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More on Google Chrome
I’d like to build upon Ady’s excellent write-up on Google Chrome. I feel that Chrome has combined the best features of FF3 and Opera 9.5.
Features from FF3:
“Magic” address bar
Syntax-highlighted viewed source
Incremental find
Integrated Firebug-like tool! Absolutely cool. In Chrome, right-click and select “Inspect element”
Feature from Opera:
Speed dial, but Chrome’s implementation is much more intuitive. I didn’t […]
Update on Google Chrome
Previously I mentioned that by using the –no-sandbox parameter, I would lose out in terms of having one process per tab. Actually I was wrong. According to Mark Lawson from Google:
–no-sandbox disables Google Chrome’s sandbox protection that keeps the system safe from problems in web sites’ HTML and Javascript.
Using –no-sandbox, I do get one process […]
Google Chroming, but Missing the Point
nazham.com and dirn.name got me all excited to try out Google’s new web browser, Chrome.
Installation was indeed very fast. But then:
Oh no. Apparently everyone who is using Symantec Endpoint Protection is facing the exact same issue. I tried to configure SEP to ignore chrome.exe, but in vain. So now I have to run chrome.exe with […]
Movica: WMV Editor
I wanted to help my friend upload a video to YouTube, but his video was too long (more than YouTube’s 10-minute limit). So I was searching for something that could extract sections from a WMV file and found Movica. I don’t know whether it’s the best but it worked for me. What I like about […]
Why I’m Not Using Opera or Safari
I tried out alternatives to Firefox 3.0 but it looks like Firefox is the only one for me, for now.
Google Reader doesn’t work on Opera 9.50, which is a shame. I hope Google fixes this soon. It’s a great browser.
Safari 3.1.2 for Windows doesn’t have a new tab button, and the fonts are fuzzy. According […]
