For best viewing, use chrome
As you should know, Chrome was released last night at 12 am GMT. It was announced 2 days ago much to the surprise of most (though there were rumours, there was no actual proof of its existence). Many people have now taken the plunge, downloaded it, and tried it out.
My experiences have been almost completely without problem. There was a small problem on grooveshark.com where I could not use the spacebar in flash, but that could have been flash acting up instead of Chrome. I just tried it out again, I think it is Chrome, good thing there is a bug report link built in so I don’t forget to report it this time.
Oh ya, and for websites that use a lot of javascript, there currently is nothing faster (could be because you [I] have extensions for firefox running, which need to be processed as the pages load). Oh… and the Wordpress backend is wicked fast now (thanks to Chromes speed and the new “Turbo” feature that uses google gears incorporated into Wordpress’ backend).
Sorry Gavin and co, it is only available for Windows for now
September 4th, 2008 at 5:07 am
I think it is HILARIOUS what this is doing to the Firefox community. They used to say “Those IE bigots - don’t want anyone else using any other browser!” And now they are freaking out because they are losing people to Chrome.
I can’t wait until Chrome comes to Mac. My favourite feature is that when a tab crashes, the rest of the browser is unaffected. Firefox crashes my whole computer!
I already know I’m totally switching when Chrome becomes available to Mac. I’ll miss Greasemonkey, but not that much. I’ll still use FF for development though, because Firebug rocks!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Funny thing, google is still paying Moz developers 12 million dollars per year until 2011… Firefox is not loosing people who use it for development, they are just loosing the people who use it for day to day browsing, I will use chrome for that too, but for development nothing currently beats Firefox.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Besides, Firefox 3.1 has already proven to be faster than Chrome at Javascript rendering. In the end, it will all be what you prefer, I like Chrome’s simplicity more than anything else at the moment, and it is using Webkit, which could mean that I do not need to use Safari for Windows, which is complete and utter crap, for testing (sort of) , happy days!