Google Chrome - I’m lovin’ it

I’m using Chrome now. For me it’s like a specialty tool. When I’m working on my SEO effort, building sites, marketing and promoting them, I use Flock. It’s got great built-in feature and lots of Firefox add-ins that support the social bookmarking world to a tee. But suddenly i’ve got that horrific browser interface I’d always denigrated, so much junk cluttering up the screen, there’s little room left for the browsing info.

Flock toolbar mania

Enter Chrome. It loads almost instantly. It knows where I probably want to go and loads those pages so fast it’s dangerous to blink. Flash and Java seem to work fine for me. Javascript runs like lightning and, heaven forbid, if I want to go to any sites that I’d rather not let the world know about, incognito browsing is just a click away, and I can hide all traces, without erasing all the history and cache from the stuff that I’m doing for a living.

Browser’s have become bigger and bigger Swiss Army Knives. When the plugins first came in, and we all were wondering which technologies were going to win out, our browsers were still sleek, but a little brittle. Then they grew larger and larger, with more and more features to get lost in. Add a few plugins, and you were suddenly creating a monster, that could take forever to load.

Our Early Browsers

Flock Browser, out of control

But sometimes all you want is a knife. For now, I’m playing around with a new, shiny, sharp one!

Google Chrome - Now that's a knife

Yes, Google Chrome does not do everything. I miss some toolbar action, and some of my social plugins. But when all you want to do is surf the web, and not track everything you do, tweet all your sites, build your stumbleupon status, or any of that junk, Chrome browses just fine, thank you.