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As shiny as Chrome

Posted by Chris under Browsers, Chrome, Google, Search Engines

Looks like today at noon central we’ll be seeing Google’s first forey into the browser world with Chrome. Adam Kmiec said it pretty well in a tweet this morning. I like his three reasons. Some first looks are of course over at Wikipedia,  cnet and information week.

Of course if you want Google’s take on it check out their chrome comic.

Me I’ll be downloading it today and will let you know my hands on thoughts.

More screen shots from Techcrunch.

How much do I like Firefox 3, let me count the ways

Posted by Chris under Browsers, Firefox, Social Networking, Technology, Uncategorized, plugins

More intuitive interface - back button only lights up when you can go back and a UI reflective of the system that it is on.

Better handling of passwords.

Smart location Bar - just type in a term and the autocomplete functions like it’s on steroids by showing a list that includes possible matching sites from your browsing history, as well as sites you’ve bookmarked and tagged in a drop down. You can even enter in terms and matched terms are highlighted, making the list of results easy to scan.

Have to love the bookmarks. Both in Firefox 3 and it’s integration with Del.icio.us. Get the Del.icio.us add on and away you go, making it more of the default place to save your bookmarks. One click / Two click book marking functionality. - One click on the star icon at the end of the location bar bookmarks a site. Two clicks and you can choose where to save it and whether to tag it. Then you can find your bookmarked sites in a flash by entering the tag, page or bookmark name into the location bar. The more you use your tags and bookmark names in the location bar, the more the system will adapt to your preferences. But hey with the Del.icio.us add in you can do all this and more

One for you, I want to open as many tabs as possible people, Reopen Closed Tabs -If you accidentally close a tab, you can reopen it in one click. Just view Recently Closed Tabs in the History menu and select the tab you’d like to reopen.

Now I just wonder when my second favorite browser, Flock is going to update to FF3’s features as well