA and big-brotherish info-gathering facilitated by Chrome. Do people actually believe their ISP doesn’t do this already?

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:53:47 +0000

It’s possible I guess. Didn’t put anything in the bookmarks bar when I imported.

By: Jerrold

Jerrold — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:42:13 +0000

Importing bookmarks was a pain? I’ve never seen an *easier* process. It did it all automatically on install. Not sure what you did wrong (did you choose to “skip import” during install?).

By: Miles

Miles — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:39:40 +0000

Oh, and the best feature of the browser for me, the incognito window. I love the idea that I can browse outside of my normal circle of sites without leaving a trail of cookies and other crap in my web folders.

By: Miles

Miles — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:36:36 +0000

I’m not enamoured with the look of Chrome, the aesthetics look awkward to me, unbalanced. I do like the functional design though, I love that there are so few elements in the interface, yet it’s everything you need.

Everyone has habits when using apps and we’re all different, obviously Chrome’s not going to make everyone happy. Personally I dislike the lack of a bookmarks sidebar, a horizontal bar is just a bad use of space. I can fit perhaps ten or so bookmarks on the bar, a fraction of the bookmarks I use on a regular basis, but with a sidebar I can fit tens of links into a re-sizable space. Stacking is better than rowing in this case. Clicking on the “Other bookmarks” button and surfing through folders to find links is not my idea of efficiency.

I think one of the things that will clinch my default browser choice is ads. With FF I can install any number of addons to block ads successfully. I can’t see Google allowing you to do that on their browser. Ads are their bread and butter. They have a pop-up blocker sure, but I’d be surprised if they give developers free reign to make plugins that go against their base interest. They might, it will be interesting to see how defensive they are on that point. In the meantime FireFox remains my browser.

By: Phil Downey

Phil Downey — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:23:05 +0000

I was surprised they didn’t make the differentiation between background tabs and normal tabs. Background tabs open the way Chrome opens tabs, normal tabs open immediately. Its one thing that Opera has over FF and Chrome.