The almost compulsory Google Chrome post

September 3, 2008 at 5:23 pm

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view of Google's new browser

Google Chrome

Google Chrome was released yesterday for windows, and google have promised that Linux and Mac versions are in the pipeline. I downloaded it on my laptop and played about with it for around 1/2 an hour.

Initial impressions are that it is very fast and doesn’t seem to hang up on flash content quite as much as Firefox, rendering being very similar to Safari’s (being based off WebKit, this is to be expected), but I did not see anything really compelling that would make me switch to it when the Linux version comes out.

I’m sure that I will download the Linux version and play about with it when it finally makes it way out of the googleplex, but in this particular incarnation, I think that there is very little that it offers over firefox and safari - certainly nothing worth writing home about. Your opinion may vary from this depending on how important flash is to you, whether you run Linux, and whether you rely on Firefox extensions. Still it looks better than the IE8 beta in terms of memory usage.

Edit: Security vulnerability in Chrome has been found already.

As usual please post your thoughts on Google’s new baby below.

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Use Firefox

August 24, 2005 at 10:52 pm

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This web site uses standard web language as intended by Tim Berners-Lee , the inventor of the world wide web.

Web language is important because using it means that all types of “standard compliant” Internet software can display web sites the same way and no single software company will ever control the language the web uses.

Unfortunately Internet Explorer by Microsoft is not able to read all of the standard web language because they have forced web designers to use their own software’s proprietary language over the last ten years by dominating the “browser” market.

We think it is important to help reverse that trend and have decided to use the standard web language so unfortunately you may experience a degraded viewing experience using Internet Explorer.

Internet software should not try to use proprietary “browser language”, we owe it to future generations to ensure that “web language” prevails. That’s why it’s important to use a “standards compliant” web browser like Firefox. So that large companies like Microsoft can never take over the language of the web.
I like to use Firefox but there are many other W3C compliant browsers you could use.”

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