Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Chrome Fast?

I've been playing around with Google's Chrome web browser. It's good, no doubt. It loads most pages correctly (better than Safari in my experience, which is quite odd since they're both based on Apple's open source WebKit) and is simple yet functional. It has two big "gotchas" that keep me from adopting it - one: you can't view PDFs in the browser window (or at least not on my Mac the way I have it setup) - two: the download manager is terrible and doesn't let your reliably resume a failed download. Other than those two things though, it is good - and very, very fast. How fast? Watch this:

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