Friday, September 05, 2008

Chrome at Home?

I haven't decided if I need Google Chrome, Google's new browser, at home. I'm test driving it at the day job because it's a good idea to see how a site looks in different browsers, and I think a lot of people will be using Chrome just because of Google's ubiquity. (Does the logo remind anyone else of the old Simon game?)

A site that looks lovely in Internet Explorer 7 may not degrade so nicely to Internet Explorer 6. I once spent a day trying to find a piece of template code that would change line from purple to orange in IE6 while it was as rich as Blogger's orange in 7.

Happily Chrome has no problems with any sites I have anything to do with. Any problems are mine. Gotta upgrade my personal home page to utilize CSS one of these days.

Google Chrome has some nice touches. It's succinct, no frils, gives you a full view of a web page without much wrap-around. It has a memory for site's you visited that's a bit like Opera's Speed Dial, and it seems fast and handles Flash content and the like readily.

It takes a bit of getting used to to access the tools on the upper right corner, but that will probably come with time.

It features some new "incognito" touches that are the current rage as well.

I guess I haven't found many points not covered in Infoworld's review. As they note, I use a few addons in Firefox that it won't accommodate but I don't stick to one browser anyway.

For quick easy surfing, I think chrome may not be a bad choice.

6 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

I just downloaded Safari and find it to be pretty good. That logo definitely looks like the Simon game. Must have been a young person who designed, one who didn't remember that game.

Sidney said...

Yeah, Safari is great, and I think every site looks its absolute best in Safari.

Shauna Roberts said...

Thanks for reporting on your experiments.

If I'm already using Safari as my main browser and have Firefox and Explorer installed for sites that Safari doesn't handle well, do you think there's any reason for me to try Chrome?

Sidney said...

I think you're probably fine for basic browsing needs, Shauna. They may make improvements, so if it gains function it might be worth looking at.

Steve Malley said...

And here's me still trying to get the hang of Firefox...

Miladysa said...

I'll have to try it out and I had never heard of Safari until I read Charles' comment.

I'm just trying to get my head around this new Vista - it's driving me nuts!

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