Image Credit: "Once you go Mac, you don't go back." by Andrew Trinh
I’ve been spoiled by Mac and I will not go back to PC! I cant go back! Day 23 was filled with working on PC’s in school bas to finish work and fixing families laptops and desktops. I found myself making silly mistakes. I’ve grown accustomed to Mac and instantly missed my mouse-pad gestures and the placement of the command key, I expected everything to work as they did on my Mac. They did not. I was in a world I’ve known for many years that suddenly felt alien. Program installations displayed unnecessary pop-ups, the right mouse button seemed unnecessary (although I miss it the most on Mac), laptop cases felt flimsy, and the ALT key was in the wrong place! Clearly, Planet Windows was a world I left far behind 22 days ago. Continue Reading »
Google’s Chrome is an excellent web browser; it is fast with a clean and simple interface. For the past month I’ve been using Chrome as my default web browser to compare its performance to Firefox (my regular browser). Chrome has some bugs still left to shake out (it is a browser in development) but very polished which is more than I expected. Chrome handles JavaScript faster than Firefox, although with bugs are seen heavily with some JavaScript intensive applications (such as Plurk). Comparing system memory and resources, I have some mixed results, compared to the current release of Firefox (3.0) Chrome uses slightly less system resources, although the upcoming version of Firefox (3.1) appears to change that fact. The real difference between the two browsers when comparing memory and system use is Chrome’s multi-processes architecture, a feature I expect (and hope) Firefox will adopt in the future.
While I enjoy using Chrome, I keep coming back to Firefox, although many of Chrome’s features are very innovate (some you can mimic through extensions). There are a few issues I have with Chrome such as: weak support for RSS integration (such as Firefox’s Live Bookmarks), non-keyword bookmarking and lack of a bookmark export, poor support with streaming Windows Media Files (a symptom Firefox suffers from occasionally, not nearly as bad as Chrome) and its lack of add-on and extensions (although they are planned).
Chrome pushes a lot of innovative advances to the web browser it lags slightly behind Firefox as the browser to use (no one should be using IE). However, Chrome is still in development and very young compared to Firefox. If the current development is any indication of what is to come, Chrome may and should take over as a dominant browser (provided Firefox remains stagnant).
