(Thank God for work and the XP box there!)
I have downloaded, installed and survived the Google Chrome experience.
As far as I can tell it really lives up to expectations: on first impression its user interface is very nice and crisp, the browser is fast and renders nicely.
It's definitely usable "as-is" and despite being beta could probably replace any browser for day-to-day browsing except perhaps in some rather specific cases which some have been reporting.
Feature-wise, you can seamlessly extract a tab to a new window or reassemble tabs located in separate windows into a single window.
The developer tools are another cool feature. It would be really nice if you could snap them into your current tab though (or have the "snap-in" appear in every tab once you open it). For the moment, the tools open in an new window which stays on top of everything you are doing in the browser and I found it was a major distraction (compared to using Firebug in Firefox for instance).
Last but not least, the "omnibox" in every tab is a really nice feature which I shall probably learn to miss in other browsers.
Well, that's it for now. As you can tell I didn't really have the chance to take it for an in-depth test run and look at security features for instance.
It will be interesting to see whether Google's new approach actually causes any disruption on the browser market.
What do you think?
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I've been using Firefox for too long to show much of an interest in Chrome. I did try it as Google's marketing technique of placing it on there homepage was guranteed to get a couple of thousand downloads, but to be honest i'm sticking with FireFox. Guess i'm just stubbon in change even though i hold nothing against Chrome.
Hi Luke,
I am enclined to agree as although I found using Chrome to be a nice experience, I also felt, and I think others will agree, that a couple of things still needed smoothing out before being able to switch to it "full-time" so to speak.
It will be interesting to take a look at the actual figures once the buzz has died down, and to see how their market share will change over time (some figures seem to show that Google Chrome has already overtaken both Opera and Safari and exceeded their combined market shares).
Elinor
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