Hack Stuff

Google Chrome is a pretty nice browser. It has some faults and feels very googly (not a good thing) and I wonder if those bastards are mining my data like some ridiculously invasive firefox plugin.

But, I like it a lot better than firefox, which pretty much sucks.

Pros:

• More Screenspace: a skinnier scroll-bar and hidden tools area along with tabs on the top make more room to look at pieces of internet.
• Faster than Firefox. Firefox uses 130,000k to perform the same tasks that Google Chrome does with 35,000k. I’m guessing the javascript masters at Google have figured out how to make a browser handle and execute javascripts better than those hippies at Firefox. Firefox hippies think it’s amazing that i’d want to use AJAX instant  messenger program and watch a flash video on a page that uses .js at the same time.
• Tabs on the top of the browser. Actually, each tab runs as its own instance of chrome. If you close a tab you’re ending that process. Sorta smart since sometimes one tab freezes your internets while others are behaving themselves perfectly fine.
• Simple Right-Click menu. WTF is up with Firefox’s right click menu? Bookmark this page. Check Spelling. Order a Pizza from Domino’s. Email your girlfriend to say hello. Screw you Firefox.

Cons:

• It’s from Google.  In a few years google will be making houses and cars.
• The Google Chrome logo is really ugly and stupid looking. It’s looks sort of like a reworking of my budget antivirus softwares’ logo, AVG by Grisoft.

avg is for cheapskates

• Blue top background? Is there a law that says every browsers top bar must be blue? Make it a different color you hacks! Green! Red! Modern science has afforded many new colors besides blue. Pick one.
• If everyone adopted it Google could use this browser as like a mega-alexa plugin and add all the data to their algorithm which would pretty much ruin any slick SEO tricks me and my compadres might use.

• There’s some pretty useless “Easter Eggs” also. (Type these in and get info on your browser, or in the case of about:internet you’ll get some 1990s windows screensaver with the page title “Don’t Clog The Tubes!” Yeah, real knee slapper.

about:memory
about:stats
about:network
about:internets
about:histograms
about:dns
about:cache
about:plugins
about:version

• No Plugins. If this browser allowed plugins i’d throw away FF forever and never look back.

I want to close with a question. Why is it so friggin difficult for someone to make a browser that works well? Why is there not one universal plugin langauge? Why does Firefox slow my internets so much but every hippie thinks its the greatest thing ever?