After a few days working with Chrome, hits and misses.

Four days of Chrome. Needs a little polish, but has potential.


Googles Chrome is beta, and beta means (unfinished), but after a few days of using Chrome, it wanted to shine. And at times it did.

• Reporting sites that heavily used java to display, where screaming fast compared to IE7 and FireFox.


• I just loved the fact that i could uncouple the tabs from one Chrome application process to a new process and then reintegrate the two. Just drag the tab off into a clear desktop area, it's that simple.


• Incognito is a great idea, Great for Banking sites and places you want to make sure your internet tracks don't get left hanging around.


• The Super Omnibar (Address and Search combined) Made moving around my address navigating simple and easy to use, with my bookmarks showing stars as I typed away. What it does is language match what your typing. Try two words or more for searches as they pattern match googles keywords with higher success than singles. Sites match as you type the domain names.

• Easy access to clearing browsing data, just under the tool wrench is handy


• I actually find the thumbnails really handy, and with them showing on any new tab creation, it was super fast to load up all my sites.


• Application shortcuts on the desktop are great for applications i want to make sure I've closed after use. Also they start in it's own process.


• The downloading engine, different as it is was a little more responsive

Now I don't like a couple of things,

• The fact that any site that has cert issues, screams the red wall of google warning.


• Hotmail makes me click the continue using unsupported browser link


• Saving password are open to anyone walking by an unlocked computer within a few clicks and the don't submit the form on use in some cases that all worked great with my SSO integrated with IE.


• For all the bloggers out there, drag scrolling isn't working. When you try to scroll in a text box by draging to the bottom of the window and have the rich edit control scroll, well it doesn't.
• Rendering isn't 100% as the example is from this site, the two link lists (blogger widgets) have no style float attribute but are acting like they do.

Overall this has potential, it's a pretty great first version release, with some cool new ideas, different takes on older ones, and polishing others. Now fit in some way to integrate some Firefox tools than it's going to rock the browser world.