alecs » tech 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 2 great talks http://www.ylipsis.com/blog/2009/03/2-great-talks/ http://www.ylipsis.com/blog/2009/03/2-great-talks/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:00:26 +0000 alecs http://www.ylipsis.com/blog/?p=218 Check the following youtube videos:

Get Rich or Die Trying – Making Money on the Web the black hat way

Google I/O ’08 Keynote by Marissa Mayer

They are both pretty long (1 hour each) so be prepared with some pepsi and popcorn :)

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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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