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The Chrome Press Event

Posted: 12:21 September 3, 2008
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I actually played with Chrome last night for about 4 minutes and thought … this is nice …

I took a look at this this morning (it was linked to on Tech Crunch)

There are some pretty interesting features gone in there … I like the separation of pages … the ability to create standalone “application” windows … not to mention the sandboxing of the browser to restrict its interaction with the underlying OS.

Other nice features ..

  • Privacy Mode … meaning people can’t track your browsing history
  • Separation of tabs / plugins into their own processes which can “die” independantly and not take down your browser

It does seem fast as hell as well I was running it in a VM this morning on my Mac ..

What do others thing of it ?


Posted by James



5 Responses to “The Chrome Press Event”

  1. Merrill on September 3rd, 2008 1:50 PM

    I found it really fast too.
    Chrome + Firefox extensions would be a great browser !

  2. James on September 3rd, 2008 5:52 PM

    Hey Merrill .. didn’t get to French Friday (on Sunday) the last day … was busy with work unfortunately. Welcome to my blog however :D

    And yeah … lack of firebug … web dev … extensions means I can’t use it just yet. Also the lack of a Mac version …

    Running it on a VM makes my machine run a little more hot than I’m comfortable with.

  3. paul savage on September 5th, 2008 8:33 AM

    I think I need to find some time at the weekend to check it out. Sadly so far I haven’t had time.

    I do wonder how they are going to ‘pull’ market share from other browsers ? And with people still worried about privacy and google’s vast amounts of data they have on people, I don’t see this changing.

    P

  4. James on September 5th, 2008 8:57 AM

    I think they’ll definitely have to address the EULA firstly.

    The browser is FAST …

    I was doing billing on my PC yesterday and I was using it and it feels fast … I really think I now like what they’ve done …

    VA installed it on her work machine (old machine) and its fast … I think 17mbs memory as opposed to firefoxs 90 by default …

    I think the lack of plugins though will hurt it.
    And once plugins do start what then .. obviously we’ll see stability issues similar to firebug for quite some time.

  5. Jennifer on September 5th, 2008 1:23 PM

    I really like it too. Simple and elegant.

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