{"id":12942,"date":"2008-09-03T23:03:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/03\/playing-with-chrome.html"},"modified":"2008-09-03T23:03:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T06:03:59","slug":"playing_with_chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/playing_with_chrome.html","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

I downloaded Chrome<\/a> this afternoon and ran it for a while.<\/p>\n

Good stuff:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Yes, it seems faster.<\/li>\n
  2. It renders some pages\/screens that Firefox chokes on.<\/li>\n
  3. The interface is, indeed, nice and clean. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bad stuff:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. It glitches on some CSS on my blog which Firefox and IE7 handle as I expect them to.<\/li>\n
    2. No AdBlock. Or FlashBlock. It took me a very short time to realize that, and realize how important that is to my browsing experience.<\/li>\n
    3. 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      So … no plans to change over any time soon. But I’ll keep my eye on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17356,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/sticking-with-firefox-rather-than-chrome-for-the-nonce.html","url_meta":{"origin":12942,"position":0},"title":"Sticking with Firefox rather than Chrome for the nonce","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-May-10 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"I ran an experiment over the last week to see if I could replace my Firefox browser with Chrome.\u00a0 I've been a long-time FF user (since back in July '04, back when it was still in beta), but spent a lot of time running Chrome in parallel during the Great\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "My Computer"","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"firefox","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/firefox.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16611,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/new-machine-chrome-configuration.html","url_meta":{"origin":12942,"position":1},"title":"New Machine: Chrome configuration","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Jan-10 6:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't gone bugnutscrazy over adding extensions to Chrome now that it supports them. 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