02 Sep
Google Chrome
I’m sure you didn’t miss the hype about Google Chrome. I just installed it within a Windows VM (using Parallels on my Mac) and it feels… incredibly fast! I’m impressed.
I really like the website thumbnail tiles used as home screen (but I’ve been told that feature has been “borrowed” from Opera). And then… the browser is reduced to what you really need. Very nice indeed.
Nevertheless. I’ll keep using Firefox.



What became very obvious on my first test is that Adblock is missing.
“I can see dead banner ads!”
Did I mention Mozilla’s Tracemonkey is faster than Google’s V8 engine? http://brendaneich.com/2008/09/tracemonkey-update/
That’s interesting. I’m looking forward to the release of Firefox 3.1, then.
There are two Firefox extensions that can do the whole tiling thing too: http://lifehacker.com/5044518/enable-chromes-best-features-in-firefox