Posts Tagged “Chrome”
After reading a short Tech Crunch Story about Chrome vs. Firefox market share I found myself thinking, who cares about this? For years there has been a push by developers and supports of open standard pushing Firefox over Internet Explorer, mainly because Microsoft was trying to control the web via their own standards by not supporting Open Standards and pushing their own versions of HTML, Javascript, etc. Personally I think the more browsers there are the better, just as long as they all support the standards.
That is why proposed “battle” between Firefox and Chrome that TechCrunch is pushing does not really exist. They are both excellent browsers and both support the Open Web-standards. So does it really matter to anyone beside Google and the Mozilla Foundation which browser has a larger market share? I don’t think so.
For me this is the future of computing, a completely open set of standards and technologies that make the type of computer, phone, web browsers, tablet you are using irrelevant. They all talk to each other and work.
Well it’s been a few weeks now since I starting using Firefox for everyday browsing and I have to say it is currently unusable for multimedia web use. Here are a few of the things I have noticed in my time using it.
After using Chrome for just a few weeks I have already become accustom to the great address bar functionality it provides. With just one address bar where you can type addresses, searches, without thinking about it is a great thing. Now I am using Firefox 3.5 again I started searching for ways to duplicate the functionality and found something a little disturbing.
It seems that Google has already patented that functionality, and I am not sure how I feel about that.
First I hate patents on basic
One of the first things I noticed about Chrome after moving from Firefox is the lack of the quick search box. At first I thought I would miss this alot because I use the quick search box in Firefox all the time. However Chrome’s address bar is more intuitive and powerful than Firefox’s and does the job of address and quick search box perfectly well.
In Firefox when you start typing you get a list of suggestions from your history and bookmarks. But you have to physically select an item from the list using the arrow keys and enter, or the mouse.
I have been using Firefox forever, but I just decided to give Google Chrome a real shot to see how I like it. And my first impression of it is the awesome speed. All the PR about the speed of Chrome seems to be true in my limited subjective experience with it. Just browsing all my normal websites I see a noticeable display time improvement. JavaScript heavy pages (i.e. Gmail) in particular load very quickly. Even graphic heavy pages seem to load more snappily.
The release of Chrome is just great for all of us. Now that web standards are starting to become well… standard, for all browsers except for IE, the more browsers the better. With Chrome, Opera, and Safari all focusing heavily on performance Firefox is already starting to follow suite.
Chrome is good so far, and I hope it keeps moving along.
