{"id":97,"date":"2008-09-02T19:39:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T02:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:58","slug":"first-impressions-of-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/first-impressions-of-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions of Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, a rare while, I come across a product that makes me say, &#8220;Wow, they actually thought about this.&#8221; I&#8217;m pleased to announce that today it happened again, thanks to a new web browser called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Google Chrome<\/a>. Read on for my brief review of the browser and some of the cool features that only geeks will appreciate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/intl\/en\/images\/dlpage_lg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My initial impression is that the boys in the backroom at Google really paid attention to how they browse the web. It wasn&#8217;t until I saw Chrome for the first time that I realized that our so-called modern browsers are still clinging to a 1998 paradigm of web browsing. It&#8217;s like they are focused more on standards compliance and some kind of &#8220;performance&#8221; metrics than they are on the end user. Chrome takes user experience to the next level. The Chrome team realized a couple key things about your average web browser user that the others just don&#8217;t get:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When you open a link in a new tab, you ought to open it in a <b>neighboring<\/b> tab, and not on the end of the list<\/li>\n<li>Yes, there are a handful of web sites that I visit the most, and yes a start page with those screens on it is very useful<\/li>\n<li>When I type in the address bar &#8220;slash&#8221;, 9 times out of 10, I really mean &#8220;slashdot.org&#8221;, not &#8220;http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/08\/09\/03\/0119236.shtml&#8221; (why would anyone want to auto-complete <b>that<\/b>?)<\/li>\n<li>Fast page loads are back baby!<\/li>\n<li>When I have lots of tabs open, and one of those tabs misbehaves (runaway JavaScript, a naughty Applet, etc.), I do <b>not<\/b> want the rest of my tabs to suffer.<\/li>\n<li>Each browser tab is actually a separate process, meaning a crash in one tab no longer affects your whole browsing session.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And the list goes on. I&#8217;m writing this from Chrome, and I am very happy. I haven&#8217;t had a browser get out of my way and just give me what I want in a long time, and I&#8217;ve been a 10-year proponent of Mozilla browsers like Mozilla itself, Galeon, Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox, Seamonkey, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Good job Chrome team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, a rare while, I come across a product that makes me say, &#8220;Wow, they actually thought about this.&#8221; I&#8217;m pleased to announce that today it happened again, thanks to a new web browser called Google Chrome. Read on for my brief review of the browser and some of the cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-and-cruft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}