Posted by : Tom Doyle in (Internet & Computers, Web Design, Web Development) 3rd Sep, 2008
Google Chrome Review
Tagged Under : Google, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox
I’ve been using it all of maybe an hour…. and so far I love it!
As far as innovation goes, it’s not hugely innovative. In terms of funky features, I really like the “most visited sites” page when you open a new tab. Rather than having to type in your most used website, you simply open a new tab and it will give you access to your most used sites plus searches and other items you use on a regular basis.
One other feature I love is the tabbing. You can drag, move them around and drag the tab to a new window and just in case you want to put it back, you can drag it back onto the the original window…. nice….
From a web developers point of view, they have a lovely option on right click which allows you inspect an element. This brings up a little dialog that allows you to look at the page markup and css styles.
One niggling element was the lack of a homepage button on the toolbar. But this can be put on by going “Wrench >> Options >> and ticking Show Home button on the Toolbar”.
So far I really like it… I’m sure time will show up more that I haven’t noticed.
As far as the mass using it? I imagine it will be a geeky tool, just like FireFox. I can’t see many joe soaps downloading it.
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I downloaded it earlier today and gave it a shot, within 5 minutes I found 2 sites that just refused to load…
gmail and google reader!
If it wasn’t for the fact that they load fine in IE and FF at the same time I wouldn’t feel so disapointed
Apart from that I loved it, but seein as it’s a google product that won’t load google sites for me I won’t be using it anytime soon.
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Didnt think much of it, found couple of bugs with css, menu rollovers and the like, cant beat ff for plugins google has a ways to go yet , and of course we all need yet another browser to proof sites lol
Derek
Hi Derek,
Thanks for stopping by. Chrome is based on WebKit, the same engine that Safari uses, so if it works in Safari, your site should be the same in Chrome.
Certainly for me, FF is still the best browser out there.
Tom
Ya true Tom, FF the range of plugins for seo, developers etc is endless.
Derek
Google Chrome is extremely useful when it comes to productivity. I really like chrome so far, it looks fantastic with the new tab location and im finding it a lot faster than IE!
any new stats on chrome / market share , i know they took down 1 % market share on first day.
Hi Derek
I haven’t seen any up to date stats since I last posted.
As soon as I do, I will pop them up!
Tom
Google chrome is not that good. Sure it’s got some neat features, but the fact that Google owns it, it will *never* have the ability to block ads.
But as far as speed is concern, chrome is far more away then the other browsers.