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5 Things to Love (or Hate) About Google Chrome |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 00:00 |
There's been alot of buzz about Google's new Chrome browser. We've downloaded it primarily so that we could do some testing to ensure our site works well with it, but we've ended up mostly playing around with all the new features. At first impression, there are a handful of things that we both love and dislike about Google's newest browser.
5 Things to Love
- New Tab Thumbnails Granted, this idea was taken from Opera, but it is a terrific and easy way to get started visiting your favorite sites.
- Tabs on Top We feel it is much more intuitive to include the address bar within the tab you are currently viewing. Tabs have always been meant to hold or contain content, so it is strange when things outside the tabs change when you switch.
- Application Shortcuts It still needs a little work, but we love the concept of viewing a web site as if it were an application. Google obviously did this for their own apps, but it also suits us well as our site is essentially a web app as well.
- Built-In Javascript Tools Again, nothing new, but we're happy to see that Google plans on supporting web developers with tools in their browser.
- History/Downloads Not sure why, but we love the fact that your history and downloads are displayed as just another tab in the browser. No annoying popups or hover-overs to get in your way.
5 Things to Hate
- No Home Button Maybe we're missing something, but would love to be able to easily get back to the thumbnail dashboard navigation without having to open a new tab or restart the browser.
- Non-Native Window We've always liked having a consistent GUI for our windows, and don't like that Google went with a non-native window GUI for their browser. We suppose they needed to do it due to the way the tabs are laid out.
- CPU Bugs Our CPU sits at 50% utilization just because we have the Javascript console open.
- Phishing Although we say we love the application view for web sites, we also worry about the implications it may have in terms of phishing. Seems relatively easy to trick somebody to sending off their sensitive data if you can't clearly see the URL.
- Plugins Google says they tried to take the best parts of all the browsers when making their own, but they missed out on how awesome Firefox's plugin architecture is. Or perhaps they will soon be available?
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