Chrome
June 1st, 2010, 7:46pm by JakeI searched, but couldn’t find, a Pyslent post about the Chrome browser. I did find an old gem presaging the creation of Chrome. So at the risk of redundancy, here it is. As you know, I’ve long been a Firefox holdout, barely touching Chrome on Mac or PC. But upon seeing Firefox suck up hundreds of megabytes of RAM, decided that was enough to give it a shot. Seems fine so far, after 20 minutes of use, although this experiment will end quickly if I can’t find a Chrome Flashblock extension.
Thing is, I feel some loyalty to Firefox. Used Mozilla back before it was a 1.0 product, even as its market share stagnated. Then I tried this Phoenix browser, which was the browser-only version of Mozilla (no usenet client, email client or page editor). After I few false starts, stuck with it through the Firebird and finally Firefox iterations, and cheered as it hit 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. As you probably know, I’m what I like to characterize as a stubborn early adopter– trying the new stuff early, then sticking with it after the rest of the world has adopted and begun to move on. Hence the Palm Centro. I’m still a Firefox fan, hopefully the next version will debloatify Firefox the way Firefox made Mozilla lean & mean. We’ll see.
June 1st, 2010 at 8:10 pm
I actually never installed Flash on Chrome for my work computer, and I’ve only ever missed it when following links to statcounter that you post :).
Install that chrometouch extension that Mike mentioned… it gives you the ability to drag-to-pan in large-sized flickr photos.