IT’S STILL IN BETA FOR GOD SAKES….

I’ve praised Google for a very long time now and their company just keeps pushing forward. I was however, reluctant to go Chrome, because I do love Firefox so very much.It’s been good to me where IE5-7 have just made me disgusted, IE needs to wake up and crawl out of the middle ages of the internet already, because what it’s done so far has just made me tuck tail and run. I’ve looked at the beta for IE8 and it looks nice and all, but I’d stick with FF2 if three hadn’t come out already.

Back to Google Chrome, the fact that there aren’t add ons or Skins for chrome so far isn’t Google’s problem, it’s ours. They gave us open source code to work with. It’s been a week. There should be some stuff moving by now, but code monkey’s don’t really know how to use it yet. (No offense, I praise the monkey’s.) Just give it some time and Google will have the same sort of Add-on basis that our beloved Firefox has, they’ve already stated that in the cool comic they made. It’s all about the future with Google, and I for one am thus impressed.

For now FF3 is still my primary browser, because it has everything that I use already incorporated, but Chrome has amazing potential. When Chrome One is finished I’ll be switching it to my primary. There’s nothing it wont have that I want.

And as far as 1 process per tab, once you run into an issue with one page crashing and actually NOT crashing your whole browser this approach seems almost necessary. Plus it creates a lot less opportunity for memory leaks that are so prevalent with Firefox.

I suspect once Google Maps is Gears-enabled (surprisingly, none of Google’s sites seem to be that way yet), we’ll likely see a significant boost in performance.

Otherwise, it’s my favourite browser for other features (based on an hour of use), and Gmail in GC runs fater than IE.

It does seem however to be thrashing the disk for no reason I can see sometimes, and CPU use can go above 50% with it just sitting there in the background.