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So I got it installed at home on a windows XP machine. It installed really quickly but you have to close Firefox so it can import all the settings from that. I’m not even sure it asked me if it could do that. I’m actually writing this blogpost in chrome.

So it loads the pages really fast and it renders the pages mainly in one go. I think it loads those pieces from the same server in one go.

Most things work. Except for the checkbox. Somebody made a mistake and it renders the checkbox as a radiobutton but I’m sure they will get that fixed one day.

I don’t like the placement of the tabs, I probably got too used to FF and IE.

In these widescreen days, I would like to be able to have my bookmarks (or something else) pinned on the right or left side. It would save a click.

And Lessthandot is being shown pretty much how it should be.

It doesn’t yet have many plugins like FF, but I think that will be solved soon.

Looking at the sourcecode is a pleasure, compared to the other 2 big ones. It opens in a new tab and it has colorcoding :D

Another cool thing is the taskmanager.

It also has built in firebug called Javascript console ;-)

So I’m pretty happy with it, but it needs some more testing because I have already seen lots of bugs out there, but we have all been there ;-).

So try it and make it even better. This could be a Firefox killer.

I hope they get a redistributing version.

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User bio imageChristiaan is a forensic technician who programs on the side, although my function description says that I do IT-things for 90% of the time . I'm an avid VB.NET fan and I use lots of the ALT.Net techniques, like unit-testing, nhibernate, logging, IoC, ...
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Comment from: SQLDenis [Member] Email
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That is the same as nerd stats, pretty neat
03/09/08 @ 13:59
Comment from: SQLDenis [Member] Email
Try using google reader in Chrome, it is soooooooo much faster than either IE or FF
03/09/08 @ 14:01
Comment from: cbetancourt [Member] Email
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It looks like Firebug, but it's not. There is no script debugging, stacktrace or breakpoints. It actually looks a lot more like the WebKit/Safari 3 debugger.

View Source wraps the code and there is no way to change that. What browser do you use that you're excited about the code being colorized?? FF has always done this, Opera too.

I like it a lot, very fast, especially optimized for Ajax-like stuff. Did you guys read about where they want to take it with compiled JS? I think that's where they'll smoke all other browsers.
03/09/08 @ 14:58
Comment from: SQLDenis [Member] Email
Yep, it is very fast compared to FF and especially IE. I also like the most visited ages feature. Still have to try out IE8 Beta 2 but I am sure it is not nearly as nice
03/09/08 @ 20:21
Comment from: chrissie1 [Member] Email
@Claude, I wasn't exited about the coloroding, it was just an observation (first impression) but the opening in a new tab is a lot better then what I'm used to.

But I'm sure FF and IE will have the same features soon.
03/09/08 @ 22:09

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