One would thing I’m juts saying this out of faboyism, but I woke up today (without washing my face) for my routine email and sites check up. I started Firefox, and suddenly I had this strange feeling the browser is not fast enough, and I could be using some better. Immediately, I closed Firefox, launched Google Chrome, kept using it for the rest of the day. You won’t find a match anytime soon when it comes to speed. Occassionaly, the CPU was running intesively, but that’s only occasionally, and for what in return? 

 

Using Google Chrome makes me feel like I just upgraded my DSL connection. Doing my regular heavy day use on various sites, I can’t recall any issue so far regarding site support. Also, as I imported the Firefox bookmark, I realized Google Chrome takes an extra mile in identifying your Bookmark Keywords.

 

 

As you can see, it identified the letters “ut” which I bookmarked previously as YouTube Search, and once I write anything after ut, like “monkey island”, it signals we are searching this specific site. Cool hah!

 

Some Mac users are holding up until the Mac version comes. I tell you, you gotta give this a try.

 

Further review of Google Chrome here.

 

UPDATE: As I finished writing this article, I came across few things:

  1. An old version of WebKit used in Google Chrome has been found vulnerable already that would, with little social engineering, allow malwares to be downloaded onto user’s desktop, and get executed without user permission. Demonstration of this hack has been made public. When I read about how each tab is a process, and how it can talk deeper to the OS than regular browsers, I freaked yesterday for a moment. But then I thought the Google Chrome sandbox is safe enough to forget about it. Below is a snapshot of how with Google Chrome, a website can ask for permission to create desktop icon for Remember The Milk (which brilliantly uses Google Gears by the way).

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    I don’t think creating desktop icons is possible with other browsers. Is it?

  2. Google Chrome work with Flash but not JAVA! :(. This is one thing that would make me open another browser. But then again, I’m not thinking about abandoning Firefox. I would miss all the great extensions it has. No one can compensate it! I had to open it today to use the color picker ;)

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