Blogging From Google Chrome

By Tommy Leung on 09/03/2008 in Life

I’ve been looking for an alternative to both Internet Explorer and FireFox. With the new releases of IE and FireFox, they have both gotten crappier–slower. So when I found out Google released Chrome–or some beta version of it–I downloaded as soon as I could. Now I am writing this post using Chrome. :)

I have only used it for a little bit. I tested from projects I was working on at work in it. I did find a problem with Flash that Safari also has except its even worse in Chrome. Flash’s Mouse.hide() doesn’t really work very well in Safari and it works even less well in Chrome. I have no idea why this is the case but, someone should really look into that–works perfectly in IE and FireFox.

Chrome is a lot faster than IE or FireFox. There is much less clutter. The design is clean and simple–very Googlesque. I have only visited a handful of sites and most worked flawlessly. I’ll probably continue to use Chrome for a while longer to see how it fairs against the other browsers. I’m hoping it turns out to be the browser I’m looking for: light-weight, fast, doesn’t crash, and works.