I'm usually behind the times on this stuff, and I'm generally irritated at the factions who sit and salivate at the notion of a software being better than it's Microsoft counterpart...
(As a sidenote, I was upset when I got to work at the studio the other day and found that one of the guys had installed Linux on the office computer...I went from a man with very good, albeit not expert or programmer, computer skills, to a completely clueless dum-dum trying to navigate that nonsense, anti-establishment counterculture bullshit OS).
Anyway, being a stubborn asshole, I resisted Firefox for the longest time, until realizing, "Hey, this isn't so bad." I downloaded the new Google Chrome browser today at work, and so far, so good. Seems to run fairly simple and stable. Although I must admit, the absence of a status bar at the bottom is weird, and I don't know how I feel about that. Granted, when it's looking up websites downloading info, you get a status bar, but once complete it disappears.
Does anyone have an opinion on it? Any insider info I should know about?
Thursday, September 04, 2008
What do you fools think of Google Chrome?
2 comments:
Taking a principled stand against trendiness is reasonable, but denying the awesome power of Firefox is just silliness. I haven't tried Chrome yet and I don't know if I will, mainly because I find Google's various offerings to be less useful than whatever standard exists or altogether unnecessary.
I did a reinstall of Windows earlier this year and found that 20GB of space on my second hard drive had been inexplicably locked up and was no longer accessible. I had to install Kubuntu Linux as a second OS to recover that disk space and as someone who has wrestled and warred with Linux, I can state unequivocally that anyone who installs Linux on a public computer without making sure that everyone who uses said computer is fully prepared for using Linux is a fucking dick. Linux is fun for computer nerds, but that's really all it has to offer. I quit using Kubuntu when I decided that I'd rather not spend all of my time at my PC figuring out how to configure and use my PC.
I haven't been tempted by Chrome to give it a shot yet. Plus, I'm just now at a point where I use Explorer and Firefox on a 49-51 ratio basis. At this rate, I'll get around to Chrome when I'm 80.
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