Posts Tagged ‘Google Chrome’

Of Safari vs Chrome

Safari vs Chrome
Notice how Google Chrome taking the market one step at one time? Guess both founders of Google are now sucking their Acid cigars in their office now.

Beside the infamous Mozilla FireFox and Opera browsers, Safari, however, is still a new take into the market, especially for the PC version. Google on the other hand, they know that where to attack at first. Even though I don’t really like Google Chrome (still buggy), but speed is all that matter some times. Recently Google Chrome opened a new door into Macintosh machine, though it is still in Beta release, but I’m pretty sure a lot of FireFox users would change to Chrome.

My main browser is FireFox and secondary is Chrome. If not because I am a web developer and chinese reader, I’m sure go with Chrome too ;) Yes, there is no Apple Safari installed on my system :P

Checking out Safari 4

I was about to get back home after the whole day tiring office work. The colleagues came and said something (Work related) and told me that Safari has a new version that just came out last night, in the midnight :? I bet he was waiting there as well, but whatever it is, I’m checking it out once I got home :)
Safari 4 UI
Very simple, as simple as Google Chrome and honestly, this copy has been too significant :P And why they didn’t talk to themselves about copying? Instead, they keep on blaming Microsoft Windows are copying them? Guess the person who being copy is louder than the person who copying :) Anyway, speaking of Safari 4, the user interface has been upgraded, a lot!
Safari 4 most viewed sites list
How I love the way they display the most viewed site comparing with Google Chrome. Well, as usual that’s the Apple style, simple yet elegant :)
Safari 4 cover flow view
However, I have one problem though, this viewing is good, but the function wasn’t there yet. I am still looking for ways to import my bookmark into Safari 4. I’m currently using IE6, IE7, Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome and now Safari 4 beta! Guess this beta version doesn’t support it yet, until the next release(?)
Safari 4 tabs
I’m having this problem as well. I wonder if Safari developing team notice this or not. I was forced to change the classic theme into XP theme mainly because of the tiny tabs it has on the classic theme. Hmm… This is just like a good Google Chrome. Well, it’s good that Apple has come out this idea to solve their Safari usage.

Google Chrome came out just a while but has taken a lot of market share, growing faster than Safari 3 :) I just hope IE die away as soon as possible :P Working as a home business especially in Internet related work, coding for IE6 is really a headache. Hopefully Safari don’t play games with me anymore.

Google Chrome on my Mac

Google Chrome on Mac
Yes, you see it right, it’s Google Chrome in my Mac OSX 10.4.10 :) Finally it’s here! However, I’ll have to say that I don’t think this can work long term though.

Anyway, this is actually called CrossOver Chromium by CrossOver. They stated that it’s just for fun, so there are risks on running it for long term. However, this is the demonstration of what Wine can do. Seriously gotta love these developers!

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser.

However, as my experience tells me, it’s just not so nice to use accelerator in any computer. I’m with it for a while and done with it. By the way, it require some sort of stuff from Apple X11. Since my CD ROM busted out last month, I can’t try it :( It’s gonna be another long time to wait for Google to actually develop the Mac and Linux version of Google Chrome. Sound like acne treatment is needed.

Look at Google Chrome

Finally get to touch and play a bit with Google Chrome. Lucky that my girl friend brought her PC laptop here, or else I wouldn’t be able to download Google Chrome so early. Sad to tell that Google only launch PC version, Linux and Mac user will have to wait their call :?

So, here are the screenshot of Google Chrome :D
Osground on Google Chrome
Google Chrome minimized all the useless border, so the whole webpage was like maximized up. I can view more area of a page. Well, there isn’t any button like “File, Edit, View…”. Since Google Chrome is like minimized all the useless page, the loading was awesome. So fast that it beat Safari!
Google Chrome front page
I don’t like the open page Google Chrome shows, I rather have a blank one instead. Well, good technology though, since those recent visited sites has a thumbnail some more, but there isn’t a point though.
Google Chrome bar
Speaking of how Google Chrome look like, that’s all the button Google Chrome has. Back, forward, refresh, address bar, file, option. Done! Oh, the address bar serve as Google search as well.

However, this is only BETA version. I think that’s all Google gonna offer us, nothing gonna update anymore, unless for the security reason. Seems like there are open employment at Google now :lol: Anyway, can’t wait for Mac version to come out :P