Eshin Direct

I tried Google Chrome this week and was distinctly unimpressed. Firstly, I wasn’t too impressed that there wasn’t a version for the Mac but then perhaps Google didn’t think it’s browser was ready for an audience already satisfied with its access to the web through Safari or Firefox. It definitely smacks of going after Internet Explorer rather than Firefox.

On the whole, what I saw was at best a beta release of the Chrome software. Faster loading? None noticeable without benchmarking tests. Ability to customize look and feel? Nope, Google has pretty much forced its happy view of what the Internet should look like to you and I, which is blue and white.

But it does a nifty thing by remembering all your sites so it can display that in your most popular sites home page. Don’t want your porn favourites to be visible as your most visited sites when you load it up first thing in the morning? Easy, switch to anonymous browsing mode. Apparently each tab gets its own process so that when one tab crashes you don’t lose everything and only that tab dies. Nice idea but worth changing from Firefox to Chrome?

Not likely, I like my ‘Fox. Let’s see what Google makes of Chrome and if it will die the quiet comatose death a lot of its products are in (can anyone say Orkut?). Hopefully not, but then really Google, you are going to have to do better than Firefox because that can’t be beat at the moment. Perhaps if I was an Internet Explorer or an Opera user then I might have considered it.

Tags: browser, chrome, geekery, google, Techie Rants