Any of you try Google's Chrome browser? I downloaded it the day it came out, but never really gave it much of a chance. Then, after noticing my tech-forward brother using it on his laptop when he was in town to help me apartment hunt, I decided to revisit it. I kinda like it. I didn't want to -- my "I don't want Google to rule every aspect of my life" chip on my shoulder was definitely intact, but it really is, for lack of a better word, different. The "non" home page threw me for a loop at first, but now I kind of like the way it just puts all of your recently visited sites on there to choose from. (I think I added a "Open the Home Page" button, which is useful.) And the way it downloads things -- such as photos -- right there on the page for you to open is cool, too.
But as was the case with the new-and-improved Firefox, I still DO NOT GET the point of tabs. They simply ADD an extra step when you Alt-Tab from program to program -- say from a Word document back to Chrome -- forcing you to then find which of your open tabs you want and to to that, when having a bunch of OPEN WINDOWS allows you to simply Alt-Tab to the window you wanted in the first place
Anyone else try Chrome?
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Chrome if You Want To
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I downloaded it also right away when it was released. I was not crazy about it and removed the application. Maybe I'll revisit it one day.
Chrome's super fast too!
dude, you CTRL+TAB through the tabs in a browser. tabs are brilliant.
But you still have to Alt+Tab TO the browser BEFORE you can CTRL+TAB IN the browser. You're ADDING an extra step, trust me!
I'd still rather have tabs than the 20 windows I would otherwise have open though...
I use Chrome, FireFox, IE and AOL, believe it or not, and I love the tabs. I so all of my reading and research in AOL, but write my blog in IE or Chrome.
I use the tabs to keep my blog, my sitemeter, my ping-o-matic, and my feedburner pages up all the time in one window. I Alt+Tab too sometimes, but just a click on a tab (that I always have in the same place) quickly became a habit.
So saddened to read you're a PC.
I too tried Chrome. It pissed me off that after immediately downloading it,it disabled all my add-ons for IE. I had a heck of a time fixing IE, so as revenge to Google, I uninstalled Chrome. Forget it, I like Firefox better anyways.
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