understanding browsers

[chronovore]

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project: so cool, it has its own comic book by Scott McCloud.

Comments

[professormass.livejournal.com]

Chrome is more of the same old crap. The essential problem with the Web is the Web -- people stacking onto a broken foundation.

Don't worry, though. I've figured out how to fix it.

[nattotastic.livejournal.com]

in all honesty, google marketing generally makes me facepalm but google chrome looks pretty neat. The "one process per tab" idea is good, but I thought that Firefox already did that. I really like the "built-in task manager" thing and their testing process of checking against their own ranking system is a great use of a pretty obvious resource at their disposal. The redone javascript engine is interesting also. I'm a bit more skeptical about that one, we'll have to see how it goes.

[nattotastic.livejournal.com]

So, I downloaded the beta and have been using it all day. I like it, but have two super-minor issues with it:
1. Doesn't remember user-entered data. Firefox rules the school with that feature. It's necessary for my line of work.
2. No title bar. Page titles are in your tabs, which is interesting but when you have a lot of tabs open, you can't read the title in the focused tab because it's size is a fraction of the overall width times the number of tabs. Nobody cares about this except me.