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If you are a Google Chrome fan owning a Mac, you probably want to go here and sign-up for the Google Chrome for Mac news update, and get instant notification once the Mac browser version is out (in Beta ofcourse :)

In their words “Google Chrome for Mac is in development and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible.” I am really glad to hear about this, but I hope it’s not the reason PC Chrome is not getting good enough attention.

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If you’ve been using Google Chrome recently, and for Windows users I don’t see a reason why you shouldn’t minimally at least, you may have noticed the problem when you try to save an image with a different than current image name. Problem is, if you rename the image to say “Mars” and click save, it will get saved as the image name, concatenated to the file extension without the dot separator, e.g. “Marsjpg”, which ofcourse would forbid you from automatic Image opening with default Image Browser.

Now this is a known bug that’s been reported since Sept 4th, and it’s still marked as Uncofirmed. I’m not sure why such a simple obvious bug is taking so long. Perhaps Google was depending too much on open source developers help, not sure. But 1 month is long enough to confirm an obvious issue. Those delays would make people lose faith in Chrome, and stop taking time reporting future problems.

Since the bug seems to take long to fix, the quick and simple work around for you and me is to write the full image name with extension, “Mars.jpg”

I can just imagine the developer working late at night to finish the Save Image As feature, and he goes something like return file_name && file_extension, forgetting the dot separator. Perhaps a refreshing Pepsi would do. Works for me :).

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Google Chrome was released in Beta last week, and really made a serious buzz in the web. Some say it’s nothing serious, other presume this will make the base for future web browsers. I incline with the latter opinion. Either ways, one thing all agree upon is the browser speed. Some new experience lies in there.

Fully tested products are never as good as hoped for however, no need to mention Beta ones. Google Chrome was hit with several vulnerabilities (more here, and here). Google recently started spreading the release to small groups quietly according to CNET, and people can check for updates by clicking the wrench icon in top right corner of the browser, and then click about Google Chrome. Strangely enough, my browser is already up to date, and I don’t recall updating it!

According to CNET, 0.2.149.29 is the latest. Snce Eienstie proved time is relative, perhaps I downloaded a copy of the future by chance few days earlier. Anyways, I know you don’t believe me. It’s OK, no offense taken. If you are using Chrome, you should go and do that now.

The fix also resolves a silly browser crashing problem once you type “about:%” in the address bar. Because my browser is already updated, I was denied the joy of watching Chrome crash for the first time! Also, Google says they have fixed some issue with Javascript that could affect the Facebook experience. Wonder if that’s got something to do with Zoho as well, as I notice frequently the site freezing :(. Not sure if it’s browser or server issue though yet.

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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).



 

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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