{"id":1487,"date":"2008-09-03T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T02:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2008-09-03T22:55:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T02:55:28","slug":"browser-neepery-2008-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/browser-neepery-2008-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser Neepery 2008 Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, like all the other serious geeks, I’ve been playing with Google Chrome<\/a> for a the last couple of days.<\/p>\n

In general, I like it–it’s fast, and there are lots of nice little UI bits that I quite like, plus the deep nerd in me likes the multi-process architecture and the built-in memory profiling, etc.<\/p>\n

However there is absolutely no chance that it will become my general purpose browser.<\/p>\n

Why, you might ask?<\/p>\n

The answer, probably not suprisingly, is “extensions”.<\/p>\n

Specifically and immediately, it’s the lack of AdBlock Plus<\/a> and Flashblock <\/a>(my love for which I’ve mentioned before<\/a>). I have lost my tolerance for the “Space Merchants<\/a>” internet, very highly preferring my intensely mediated experience of what’s out there. (And, I kind of suspect that blocking ads is not really<\/a> high<\/a> on Google’s priority list–although as soon as they open that API…)<\/p>\n

It’s not just those two, of course, although they are the ones that make the decision a complete no-brainer. Before I’d be really happy switching there would need to be equivalents for TorButton<\/a>, DownThemAll<\/a>, FireFTP<\/a>, LeetKey<\/a>, and perhaps most amusingly the Google Notebook Addon<\/a>, among many others.<\/p>\n

And then there’s the whole question of Tab Mix Plus<\/a>. I don’t think I can use Firefox without it, but I’m not sure that what it provides is needed for Chrome. I primarily use it to get multiple tab rows and the session management functionality in Firefox (which I really only want because if I have 246 tabs open in Firefox and it crashes I want those tabs back–this doesn’t really apply to Chrome due to the multiple process architecture).<\/p>\n

What I do see myself immediately using Chrome for, even before it has an extension ecosystem grow up around it, is as a web application engine–this shouldn’t be surprising, since this is one of the stated goals of the project. That “create application shortcut…” menu item, which happily creates a shortcut to open Chrome on a specific URL, without toolbars and menus, etc, could endup being very handy for me, for a selection of web applications that I use outside the context of my browsing. Like, you know, GMail. Or even this blog’s administration console.<\/p>\n

Of course it’ll be limited to those applications that don’t have annoying ads…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, like all the other serious geeks, I’ve been playing with Google Chrome for a the last couple of days. In general, I like it–it’s fast, and there are lots of nice little UI bits that I quite like, plus the deep nerd in me likes the multi-process architecture and the built-in memory profiling, etc. However there is absolutely no… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[324,228],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-web-tools","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-nZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}