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Things I love about Google Chrome

(when i was searching for a pic to use with this post, I realized Chrome supported skins, which I haven’t known until now)

1. It’s SO fast Firefox can just hide in its little corner.
2. I love how they placed the tabs into the titlebar, it just saves so much space and is rarely problematic.
3. You can just drag a tab out of the window and make it its own window. It comes handy sometimes.
4. Open in new tab is the first item in the right click context menu, unlike Firefox where it’s second (after Open in new window). I think the placement is just superior in Chrome.
5. Why have a bookmarks menu when you can just list the bookmarks at the end of the Bookmarks toolbar? It’s just genious how they managed to save so much space on such simple things. After you start using it, you start wondering why all other browsers don’t follow this design.
6. There is no search input box, you just enter the search query into the address bar instead. Firefox has something like this but it sucks and it’s slow as hell. I do admit, however, that sometimes it sucks that Chrome tries to auto-complete what you type in into an address, so you have to press delete before enter to search for it. But this leads me to point nr. 7.
7. Just enter the first few letters of the URL, and if you’ve visited it before, Chrome will auto-complete it with the most probable match. Just press enter to browse to the site – unlike Firefox where you’ll have to press the down key first. Why??!

Of course there are some things I do not like about Chrome, but I can live with them mostly because Firefox is so damn slow:

1. No extension support.
2. No support for client SSL certificates (like for banking).
3. Not supported on Linux yet, which is a bit of a downside, but not so much for me. You can always use Opera on Linux, it’s still much faster than Firefox
4. JavaScript error console like in Firefox?? Can’t find something like that, so I still have to debug all my JS code in Firefox…

PS: This isn’t really a feature I use often, but I think Chrome was the first browser to support the “incognito mode”. It’s a mode where no history or cookies are saved (useful for porn, he he).

What do you think about Chrome? Are you still using Firefox, and are you thinking of switching to another browser? I appreciate your input.