Silicon Shecky

So I finally decided to check out Chrome for myself. With all the hype and talk about it, I figured I better at least see what it is like.

The install took far longer than what I had expected for a “streamlined” installation. Once installed, it was never able to finish copying settings from my Firefox, and yes I let it sit there for a good 30 minutes as I walked away from my computer to take care of other things.

The little popup at the bottom as you go over links I found annoying, especially considering it woould sit there with a message even whn not over a link. One forum I go to which has some long threads, it was not able to process the threads properly. I found the layout to be simple, but coming from other browsers, a little confusing, especially as to where bookmarks and other items were hiding.

Personally, I don’t think Chrome is all that good. To me it just another thing to confuse people with. Firefox, Opera, IE, Safari, all have been around for a while, and while I have used them all except Opera, I know that people swear by each of them. Chrome just muddies the playing field with a not ready for prime time experience.

So it seems that we have a new set of patches for Firefox, and that the next version has a little change to it.

The article I have read indicates that there are a bunch of critical issues patched up with yesterday’s update to Firefox, but that none have been exploited. What seems to be the biggest thing has been some issues that cause memory corruption and crashes. Now I’m not a programmer, but that sounds to me liek a big deal. The real question is, how long will it take for the autoupdate feature of Firefox to get the update? Its the one failure in my mind of the browser. I know I hear about an update, and sometimes the autoupdate doesn’t get it for a month or longer. With critical patches, you would think it would get to you a little sooner than that.

Also in the article the next release of Firefox is now 3.5. Makes sense if you ask me, since they are doing a heck of a lot to the browser, but not quite enough to warrant it being called 4.0.