Chrome experience
Like half the world probably did today, I also installed Google’s new browser.
They promised it to be fast but in comparison to FireFox 3 (and of course Internet Explorer 7) it seems lightning fast. I don’t know what causes this but I guess it is also reinforced by how quick all menu’s and tabs pop up. In the end, they can only control part of how fast a page loads.
It’s astonishing though how good sites still look. After using it for a few hours I haven’t found any deviations in site layouts between FireFox and Chrome. If you made the same comparison between FireFox and a new Internet Explorer most developers started to cry.
One remark though: as I already said, I need a dual-display in which I maximize windows and Chrome for some reason can only be maximize across both screens.
Edit: some Facebook JavaScript also does not seem to work. I guess this won’t be an urgent one ;-).
Almost perfect.
Although, as a developer, I can’t be extremely thrilled with a new kid on the block, in the end I must admit it looks like it will make many people’s web experience more fun. And since their zero pagerank site now is on top of their own search engine results (above much higher ranked sites) I guess it’s market share will steadily grow in the next weeks.
