When Google first released it’s Chrome browser it was greeted with a hubbub of geeky excitement. I downloaded it, I installed it, I tried it – I didn’t like it. That was the case for a few weeks anyway.
It sat on my laptop waiting to be used, but it was difficult to drag me away from a Firefox installation full of add ons that made my working day so much easier. Then Firefox started to slow right down. It started to become such a pain to use that I decided to give Chrome another go. And what a difference.
If you only use one browser I guess it could be difficult to imagine that others could load and work more quickly, but the difference between Firefox and Chrome was definitely noticeable, and when I compared Chrome to the awful Internet Explorer, it just wiped the floor with it in terms of the time taken to open and to produce a web page.
The major downside to Chrome is the lack on addons, but in a way this is also a major upside as the browser is being used in its factory condition. Nothing has been tampered, there is no sloppy coding slowing it down and there are no extensions checking for updates.
Now I am a Chrome convert. It is my default browser. I use it all the time.
Mac users have not been able to experience the speed of Chrome, until today, when Google announced that a beta version has been released. I would urge you to try it and would love to know if it works as well on the Mac as it does with Windows.
