Archive for September, 2008

Yesterday, I heard about Google Chrome, and downloaded it to give it a shot. The first impressions are very good. The features I like best are:

• Quick multi-threaded loading
• Very clean interface
• Tabs on the title bar. This was strange at first, but now I like how it gives more viewing space for the page itself.
• Space, again. This browser is so nicely designed, that I get to see more of the page than with any other browser.
• the New tab, where I have preview-links to my most visited sites
• resize any text area you encounter on any site
• nice Download manager
• quickly importing all setting from Firefox
• stats for nerds

Things that could be improved:

• I can’t make the home button link to multiple pages. I can set the browser to start with multiple pages opened, but I can’t seem to do that for the home button
• mouse wheel scrolling doesn’t feel right

What keeps me from using it as my primary browser

• The rich-text-editor on the XNA forums is shown as a plain text editor, with no support for adding links, formatting text, and inserting code blocks. And if I write some text there, all new lines disappear in the final post, resulting in a ugly one-paragraph post. And as much as I hate the erratic behavior of the rich-text-box (with disappearing paragraphs, and crappy undo, and stupid right-click context menu), I can’t live without the ability to link to stuff, or highlight my point.