alecs » browser http://www.ylipsis.com/blog web development, SEO, technology Sat, 15 May 2010 11:51:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Chrome version http://www.ylipsis.com/blog/2010/01/new-chrome-version/ http://www.ylipsis.com/blog/2010/01/new-chrome-version/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:22:26 +0000 alecs http://www.ylipsis.com/blog/?p=349 I updated Chrome after reading on techcrunch about the new version.

It’s great that you can sync your bookmarks now. Another nice thing is that an extension from Xmarks is available (last time I checked on the Xmarks site, they didn’t offer any integration with Chrome).

However, no Firebug yet. And Firebug Lite doesn’t count!

Firefox is like an old wife:

  • you have lots of things in common with her
  • she doesn’t move too much and is very slow
  • she’s not exactly the prettiest one out there
  • she takes a lot of your memory
  • sometimes she breaks down (and cries)

On the other hand, Chrome is like a young chick:

  • looks sexy
  • she is very active and fast
  • she doesn’t have any experience

I want to switch over to Chrome, but she is still too young :P

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full story at sitepoint

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Along with the CADIE they also launched Chrome 3D. And this even works. Check the following screenshot:

chrome 3d

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A few days ago I had to update my FoxMarks addon to the new Xmarks.

Today I couldn’t log in on Smashing Magazine forum (or any other website) thanks to foxmarks xmarks. Yes, a browser restart fixed the problem but come on…

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It also offers to keep your saved passwords on their servers (encrypted), but I didn’t opt for that.

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Then the bad stuff began:

  • some pages looked weird. Probably Webkit doesn’t read a particular CSS correctly. But bothoth IE and FF do.
  • a minor bug with the refresh. It only happened on a particular page (http://www.loose.utt.ro/~oose/). Basically you have to hit F5 2 times to reload the page. Tested on 2 Chromes, each on a separate machine.
  • pages loading slowly. Again, I only compared it with FireFox which didn’t had this problem.

And it looks like surfing incognito doesn’t work so well on Facebook or Googel docs!

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Everything seems to work smoothly. Tabs can be dragged out of the main window to create a new one and back. The download manager is nicely integrated in a small bottom toolbar. Almost every toolbar that appears or disappears has a smooth motion tween.

A big difference from other current browsers is that each tab runs as a different process. Should one tab crash, it will not take all the rest with it.

There is good news for web designers. Chrome doesn’t have its own rendering engine; instead it uses Webkit (also used by the Safari browser). So it is one less browser to worry about.

As for its usefulness, although it is a breath of fresh air, Chrome is still in Beta. Firefox still has a huge advantage given by the use of add-ons. I can’t imagine not having Firebug or the Web developer toolbar among other things at my fingertips.

Google Chrome screenshot

Links

On a side note, I wonder how much traffic is sent to other “chrome” websites that have nothing to do with Google’s browser: www.chromebags.com (1st on Google for “chrome”), www.chrome.com, etc. I would very much like the next Google product to be named Ylipsis :).

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