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Google Chrome

If you’re remotely interested in IT/technical news, I’m sure you’ve heard Google released their new Google Chrome web browser on Tuesday.  Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine which is also what is used by Apple’s Safari web browser.  Google does use a new JavaScript VM though which makes it a bit faster with JScript than Safari.

My first impression with the browser is pretty positive.  It really looks like Google is making progress towards a browser to capture the power of new web technologies and ideals.  The way it handles multi threaded tabs and sandboxes the web site is definatly a step in the right direction for performance, stability and security.  The biggest thing holding it back right now is lack of features gained through AddOns for Firefox.  It does offer some things Firefox doesn’t though out of the box.

Performance wise, it seems to be the fastest browser out at the moment:

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For me personally, there’s some hangups at the feature department with the lack of a Delicious AddOn and I’m pretty partial to FireFTP as well.

Firebug is huge and while there’s some nice developer tools in Chrome it isn’t quite right yet.

Some of the out of the box features of Chrome did appeal to me though and after some digging around came up with some Firefox extensions to capture that functionality.

• Incognito Mode = Stealther
• Download Status Bar
• Domain Highlighting = Locationbar2

With a few AddOns I’ve got most of the best features of Chrome in Firefox except the awesome process handling and sandboxing.  Based on my personal workflow, I can’t quite replace Firefox with Chrome yet but I do like where it’s going and look forward to it’s development.

After going to the the hospital yesterday complaining of chest pains, George Carlin died at 5:55 PM last night from heart failure.  Sad day indeed.

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