{"id":2623,"date":"2008-09-02T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2008-09-02T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:02:07","slug":"googles-chrome-is-great-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/09\/02\/googles-chrome-is-great-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Chrome is great, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more than the typical &#8220;Chrome is great&#8221; response to Google&#8217;s new browser, here are some of the ones I&#8217;ve come across that I think make good points and\/or go into some depth. For whatever it&#8217;s worth, I think it&#8217;s pretty good &#8212; and it seems pretty damn fast as well. Will I make it my default? Not just yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Walt Mossberg<\/strong> has a review of Chrome up <a href=\"http:\/\/ptech.allthingsd.com\/20080902\/first-test-of-googles-new-browser\/\">at All Things D<\/a> and seems to like it, but isn&#8217;t blown away (his speed tests don&#8217;t jibe with mine though, and CNET says Chrome <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\">beats<\/a> every other browser).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>SEO 2.0<\/strong> thinks that a Google browser could actually be a bad thing, for a <a href=\"http:\/\/seo2.0.onreact.com\/7-reasons-why-google-chrome-the-new-google-browser-is-a-bad-idea\">number of reasons<\/a> (some of them good).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jack Schofield at <strong>The Guardian<\/strong> notes that almost all of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/09\/02\/is_there_anything_original_in_google_chrome.html\">Chrome&#8217;s features<\/a> (and even its name) are already available in other browsers, and in some cases have been for years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Matt Cutts<\/strong>, the Google blogger, has an excellent post up in which he responds to some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/common-google-chrome-objections\/\">the criticisms<\/a> (Google&#8217;s going to track me! Google&#8217;s going to know everything!) and questions about Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Eric at <strong>Internet Duct Tape<\/strong> says he likes Chrome a lot, and it really is fast, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/internetducttape.com\/2008\/09\/02\/why-google-chrome-isnt-my-default-browser\/\">missing<\/a> some crucial things (ad blocker, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Wired<\/strong> has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/it\/magazine\/16-10\/mf_chrome?currentPage=2\">in-depth look<\/a> at the Chrome project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more than the typical &#8220;Chrome is great&#8221; response to Google&#8217;s new browser, here are some of the ones I&#8217;ve come across that I think make good points and\/or go into some depth. For whatever it&#8217;s worth, I think it&#8217;s pretty good &#8212; and it seems pretty damn fast as well. Will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/09\/02\/googles-chrome-is-great-but\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google&#8217;s Chrome is great, but&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}