I downloaded Chrome this afternoon and ran it for a while.
Good stuff:
- Yes, it seems faster.
- It renders some pages/screens that Firefox chokes on.
- The interface is, indeed, nice and clean.
Bad stuff:
- It glitches on some CSS on my blog which Firefox and IE7 handle as I expect them to.
- No AdBlock. Or FlashBlock. It took me a very short time to realize that, and realize how important that is to my browsing experience.
- No support (for the moment) for RoboForm, which is a password store on steroids and probably the most useful add-on I have to FireFox (it works on IE, too), bar none.
So … no plans to change over any time soon. But I’ll keep my eye on it.
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Yeah, I miss Roboform support.
I spent a frantic minute or two trying to figure out why there was no Google search box built into a Google browser. Then I realized that the address bar was the Google search box. >_
One thing that works better is Google Reader (not surprisingly). I find that most feeds that come via Feedburner do not load properly on my machine with FF 3.0.1. (They do load okay in both Chrome and IE.) I’ve yet to find a thread anywhere about this particular gap, but it’s darned annoying.
One classroom technology that a lot of people at our university are just in love with is called ‘Blackboard’, and it’s Javascript driven. Barely runs in IE, chugs along in Firefox, but it flies in Chrome. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Probably means we’re stuck with Blackboard for five more years.
That sounds like a testament to the new Java engine in Chrome, which is just the sort of thing they were driving toward.
Roboform has added support for Google Chrome! 🙂
I do still have to use other browsers for a couple of sites that don’t like Chrome. 🙁
Coolness. That’s a positive sign.
Unless I was wrong…
I could have sworn it asked me if I wanted Google chrome support when i installed the latest update, but now there doesn’t seem to be a “Fill forms” option in Chrome.
Sorry. I think I must have goofed. 🙁