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08/14/2010: "Chrome"

Chrome is Google's own web browser. I've been using Chrome for the past week in place of my beloved Firefox, and I think I'm a convert.

I do a lot of multi-tabbed browsing, sometimes having a dozen tabs open at any given moment. The number one thing that bugged me about Firefox was the the whole browser would sometime lock up for a while when one particular tab would have trouble loading. I'm not sure if the problem is with JavaScript or Flash or vanilla HTML, but it was really annoying. Chrome uses a more compartmentalized programming model and doesn't suffer from this problem.

My only complaint so far with Chrome is that they decided to dispense with the normal pull-down menu model, at least on the Linux version. There are a couple of icons to get to menus, but they're not in the normal place I expect them to be.

One other curiosity is the similarity between the Chrome icon and the old "Simon" electronic toy. I can't see one without thinking of the other. You be the judge: