Of course, there's no FoxMarks for it yet, which is my "killer app", so my usage will necessarily be limited, but I highly recommend it.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Download Chrome
If you're on a Windows machine, skip Internet Explorer in favor of Google's new browser Chrome. It's positively boring, it works so well. And if you download research papers, you can pull a multi-hundred page PDF in a new tab without seeing any affect at all on the rest of what you're doing(!).
7 comments:
I've been using Firefox so is it worth switching?
Now - I do download .pdf research papers on a regular basis, but I usually read them through Adobe rather than as a separate tab in Firefox.
if you're not using any of firefox's "you gotta go out and get them" plug-ins, Chrome seems the clear winner, simply because the tabs aren't intefering with each other (plus you can drag and drop a tab into a new window, which's neato).
I'm not seeing any blazing speeds.
I *am* seeing much, MUCH better stability with Adobe, and since I work with that -- score.
Depends on what websites -- the more javascript-heavy, the better they seem to perform.
But not having PDF kill my browser is enough of a win for me.
Chrome is fine and all although its rendering is exactly like Firefox's so who cares on that one.
However, considering I crashed it within 10 minutes (and can replicate it), I'm not so impressed. Firefox crashes once or twice every 6 months; IE hasn't crashed in eons (I still say it sucks though).
The PDF thing is nice due to the multi-memory thing.. Although, I blame Adobe for that whole situation far more than IE or FF. Acrobat is one of the biggest pieces of junk released to the wild as 'stable' software.
It's only for PDF in parallel that I see the big benefits,but given the size of the papers/books I download, that's a winner.
I long-term suspect that chrome's real purpose is to force IE into being a better browser.
Another way to look at Chrome is that Google needs it to work with their systems. See the I, Cringely column from last week.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080905_005415.html
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