Home Computing, Webmasters - by Yen on Thursday, September 4, 2008 18:07 - 0 Comments
Google Chrome (Beta) Released
September 2, 2008. Googleplex, Mountain View, California. A beta version of Google’s very own browser, Google Chrome, was released for Microsoft Windows. Yes, with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Browser, Apple’s Safari, etc.. we now have Google Chrome.
And so I eagerly downloaded Google Chrome and tested it out. Installation was a breeze. Importing bookmarks, history and settings from my Mozilla Firefox was a breeze. All my imported bookmarks were filed into the folder “Imported From Firefox”. Neat.
So now I want to move the bookmarks into the root folder as well as to move my Firefox “Bookmarks Toolbar” items into the “Bookmarks Bar” folder in Chrome.
And so I ….. from all that I had tried, there is currently no way to do that. In fact, Google Chrome does come with any bookmark manager. Ok, maybe it’s just Beta.
The next thing I had in mind; I have tonnes of custom GreaseMonkey scripts installed in my Firefox browser. Some I can do without, some are really essential. And so inside Google Chrome ….. a search on Google reveals that Chrome does not support add-ons as Firefox does. Some even say that Google have no plans to support add-ons on Chrome because add-ons such as Ad-Block is capable of blocking Google’s advertisements. It’s not official. Maybe the feature will be added later. Ok, maybe it’s just Beta.
And so, nevermind. I’ll just go check out some sites and see just how fast the pages are loading. (Nearly all the reviewers praised Chrome for its speed.) What about checking out some of my RSS bookmarks. And so ….. nada. Google Chrome does not import RSS bookmarks from Firefox. In fact Google Chrome does not automatically recognize sites with RSS feed. Ok, maybe it’s just Beta.
“Just click on the damn RSS links lazybum!”, I told myself. Since it was a Joomla! site, there were links for RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, ATOM 0.3 and OPML. And so I click on each and every link and ….. all I get was raw text without any formatting or indentation. Ok, maybe it’s just Beta.
As a web developer, I originally intended to test Google Chrome for CSS and Javascript compability with other browsers. But then I realize that Google Chrome is just what it said it is – Beta.
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