New and Improved Chrome
Google has dropped the ‘beta’ from the Chrome browser in the latest release. I posted recently about my issues with the browser and why I was moving back to Firefox. Having updated to the newest version and tested it out briefly, it appears my major gripes are gone. The text area bug that annoyed me so much seems to have been squashed and every video I tested played without a hitch. There is now a bookmark manager, where individual bookmarks can easily be deleted and reordered. They now have an option to delete all of the entries in the browsing history for a single day, though there doesn’t appear to be a way to delete individual items and there are no options to delete a week’s or month’s worth of history as other browsers have.
The Google blog post regarding this version indicates that an extensions platform is under development for a future release. So it could be that the Firefox extensions I’ve come to depend upon could potentially be ported over (or alternatives developed). I think I may start using Chrome again from time to time. I’m not ready to go back to full-time browsing with it until I get a download manager extension for it, but I’m hoping that I’ll eventually be able to ditch Firefox for it. FF is a great browser, but Chrome just seems so shiny!