Google Chrome is Here!
Google Chrome is up and ready for download. Anyone have any thoughts on it yet?
Update: Couple of quick thoughts after a couple of minutes of use in a Windows XP VMware session (so not full speed or "normal" use):
- Overall pleasant to use, minimalistic look and feel without missing anything huge for day to day browsing.
- Some sexy effects, ie: notice the find dropdown when you hit ctrl-f
- Nice and fast, though some people are saying that images are a bit slow. JS speed reported as uber-fast, but I don't see anything massive here myself in the sites I normally use.
- Right click -> inspect element is nifty, as is about:memory (notice it'll show memory use from other running browsers.
- Text entry fields are resizable.
- Some common plugins are supported (flash, quicktime, silverlight, etc).
- Flash plugin install happened "in browser" and didn't require any sort of restart.
- Any page can be turned into an "application" (runs in it's own window without url bar or browser controls) and have shortcuts added to the desktop/quicklaunch bar. This isn't like the mozilla solution for this which lets you run web apps offline.
- Browser tab dragging, removing, adding, etc all work nicely and niftily.
- Some obvious deficiencies:
- Windows only
- Missing some useful plugins that will prevent me from using it, most noticeable of all is missing Adblock-plus
- Support for more plugins would be awesome.
- Smooth scroll would be nice as well.
- In the minor tweaks department:
- I'd like to be able to tab down into the awesomebar.
- If you're really fast typing in a URL and hitting enter you could get the google search option if the "just load the damn url" option hasn't popped to the top of the awesomebar.
- Windows only