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What is Your Favorite Web Browser?
Post 302246569 by Annihilannic on Tuesday 14th of October 2008 02:18:19 AM
10-14-2008
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I tried Chrome and uninstalled it after one day. I thought it was the worst browser I had ever used, like a giant step-backwards in browser development. "Simple" is not what I need in a broswer. I need "highly functional" "fun to use" "extensible" and "mature".
In fact, I was going to add Google Chrome as an option in the poll, but it was so bad, I thought we would get only one or two "novelty" votes and this was the only one.
In fact, I was going to add Google Chrome as an option in the poll, but it was so bad, I thought we would get only one or two "novelty" votes and this was the only one.
Remember it is only the first public beta.
I'm very impressed with it, love the minimal interface and the speed. I think the layout makes a lot more sense with the address bar being on the tab (where it belongs, logically). Despite being minimal, it has nearly everything I need in a browser. I use it 99% of the time on my work PC, but have stuck with FF3 at home for some variety. I like the default home page with the automatically maintained thumbnails of my most recently visited sites. I like the way when you search a very long page it highlights the parts of the scrollbar where matches are found on the page. The inspector is interesting, as is the internal task/resource manager. I like being able to drag tabs off the tab bar to create a new window, and then back on to it again. I like being able to resize text entry fields like the one I'm typing in now. I like the way form fields glow when they are focussed, and the way status bars and 'find' dialogs occupy minimal space and go away when they're no longer needed.
The only things I miss are some little things, like right-clicking on a page or image and choosing properties does not display it's size in bytes (can't find that anywhere!). And sometimes when you hit the back button when browsing a web page with frames it doesn't go back within the frame, but back in the outer context... but I suspect that bug will be squashed soon enough.
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