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Google Chrome (open-source google browser)
bicostp:
It's way too minimalistic for my tastes. There's nothing especially notable about it; it's just the illegitimate child of Gecko and WebKit. If anyone other than Google released it, nobody would care.
I can see this being part of a suite with Gears to blur the line between desktop and web applications*, but it's pretty unimpressive on its own. I'll stick with Firefox and Opera.
The little web designer in my head started screaming because it's just another browser to support and people will whine constantly if everything doesn't work perfectly with it. :(
* I really dislike web applications. I like being in control of my data, thankyouverymuch. I don't want it up on a server where anyone in that company can read it.
Be My Head:
The huge deal with this is the fact that Chrome starts a new process for every tab and every web application. So that if one crashes the others are unaffected. Personally, I find this uses far too much memory.
imagist42:
Having tried it out, it works impressively fast--to a point. Once you get past 6-7 tabs, Firefox generally outperforms it in terms of memory usage, and depending on how much memory you have, potentially speed. But like others have said, it's very minimalistic, and most of the handy features you've grown used to in Firefox or Opera are missing. Many of those features are not worth giving up for this increase in speed.
Also, having the tabs on the top bar is the most annoying thing.
Dimmukane:
I'm gonna chime in and agree with bicostp about user privacy real quick. It kinda worries me.
imagist42:
Well, the browser has that "privacy mode," where nothing you do while it's activated gets logged or recorded or whatever. Not sure if this prevents Google itself from spying on you during that time?
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