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Google Chrome Review

Highlights

Features advertised in the comic book:

  • Stable, quick, efficient.
  • Clean interface.
  • Open source (!).
  • Independent threads for each tab.
    • More stable.
    • Pop-ups contained in tab.
  • Better memory management.
  • Better debugging of plug-ins.
  • Huge test bed (automated testing against billions and billions of sample pages).
  • Independent rendering engine (Webkit).
  • Stratified security (user .. application elements).
  • Gears: extensible API.

Things I like

  • Speed.
  • Looks:
    • No title bar.
    • Maximum user space.
    • Default page rendering.
  • Access to history: start page, back button.
  • Omnibox (Omnibar?).
  • Default font size.
  • Great mouse feel:
    • + to open new tab.
    • Access to history.
  • Application shortcuts (security).
  • Keyboard shortcuts. Had to guess that there would be shortcuts.
  • Shift-ESC: Task Manager.

Things I don't like

  • Edit problems (wiki, Angel)
  • Few plugins or add-ons as yet. None of my Firefox favorites:
    • No-Script
    • Firebug
    • Weather
    • Foxmarks
    • Zotero
  • No linux edition now (maybe never?)

The Competition

  • IE
  • Firefox
    • Minefield (x64 version)
    • Prism (was Webrunner)
  • Opera
  • Safari (kissing cousins–they share Webkit)
  • sundry linux browsers

Some internals

Saulis.com:

  • about:version - obviously version information (also accessible by chrome-resource://about/)
  • about:plugins - obviously installed plugins
  • about:histograms - hey I love this one! don't quite know what this all means though
  • about:dns - obviously just some DNS stats
  • about:cache, redirecting to view-cache: - list of cached documents, each viewable in HEX!
  • view-cache:stats - stats for cached documents
  • about:stats - obviously just some stats
  • about:network - that's an awesome tool!
  • about:internets - oh, an Easter Egg of a kind? look at the page title - The Tubes are Clogged! ;))
  • chrome-resource:/new-tab/ - heh, a template for the empty tab page?
  • chrome-resource:/favicon/ - even favicons look like this in the Matrix ;)
  • chrome-resource:/thumb/http://www.saulis.com/ - this one generates the page thumbnails for the empty tab page
  • about:memory - nice memory stats
  • :% - yes, just this little bit crashes the browser, so don't try it unless you want to loose the opened tabs
  • about:crash - will display the default crash page banner
 
blog/chrome.txt · Last modified: 2008/11/05 01:02 by moleski
 
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