Friday, September 05, 2008 11:57 AM Sean Feldman

Google Chrome

This is old news, but Google apparently has release a browser to speed things up (according to Google most of the current browsers are not performing well with CSS, JavaScript, and whole rendering). From a scratch approach worked not bad at all. Though there are several things that are working against this new browser:

  1. Keyboard shortcuts - right now you have to use a mouse to close a tab, or open a new one, or access downloaded files and much more.
  2. Absence of add-ins - one of the strong promoting features for FireFox was a massive support for custom add-ins. Having at least a few and showing that it's the direction would not heart at all. On the other hand, maybe it's not necessarily the direction Google wants to go (and not follow).

Overall - quick, clean, will evaluate more.

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# re: Google Chrome

Friday, September 05, 2008 7:25 PM by Jean-Francois

Sean,

The default shortcut keys are available like CTRL-T for a new Tab. CTRL-N for new window. CTRL-W to close a tab.

Best,

JF

# re: Google Chrome

Friday, September 05, 2008 10:03 PM by Perry

Ctrl+T opens a new tab and the ever-popular Windows Ctrl+F4 closes the tab with the focus.  Just like with FireFox.

# re: Google Chrome

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:04 PM by Sean Feldman

@JF - thanks for pointing that out. How silly I am...

@Perry - you are right about Ctrl-F4, but Alt-F4 is killing the whole application. What is bad, that it doesn't even look at the opened tabs to warn you. FF3 is handling it nicely