Category: ‘Technology’ · TangleBones
Chrome is Nice, But Beta
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.
Posts in Google Reader from Yahoo!’s MMA Experts Blog
Here’s what was waiting for me in my feed reader this morning:
- The Sun mocks Tito, Jenna and the little tike
- The Sun mocks Tito, Jenna and the little one
- Shamrock says brother beat Kimbo
- Rogers shreds Shamrock and calls Kimbo the ‘Black Yeti’
- Shamrock says brother beat Kimbo
- Shamrock says brother beats Kimbo
- Rogers calls out Kimbo, shreds Shamrock
I don’t know if this is a Google Reader problem or a Yahoo! problem, but none of my other feeds do this, so I’m presuming Yahoo! still has some work to do.
Amazon Discounts Reach a New Low
Oh Amazon, how did I live without your deals in my feed reader for so long? Such savings! Such convenience! And $0 off? Have you been reading my diary?