Yeah, I actually fired up Parallels for the first time in recent memory and downloaded Chrome and used it for a few hours today. Nothing there that particularly blows me away about it. It seems a bit slow, but I assume that’s due to running it via a VM. Most people seem to say it’s pretty fast. Lack of menu and really minimal controls and options is a bit offsetting to me. I like minimal in a UI, but I like to have access to as many options as possible, even if it’s hidden away somewhere. It doesn’t seem like there’s much I can change here at all.
I know there’s a lot under the hood – tabs running in different processes, etc. I like the developer menu and “stats for geeks” features. That could be really useful. And the performance features are something you get a feel for after days and weeks of using it.
But otherwise, nothing there worth running Parallels all day for. I’ll check it again when it arrives on OS X. Looking forward to running it natively and seeing how it feels.
yeah, you should definately try it natively (well,in case you´re mac only then that´ll maybe take a while), performance and stability has so far been really nice to me.
Its things like one tab not slowing down the other or still beeing able to nicely interact with the rest of the site even if there´s a heavy plugin content sitting in it (scrolling the html page with a flash item somewhere in it for example works much smoother, just as small example), having seperate processes for tabs,plugins etc seems to be great really. I also like the various comfort features like having new tabs be auto populated with the most visited stuff for quick access or being able to drag tabs out of a window to make a new seperate window. Haven´t gotten to try the incognito surfing mode yet but that sounds cool,too.
A few CSS and JS related things don´t work as they should yet but most sites i tried worked fine and seemed to perform noticably better, i think its a great start.
I think I’m actually going to move towards using Chrome and Firefox. Chrome is great for running multiple gmail instances, google reader, google docs, etc. These javascript apps are blazing fast in Chrome. My only complaint so far is I can’t control where new tabs open when I click a link. I like them to open at the end of the tab list, but Chrome opens them beside the tab that triggered the new one.
But I’ll be keeping Firefox as my workhorse browser. I just can’t live without things like Firebug and many of the other various and very useful extensions I have.
Oh, it’s so nice to have a fast performing piece of software. But… just once it’d be neat of they’d release something in a more finished state. Yeah, yeah,… beta but the problem is that most normal people won’t put up with even one deal-breaker. For me, I can barely stand Chrome because it lacks the ability to quickly grab RSS feeds; the bookmark management is non-usable (think “we’ll do the thinkin’ for ya”); and there’s no delicious plugin.
It’s sad because it’s so nice in many ways.
I’m on Chrome right now.. I’m surprised at how fast it is! The bar has been raised Mr. Firefox!
I think this is not a browser as we are used to see.
I use opera … and firefox of course.
I hope that google are not tring to move user to use his services.
Chrome has no menues and no droop downs, you cannot store your bookmark, interface is not so “furnisced” in this version but we can whait.
Can you play a video in youtube and see the same time a site in flash without having disadvantages?
The tab on top is quite like a BeOs operating sistem.
I appreciate the go textbox in each tab (more understandable for me and my parents too).
I will ceque future releases… I am curios about having a file share machine in my browser and i will feel mighty and dreadfull iff at least half of the whole bounch of functionality listed by google will be implemented.
Hi there,
IE7 / 8 and Ffox are real ram memory eaters, chrome is not. That is really helpful for consumers running the web on consumer-machines. You can place your bookmarks on the upper panel tough, a lot of people don’t know that.
I like your code-driven-animation books, keep up the good work, cheers from amsterdam.
– marcin