Chrome

Sep 02, 2008 21:43

I just switched to Chrome. So far, not too bad. The address bar is bigger than I'd like, but the total stuff on top is much smaller, and the status bar only shows up when it means something, which is nice. It makes the pages look bigger. I like the tabs on top thing, and the elimination of the file, edit, view, etc menus.
It's certainly faster than Firefox, although it seems to have some problems with videos.
I've changed the font to something terrible. The fact that I can change the font is fun, but probably more useless/problematic in the end; I can barely read this post as I'm writing it. Also, on my friends page, apparently it only affects my view of Harry's posts. Everything else is in Times New Roman.
The address bar itself has been modified in an interesting manner. When you type a few letters into it, it gives you the page you've visited most that has those letters in the address, then a Google search for those letters, then an address consisting of those few letters, and then some of the pages you've visited with those letters in the address, and then some other random pages that might be popular and contain those letters in the address. I don't really like it, because it returns six results and only six results and only three of them do you care about. Unlike in Firefox, you can't scroll down to see more results, only those six. There is an option to search your history for pages containing those letters, but then you have to go through your entire history. Not fun.

I'll stick with it for a while, but it might end up being a bit too quirky for me.
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