Chrome is Google's browser, and Blogger is Google's weblogging service, but Firefox is much better in the Blogger editing box.
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A new version of FireFox is coming out today. You can already test drive the latest pre-release already. I've been using Chrome since last year for 95% of my browsing needs because of the speed. I miss plugins, and there are also pages that render a bit idiosyncratically and AJAX apps which get…
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Just one of an avalanche of tedious blogosphere reactions to google chrome. This afternoon I was reading the comic book (at work, I confess, but I wasn't alone) and now I've downloaded it and this is written in it.
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Chrome Passes Firefox, Google May Pull Out Support: I stopped using Firefox around the 20th time it made me do something I shouldn't have had to do because it sucked as a browser. Firefox used to be my hero, now I regard it as somewhat dangerous, and I only use Google Chrome. My productivity has…
AFAIK Google purchased Blogger, so maybe its codebase contains non-Google code that interferes with Google's codebase?
BTW, here something fun a la Ted Stevens.
Enter this URL in Chrome:
about:internets
yeah, they really haven't done much with blogger since getting it, despite their upgrade and integration with google appds. i'll check that out.
Blogger is a real disappointment to me (so is Picasa). Google should have integrated/fixed them up after acquisition. Maybe that was their intention, but found the code base was crap and would have to be completely replaced.
Anyway, encouraging Google to fix/replace those two is a good thing... maybe they are already working on it? Anyone know?
For me, the real show-stopper in Chrome was that it doesn't appear to support RSS. Which is certainly a touch ironic coming from the company that owns Blogger, and should know a thing or two about RSS feeds.
Note that Chrome is very beta. Much more beta than most of Google's products (which they inexplicably leave as beta for years). They don't even have the Mac or Linux versions out. Expect a lot of changes.
However it does appear they are going pretty minimalistic. Even more minimal than Safari. So if you like all those Firefox plugins I don't think Chrome is for you.
They aren't even the first to basically sandbox each tab's Javascript. Expect other browsers to do that as well thereby diminishing some of the appeal of Chrome.
Note that Chrome is a WebKit-based browser. That is, it is based upon open-source code. The browser itself is open-source too. I imagine a community of developers will spring up in quick fashion - plugins and extensions will likely be not too far off in the future.
@Armchair Dissident: I suspect that they would prefer that you use their web-based feedreader service, and provide them with delicious statistical data and advertising eyeballs, rather than a dedicated offline software setup. I'm guessing that a mail client would be very much the same story. Some omissions are betaness, some are by design.