Saturday, September 13, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Google Bandwagon
Sometimes Google has great ideas. Sometimes they buy awesome ideas.
Sometimes they try, and fail miserably (Orkut? Lively?).
Most of the time, they do it right, and things only fail because people don't like change, and would much rather stick with the established products, thankyou very much.
So how will Google Chrome, a new web browser, fare in the wild? With the beta released yesterday/today/a few hours ago/recently, there have already been people complaining that it's missing some 'vital features'.
Example: Ad Block. Thing is, it's beta, it was released hours ago, and it's owned by people that market ads. Why would they even build an ad block feature into their own browser?! I wouldn't expect ad block until closer to a final release.
Let's just talk about how Chrome compares to other browsers in its primary function - browsing pages. Some people claim it loaded pages slower/didn't load some pages, while others say that they experienced no such problems on the exact same pages.
In general speed tests on graphics heavy pages, Chrome beat Firefox and IE.
So for now, Chrome is both able to browse better and worse than Firefox, with both being better than IE.
Until there is an extensive library of plugins for Chrome as there is for Firefox, it won't be ursuping FF as my primary browser.
Sometimes they try, and fail miserably (Orkut? Lively?).
Most of the time, they do it right, and things only fail because people don't like change, and would much rather stick with the established products, thankyou very much.
So how will Google Chrome, a new web browser, fare in the wild? With the beta released yesterday/today/a few hours ago/recently, there have already been people complaining that it's missing some 'vital features'.
Example: Ad Block. Thing is, it's beta, it was released hours ago, and it's owned by people that market ads. Why would they even build an ad block feature into their own browser?! I wouldn't expect ad block until closer to a final release.
Let's just talk about how Chrome compares to other browsers in its primary function - browsing pages. Some people claim it loaded pages slower/didn't load some pages, while others say that they experienced no such problems on the exact same pages.
In general speed tests on graphics heavy pages, Chrome beat Firefox and IE.
So for now, Chrome is both able to browse better and worse than Firefox, with both being better than IE.
Until there is an extensive library of plugins for Chrome as there is for Firefox, it won't be ursuping FF as my primary browser.
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