These days I am pretty much using Google Chrome which I think is probably a little faster than Firefox. It actually loads faster than Firefox and the Pokéball inspired Chrome logo is lovely for Pokémon lovers like me.
But the thing that pisses me off is the refreshing. Firefox has Ctrl + F5 which does a forced refresh. Is there something similar in Chrome?
Also missing in Chrome is the beloved Delicious and Firebug plugins.
Crashes faster. Five minutes is all it took. [Thanks Wynn.]
(Google Chrome is faster than Mozilla Firefox.)
I like the Incognito icon at the top left. That’s the porn mode right?
(Google Chrome Incognito mode.) (more…)
Google is coming out with Google Chrome, an open source browser that takes cues from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Does the world need another browser?
We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.
The blockquote represent statements from Google blog. And just so you know, the world does not need another browser.
So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.
Ahahaa, love what they wrote there. Isn’t every product development about adding value to consumers and driving innovation. What a cliché.
We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.
Yay, one more browser to optimize.
We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.
It’s great that they’re taking cues from WebKit. You can see some Google Chrome comics here.
In general, an additional browser is a good thing for innovation. It’s probably the worst thing that could ever happen to web design or developing. Okay, actually the second worst, the worst being developing an additional skin for the iPhone just so to prettify things.
There was a time when Microsoft Internet Explorer is the de facto browser. While everyone’s not happy, remember that back then we only had one browser to test in. And that time Internet Explorer this version does not look the same as Internet Explorer that version, isn’t that just like what is happening right now?
And yeah, it wasn’t all that good. I got the invite some time back. I was preoccupied that time and I didn’t really explore well till today. Pogo is another one of those browser that does the 3D thingy (not that we actually need another more of those).
I wish the browser makers could wake up one day and understand that 3D browser is not something humans want – maybe cyborgs could’ve totally drool all over – but not humans.
Pogo does a few things wrongly, they tried to reinvent the way people bookmark without a strong social element. They put all the 3D engine into this collections thing that look really cool if not for my 770 delicious link that basically hung the browser for a couple of minutes ’cause it’s generating screenies for the bookmarks. The 3D uses JavaScript which tends to give warnings due to script running too slowly.
And what’s with different names to the word ‘bookmark’. Internet Explorer calls it ‘Favorites’. Firefox calls it ‘Bookmarks’. Pogo calls it ‘Collections’. If I wrote a browser, I’ll call it – let me think, okay – ‘Elephants’. Whatever.
Another cool thing is the history browser, also uses screenshots of web sites. Pogo, unfortunately, is not intelligent enough to know how to give the appropriate screenshots, the offset is usually wrong and the screenies are either too big or too small never just right.
To worsen what already is bad enough, it uses Firefox 2 instead of 3 as the back end. Firefox 3 sorts out lots of memory issues and it’s amazing that I can now open 50 tabs and till smile. By the way, in Firefox 2, I used to open 50 tabs and chat with my friends on MSN just ’cause the browser is taking eons to respond. In Pogo, opening 12 tabs makes me cry.
On the lighter note, Pogo does have a nice logo. (Somehow reminds me of string theory.) I felt it could’ve been packaged into a Firefox plugin instead of compiling a whole browser out of it. Associating a web site with a screenshot is not enough, the screenshot is just too small to allow me to know what I am clicking on.
My impression of the browser wasn’t good, it’s trying too hard to be different but has not necessarily succeeded in the usability department. Good try on aesthetics. The social element is missing too and there is no way to way any Firefox Add-ons which is just a deal breaker. Stars! Yea, 2 stars out of 5.
[Pogo is just a project name and would probably be called AT&T Freestyle, AT&T Lenz or AT&T Bezel.]
Well, type ‘about:robots’ without quotes in the location bar in Firefox 3.
(Source: LaughingSquid)
You can of course press the button.
Okay okay, so I downloaded a copy too. Actually I cheated you know. I downloaded 5 copies. Each for one of my computers and virtual machines (I have 2). Some showing off:
The download day is a success in my opinion. It’s messy and everyone’s rushing to download, the servers couldn’t keep up but it created the awareness for Firefox 3. Ultimately that’s the point of download day and this is a case where there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Half the population of Planet Geekdom probably can’t get their Firefoxes and ranted all over. This is an indirect announcement that Firefox 3 is here.
On related news, Firefox 3 reaches six percent market share.
Third day straight in Ubuntu. The lack of oxygen and the familiar ALT-Tab interface made breathing hard. Half the population has already been wiped out and an enemy space ship appeared out of no where to hold some of us hostage, I had to sacrifice my brother to escape being a hostage.
Anyway, Ubuntu turned out okay. Most of my annoyance is due to familiarity with Windows.
Windows does almost everything Ubuntu can do. User-interface-wise Ubuntu is still poorer. I hand Ubuntu to my father to use and he prefers Windows. My father touched neither of them. He like the Windows Teletubby land wallpaper and more attractive icons and also says he likes Windows’ Firefox. He somehow didn’t like the Ubuntu one. It’s the colors somehow and I just let him have Windows XP in the end.