I installed Google Chrome today and I have to say I like it. I'm using it right now. I find it fast and - so far - reliable. Idiot / Savant at No Right Turn likes it too, but for the lack of ad blockers. A show-stopped for him, but I've never bothered with ad blockers as I most often don't read the ads anyway...though do occasionally see one that is genuinely interesting.
I like the address space also being the search space. You can either enter the name of the web site or the words you want to search on. Nice.
Each tab being a separate process really appeals to me. That is what multitasking is all about. We'll just to see if it scales well when you have a lot of active pages open. How much do the ones in the background get? Enough? What effect will they have on a resource hungry task on the primary page....or does it pre-empt all others?
It uses almost all the screen for what you want to see. Unlike MS IE and - to a lesser extent - Firefox, you don't loose a quarter of the screen to toolbars of various sorts and dubious utility.
The only niggle I have about Chrome so far is that I can't remove the web site I went to by mistake (a type - "herlad" instead of "herald") from my "most viewed" sites on the front page without wiping the history for at least the whole day if not all the history. Maybe I can...but I haven't worked it yet. I did manage to get of it by wiping out all the history. Wiping each of the last 6 days (imported from Firefox) didn't do it.
Bottom line, though.....is that I like Chrome. I like it a lot. It feels good. Now I just have to wait for the Linux version.
General Debate 06 October 2025
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