Google Chrome – First Impressions
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after a rocky start and some ancious moments where the download on the gears site did not work for me i was shown the path to the actual chrome download at www.google.com/chrome
so now that i’ve been checking it out for about 5-6 hours… what do i think about it. i kida like it. at first glance its fast (loaded my gmail inbox in under a minute. some said this was an unfair test so i tested it with hotmail and yahoo mail as well. pretty damm good)
the install was super fast. the download it self being only some 450kb or something like that.
very easy import of all my bookmarks and other info from firefox.
when i installed chrome firefox was already running so it prompted me to close the fox before it could import my settings. i wonder if it would have asked me if i did not have it running. ben over at his blog mentioned that it did not ask him but since then updated his post since i mentioned that it did prompt me.. but i wonder.. i will have to re-install and test it out.
i kind of like having the tabs above the address bar. and it it just me or does the tabs look more tab like on chrome?
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testing it across a few of my fav sites i didnt have any major problem. i did however run into some majoy issues in facebook. with their new redesign them like many other web 2.0 interfaces rely heavily on javascript and sadly alot of their js seemed broken to me in chrome. none of the little comment links in the feeds worked for me. - anyone else with this issue?
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No issues with FB for me..
That was SO my mistake about the prompt. I guess I just clicked a little too fast. Sorry about it, you don’t need to reinstall.
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@janusis: weird. i installed chrome on two computers and i have the same issue. are you using the new fb?
@Ben: cool. i figured it would be just plain weird for them to import everything without prompting you. thats just a BIG no no.