Google Chrome Review: first impressions not good
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: September 2, 2008 | 77 Comments
Well I have been waiting since yesterday to get my hands on Google Chrome, the search engine giant’s open source web browser. So I downloaded it from Google and then installed the software, and then decided to give Chrome a go. My first impressions are not that good.
So I then opened Google Chrome up and had a little play, and that was when I noticed the first of my problems. Firstly I could not find a button or logo to go back to my homepage, on further investigation it seems that you need to have your toolbar on for the Homepage button to appear.
Then there is the problem with my bookmarks which I imported from Firefox, for some reason I could not get them to show up. No matter what I tried I just could not find my bookmarks.
So what are your first impressions of Google Chrome?
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Sick of random Microsoft bashing. IE8 also runs all their tabs as individual processes rather than a single. This sandbox design is extremely intelligent, and google was right to implement it. They are however not gods, they are not Apple either. Just because they use something inventive and cool does not mean they came up with the idea or were even the first to the market with it. Do some research, and quit regurgitating random crap.
I posted about slow speed a few days ago. It was because I have “Google web accelerator” installed. Chrome become much faster after I uninstalled GWA.
I actually search in google for chrome is not that good and found your page. I don’t get it, yes it’s fast but drastically lacking in features.
You read all the google-fan-boys saying, “oh, wait till it has extensions, oh, wait till this that and the other” until…. you have firefox?
Firefox has it all for me and I don’t see the point in changing, I’m not THAT impatient that I find a speed increase of milliseconds that brilliant!
slow, primitive, seems like students project from first years of university. nice design and overal idea burned with slow tabs work, lack of customization and overal inconvenient use. sorry, this shouldnt be even called beta or released at all yet! shame for google giant.
excitement went with first breath
The only problem I’ve had with Chrome is that it is getting a huge amount of lag while using flash applications. Especially Pandora (which I’m always listening to) gets awful after a few minutes when the script stops responding. Happens sometimes too on IE, but it doesn’t happen after just 2 songs. I really like that crashing 1 tab won’t cause me to lose any other tabs however. And every other page loads faster.
What are you talking about, no home page button? When you first load up Chrome and it opens the options/config menu the option to show/not show the home page button is the second thing listed. Though the default should be with it there.
No problem with importing favorites though, I don’t know what’s up with you guys.
It’s my opinion that Chrome wasn’t quite ready to be released, but due to the leak, they said “screw it” and just put out the beta. It’s key to remember that it is a beta. Normally beta’s do not get such a huge user base so quickly, and normally only nerds use it, and fully expect bugs. Of course there’s bugs, it’s a new product. They’ll get hammered out in time.
Google Chrome Rocks!! The Looks are Great. Speed is Great. Lets keep our fingers crossed for some amazing updates.
I had no trouble importing bookmarks. I did a little rearranging and then presto, it was ready to go. I did have a problem on certain pages using the back button. When I would try to go back, I would get an error message and then it would be frozen. There aren’t mwny settings to adjust which makes it nice to work with but I don’t see any great improvements over Firefox.
Well, I was so excited to try chrome. For me this is something like Microsoft Office 200! You’re lost! (not badly).. I couldn’t get to the homepage! and the design may be very stylist but it gives me this unfamiliar feeling.
By the way, Firefox has this NEW CHROME THEME ! Go ChecK it out! Its cool!
I dint read all the comments down here but about the bookmarks, its working fine for me.
i have a small bookmark tab on the right of my tab window right now to open my bookmarks imported from firefox.
The problem i am getting from chrome is that most of the websites never open anymore. I have to continuously refresh the page for facebook and i never had a problem like this when i used firefox for the same use earlier. its kinda bugging now to keep hitting refresh.