Chrome losing it’s Shine

Chrome was the pretty girl from afar, but when you got up close, and got to know her, the old girlfriend looked a lot nicer all of a sudden. She was always there for you, dependable, knowing how you like to do things, and you can dress her up nicely (with themes). Chrome is sexy, but flaky, and in this case familiarity may not breed contempt, but it does breed a little disappointment.

Google Chrome Adblock plugin

Chrome is fast and clean, but I do miss my adblock plugin. Before adblock, there were other solutions, putting advertisers in host files, for example. Another solution is using a specialized proxy, such as Privoxy.

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 [...]

Google Chrome Javascript Performance

I expected improved performance, but had to be genuinely surprised by numbers like these. V8 Javascript was 2.5 times faster than Firefox 3.0 and 22 times faster than IE 7.0. Wow.

Google Chrome Update - Java Plugin

Google Chrome is supposed to accept Java plugin. It currently requires Java 6, Update 10, which is a Beta release and may not be as stable as what you’re used to. You can get it here:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp
The Google help forum says you should get an option to automatically download the option, but I can confirm that [...]

Google Chrome Beta - First Impressions

On day 1 of Beta (or so I believe), it works fine, looks clean, and I had no major hiccoughs. Haven’t stress tested it yet, but had fun with all the cool new features. And they are VERY cool. Pretty good first outing Google, kudos.

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