Abhishek Chatterjee Online

The Chrome hype is already building up now, thanks to the 'G' string prepended. I have actually shoved Firefox aside in favor of Google chrome (though I am pretty sure I am gonna go back some time later).

The features/traits I loved about Chrome:

1. Extremely quick startup time - even beats IE
2. Drag and Drop file upload - wow what a relief!!!
3. Clean clutterfree UI
4. Most visited pages thumbnails on the startup page
5. Application shortcut creation e.g. Now Gmail has its own shortcut on the desktop

Things that I hated:

1. No Google Toolbar! What the bloody hell??? Google Chrome without Google Toolbar?? Above all, when I hit toolbar.google.com, it asks me to get Firefox!
2. A dedicated status bar is missing.


I guess the likes are more than the dislikes I could summon. I will want to stick to Chrome for some time.

Jeez I am glad I am in WindowsForms development, otherwise now developing Chrome loving websites is another headache! By the way did they create their own rendering engine or used/stole from Gecko?


09/05/2008 02:30