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20081224010848: Google Chrome web browser

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  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome
  2. http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/09/reflecting-upon-chrome.html -an in-depth review including internals as 
    1. advanced XSLT support so good it "may actually kick start XSLT usage on the browser again" and 
    2. Google V8 optimization causing Javascript implicit "classes" to be automatically noticed & optimized for.

20081224010950: Early review of Google Chrome:
Beats Firefox & IE - get it!


20081224011106: Just installed it today and so far I'm loving it! 
20081224014301: Overall, and in numerous ways, it shows Google really gets what users really need! 
  1. 20081224011612: Notably faster!  Seems 2x faster than Firefox & IE.  Switching tabs takes 1/4 sec, not 1/2 (or sometimes much more) as it seems to in Firefox & IE.
    1. 20081224013211: For Zoho Sheet (and probably other complex apps), it feels 3x faster than Firefox and 10x faster than IE!
  2. 20081224011824: Clean GUI, actively working to make minimal waste of your screen real-estate.   I just hate tool-bar overload which comes with IE and even Firefox.  For what's constantly displayed, Chrome smartly cuts out everything non-essential.  For instance, 
    1. The address bar now doubles as the search bar, 
    2. the search searches your history (so you don't need buttons for common stuff), 
    3. even the status bar only appears if it's got something to show you.
    4. and you can create shortcuts (even desktop shortcuts) which opens a web application without say the address bar and other stuff which might not be needed. 
  3. 20081224011335: Tab browsing is great, except when you want to compare two or more tabs?  Then it's tonds of mousing, clicking and switching, back & forth, and no Alt-Tab to switch between them - what designers forgot when they fell in love with tabs.  Google Chrome to to the rescue!  Just drag any tab outside of the tab bar and it creates it's own window (and one ready for more tabs); and, get this, drag that tab back into another tab bar and it removes it from that window (closing the window if needed) and move it into the new tab-bar: in other words, you can drag a tab from any tab bar/window to any other tab/bar window (or to somewhere else to create a new window) -- utterly cool!  Finally the best of both words (tab browsing and seperate window-browsing, and integrated & interchangably!) -- Thanks Google, you get it!
  4.  20081224014505: Everything's going multimedia & JavaScript & AJAX, which sounds great, well until your web browser and sometimes whole computer slows down (or the entire web browser crashes), due to some bad web page which hoses up your whole session (until you start closing everything), and then you'll likely never find it, and, sure enough, it strikes again!  Agh!  Again Google Chrome to the rescue.  It includes a task manager.  So you can instantly spot those CPU & memory wasting culperates (web pages) messing up your whole session, and report 'em, fix 'em, and kill 'em.  Yeah.  Thans again Google, you get it!
  5. 20081224015013:  For years there's been almost limitless technology on the web to find the page you need (more search engines than anyone could remember), but what about finding what you need on that page??  
    1. IE's Ctrl-F (page find) was joke: you'd have to start thing and then also mouse (to be continued@@@) 




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