The Good Computer Guy Blog :: Another new browser

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The majority of Windows computer users use Microsoft Internet Explorer to browse the web. Most people should be updated to IE7 by now, but I still see a lot of IE6 out there unfortunately. Mozilla Firefox is the next most popular browser but still doesn't make much of a dent since IE comes included with Windows. Typically people using Firefox are more tech-savvy. As for me, I've been using Firefox lately simply because IE7 sort of broke and I never got around to fixing it.

But now there's yet another choice - Google Chrome. Well there are other choices besides that, too, but given that this is GOOGLE I think there's a better chance that this will rocket up to 3rd place pretty quickly. Choice is good, but do we REALLY need another browser? Probably not, although it does have some interesting features, including my favorite - being able to pull tabs out into a fresh window (or even bring them over to another already open window.) It's painless to check out, although I'm not sure that it really is all that necessary at the moment and it does not have any of the extensions that Firefox has.

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1 - While I haven't tried Chrome yet, I likely will. The reports are that it's a better, faster exprience when you run web apps. I'm on the board of The Discovery Museums (Acton, MA) and we're about to go live with Kablink, a cool, open source web collaboration app. Bet it's better with Chrome.

Posted by Tom Witkin At 03:10:34 PM On 09/13/2008 | - Website - |