Chrome

[ellarien]

http://www.google.com/chrome

It's a browser, more or less. No adblock, no custom CSS, no RSS support, won't run my favorite (elderly) Java applet. Fails less at importing bookmarks than early Safari, at least. Stretchy text boxes is a nice gimmick, but not something I felt any great need for, and I'm not sure what a "Web app" is for.

More worryingly, it seems to block some or all access to the web for other browsers open at the same time; I've tried this with both Opera and Firefox, under Vista.

And, of course, it's only available for Windows. Time will tell how many of these limitations go away eventually; it's only a beta, after all. For now, I'm sticking with Firefox.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay. "It's only available for Windows"* = I don't even have to think about it.

*even though it's open-source? What are they thinking? They must know that anyone interested in open source runs a Linux box...

[ellarien]

It does seem strange, but it may make sense to them to go after the largest segment of the market first -- or to go head to head with Microsoft on their own turf, I suppose. It will be interesting to see whether they come up with a Linux version later.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Someone else had this to say:
http://www.edrants.com/google-chrome-is-bad-for-writers-bloggers/

The excerpt I saw from this was some EULA text that said they own everything that goes through them, forever, in every way.

[ellarien]

That seems to have been fixed (link via charlies_diary.

And there's apparently a Mac and a Linux version in the works.