Bring Me Up: The Geek: Bah to Google Chrome

Friday, September 12, 2008

Bah to Google Chrome

Alas the Google grid is growing. You all know about Google Chrome yet, and I should have posted earlier than now, but let's just say I'm not happy about Google Chrome.

I love Firefox. I don't want to worry about yet another possible browser; especially in terms of a web developer. There are already enough browser discrepancies to deal with, grrr!

However, I do like the idea of how the history cache works while the browser is open. Click and hold (or right-click) the Back or Forward button to go directly to a page far behind or forward in your browsing history.

I also like that you can zoom in and out of pages just by holding down the control key and the mouse wheel.

Yes, it has the keyboard shortcuts I enjoy on my Mac and I can use them easily across plaforms now..yada yada yada.

But this is where the bugs come in. Google Chrome is not Mac friendly. In fact, it is very buggy.

I also don't like that Google search can be made more private and secure only for those who decide to use Google Chrome.

I suppose one thing can be said...the bar has been risen for all other browsers and that is a good thing.