A few us have been using Chrome here in the office today a and first impressions are generally good.
I’m not going to run down the whole feature list, only what was obvious to me right away.
- Pages render at lightening speed, it feels faster than FireFox.
- Element inspector – a firebug style debug tool built in.
- Omnibox – makes sense to just have one input box in the top bar although I do keep entering URL’s without the HTTP:// which returns a google search. Habit I guess.
- Ability to drag tabs to a new or existing instance of Chrome.
- Crashes don’t kill the whole app, only the current tab.
- Easy install, imported bookmarks & history effortlessly.
- Speed dial – loved this in opera, nuff said.
- I haven’t come across any sites it has broken yet although I know there are some found by others.
- Bookmarking functions seem a little basic (thanks Rich).
- It looks and feels great!
Interestingly, it identifies itself as “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13“
I’m curious about the Safari bit, wonder if this matches the Chrome render engine most closely.
I have set it as my default Windows browser for now, will report how I get on.
