Well, the Chrome is..
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fast at rending, at least what I have thrown at it so far. All my sites appear as they should. For Chrome itself though, I will be glad to see new skins come available as it is ugly at this point with the flat blueish-gray appearance. The built in spell checker is handy though. When it imported the bookmarks it did not keep the order but instead sorting them, yuck! For me it is a bit lacking. For some time now, I have gotten use to IE 7 and already miss a few things. One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly. I have a good list of search sites such as Amazon, Answers, Google, MS Live Search, YouTube, eBay, AllRecipes.com, and the list goes on. Really handy feature in IE 7. Also does not contain RSS Feed handling. Have enjoyed that being built in to IE 7. No big surprise, Silverlight does not work with it. Flash appears (to some people) to have quirks also under Chrome.
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Doubtful on the skin and RSS fronts. The browser is meant to be as bare-bones as possible to be as fast and stable as possible. No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
One is the search box in IE where I can select the sites to use for search quickly
Have a look here[^]and here[^] - their search engine selection is through a keyword/URL typed into the address bar. For example, to search on your default search engine, you'd use "? codeproject". Must admit I only ever use Google, but I ought to see if I can set up shortcuts for Amazon UK, IMDB, AllMusic and Wikipedia, as those are sites I search in regularly.
Yeah, shortcuts not near as useful as the search box in IE. It is nice that when you visit some sites, such as Answers.com, there search code will appear in the list in the Search Box and you simply click to add them. Win I first started using IE again (had moved to FireFox until I went to Vista 64 Ultimate) I was annoyed by the search box being there and did not want it on the bar. After I found out how useful it is, hard to live without it ;) To me it is a lot like the scroll wheel on my mouse, went a long time before I started using it and after that I not only used it all the time, but converted others :)
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Doubtful on the skin and RSS fronts. The browser is meant to be as bare-bones as possible to be as fast and stable as possible. No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
In other words, useless!
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Paul Watson wrote:
No extensions, minimal plugins, little customisation, no extraneous features.
In other words, useless!
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: More on Windows Live Writer..
I wouldn't go that far. As has been pointed out Chrome is more like Fluid; a shell for web-apps to sit on the desktop. Those need to be stable, fast and minimal. Also I think Google favors "extension" of the browser through sites using Gears, not by users installing extra packages into their browsers. I can see the promise of that but at the same time some limitations. There will always be place for Firefox on my desktop when developing sites but I'd like a fast, stable browser for my banking site or GMail etc.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.