September 4th, 2008 by Jemaleddin Cole

I’m really liking Google Chrome, the new browser for Win­dows (Mac and Linux some­day!) from everyone’s favorite Inter­net stock. Of course, like any Google prod­uct it’s a beta release, and likely to stay that way for the next 4-5 years. But some­how I feel like there may be some things that are too beta.

When you view a feed in most modern browsers, you either get a code-​highlighted ver­sion of the XML or a nice XSLT-​modified view of the feed as a web page. Google Chrome gives you this:

Which isn’t ter­ri­bly help­ful. By com­par­i­son, the browser whose engine they used for their ren­der­ing code, Safari, gives you this:

Which is only about a mil­lion times nicer. 

Still, Chrome is pretty nice, all things con­sid­ered. It may not be faster than Firefox,  but it feels like it is because it isn’t loaded down with add-​ons. Of course, that’s the other prob­lem: no way to extend the browser means no ad-​blocking. And I don’t imag­ine that Google plans on putting out a prod­uct that blocks their major rev­enue stream. So I’ll inevitably be switch­ing back to Fire­fox. Again.

Update: Also insuf­fer­able: the built-​in dic­tio­nary doesn’t seem to have any way to add new words, so my name will always be red-​underlined until they fix that. Sigh.

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One Response to “Chrome is Nice, But Beta”

  1. I have to agree…it’s nice, but there are some things Google just don’t need to be trying to get their grubby giant mits on.

    If your look­ing for some­what of a boost in page loads try OpenDNS.org. All ya got to do is change the DNS servers your router got from DHCP to the ones that OpenDNS pro­vides. It does actu­ally seem to be load­ing pages a frac­tion faster then Broad­stripe (AKA: MDM). It uses Any­cast to deter­mine distance…I have used it for a long time.

    It’s also useful in attempt­ing to thwart those pesky kid­dies from look­ing up the most deli­cious of web good­ies such as pron and the likes…mmmmmmmmmm pron, how you tempt me…plus there is prob­a­bly a higher level of secu­rity then on your local ISP’s DNS servers.

    P.S: Maybe the browser knows your not black…thats why your name is in red, it’s con­fused. I would change my name if I were you. Haha. :^P

    — Clinton Moore September 5th, 2008 at 4:12 pm #