Google Chrome – Not bad

I downloaded Google Chrome today. While only a beta (though Google seems to leave things in beta mode forever) it seems to achieve it’s goal. It is a simple, fast and pretty stable browser.

I like to check out browsers. I currently have IE, Firefox, Opera and now Chrome installed. I had Safari for a while but it didn’t do anything for me.

Why switch if you use something else? Probably no great reason if you like your current browser. I’m a Firefox fan. Chrome seems a bit faster. I do like the “each tab in its own process” concept so that one stuck tab won’t crash the whole browser.

There’s even a Chrome version of Task Manager showing all the tabs (and damn, Flash takes a lot of memory).

Today, Chrome supports no extensions. That may be a big killer for lots of power users. But I like to experiment, so Chrome will be my default browser for the next week or so. We’ll see if it lasts longer…