Google Chrome
Its a first for Your Face and especially me. A tech review. Not about a game, or a gadget, an actual piece of software. And guess what? I don’t like it.
Basically, Google like to corner all markets and have decided to release an internet browser, ‘Chrome’. From this name I kind of expected a pimped out version of Safari, but not quite. Chrome uses different parts of the main 4 browsers, Safari, FireFox, IE and Opera and smashes them all together in a strange jumble. Text highlights and spell checks as you go a la Safari, the tabs are much like Firefox and the menus are hidden away in a strange under-the-covers world like Internet Explorer. Its as slow as Opera, unwieldy as Internet Explorer and frankly, I think its ugly.
I’ve used it non stop for a week now and I still manage to close my tabs repeatedly as they’re in a weird place and my eyes are distracted far too often by the massive swathe of blue at the top.
I said Tech review, but often techie websites never really tell you whether you should use things or not and whether the average user will enjoy it on a basic level. So, this is more of an aesthetics review.
Google Chrome looks cheap, is slow and steals from superior browsers. I see absolutely no reason why you would want to replace Firefox with this. On a plus, the logo does look like a Poke-ball which means it gets one cool point. But that is it.
1 Ash Ketchum’s out of 5 Google. Must try harder.