Ok Last day it was all over internet that google is about to launch a browser tomorrow. From the morning i was checking for the download link for chrome every now and then, just like a kid looking at door when dad is coming home with gifts. by the evening i got some link telling that it will be available by US morning time. That has been past by the evening 8'O clock. Anyway i was keep trying the link provided be the google search. [Ya google search was giving the page to download and even eula page, but when one click on these links it was getting redirected to google home page].
Anyway by the 1:30 AM [3rd Sepetember 2008] I got the link working. I downloaded the Chorme installer. and as soon as i downloaded the installer i start installing my latest toy. As i have already gone through the comic book provided by google, and even i have seen screenshots of chorme than also i was excited.
Ok I got the chrome screen asking me to improt browser settings from my system and i granted the request. Here comes the first screen. it's simple with quite boring looks. i started using it by typing in Omnibox [yes this is what google call address bar]. here i got nice search [as google is expert in this field]. Ok all google product work nice and smooth in this browser as expacted and even all other popular sites are working fine. but here comes the first drawback i faced i visted http://www.bseindia.com and holla!!! ... java applet is not loading.... it tells pulgin is not available and even don't provide any way to solve it. here point is i am able to visit this same site without any issues using safari.
next i tried to load my work site. that is totally messed up as that doesn't follow any standard so ok problem is on our side. here i come to know few very nice features like "inspect element" and "Task manager" both are quite handy and easy to use. Task manager let you know about which browser and which process under chrome is taking much memory. one can see this all under "Stats for nerds" :) . while i was using these three browsers [Chrome/IE7/Safari] side by side i saw my mouse have difficulty in moving and switching between tabs is also damn slow. One more issue !!!!.... Chrome is taking more than 60% of CPU at most of occations. And the issue is whenever you are openning "inspect element" CPU for Chrome is hoving over 60%.
Next thing i tried is popup blocking for this i try to do a automatic test i tried AuditMyPC.com for this test. i clicked on test link and yeappy pop-up pop-up and pop-up, and good news is all are blocked... it's different story that this site doesn't consider them blocked and score chorme as poor in pop-up blocking... but if i have to rate i will rate 100/100 for popup blocking to chrome.
When i am typing this blog, the text area is keep getting hang.. my cpu usage is less than 40% and Memory usage is also not much for a hang.
Now i am stopping to go futher with this "checking my new toy" thing, hopeing soon chrome will become good and give nice fight to other browser...
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