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====== Google Chrome Review  ======
[[http://www.google.com/chrome|Download the program.]]

===== Highlights =====

Features advertised in [[http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/|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).
  * [[http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95743|Keyboard shortcuts.]]  //Had to guess that there would be shortcuts.//
  * Shift-ESC: Task Manager.

===== Things I don't like =====

    * Edit problems (wiki, Angel)
    * Few [[http://www.mychromeaddons.com/|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 ======
[[http://www.saulis.com/29~google_chrome_about_pages|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