From my earlier entry I was quite excited to start using Chrome and downloaded it immediately when it became available.
My first impressions were good, I liked the minimulistic design and how quick it seemed to be and was quite fun to use, but this was proabably a “new toy” sort of reaction. It didn’t take long before I was back to my firm favorite Firefox. Maybe I am just a creature of habit and am so used to firefox now it would take something extrodinary to prise my grip away from it (the same with Google “… who needs a different search engine?”).
I did have high hopes for Chrome, especially after reading through the many pages of the Chrome comic. I did think it could be a Firefox beater, and a few days after the release the usage figures were good with almost a 2% usage of all internet traffic.
Unfortunately it seemed I and a lot more people got a bit bored of Chrome and returned to their browser of choice as the numbers fell.
Chrome isn’t bad for a product which is still firmly in a beta stage, although Google do seem to be taking there time releasing a Mac version, which, now since I use a Mac in everyday life, is something I would like to test.
To conclude, Chrome isn’t bad, after all it is still in beta, the mac version hasn’t been released and we havn’t seen the plug-ins to their full extent yet, at least not to a firefox standard… but it has had a head start.
