Project Chromium for a Week was pretty uneventful. I got pissed off at the constant barrage of beachballs from Safari, and started The Project a few days ahead of schedule. Chrom(e/ium) works well enough, and I've stuck with it, even after the official end of The Project. Up until recently, your choice of web browser on the Mac was essentially Safari, Firefox, or Opera. There are also the antiquated IE for Mac and OmniWeb. In my opinion, all but Safari are completely laughable. Chrome is the first real competitor, in my opinion. Firefox is probably next closest - I know some are willing to put up with its joke of a UI in the name of extensibility and openness, but I am not. Chrome's UI is nowhere near perfect, but still much more pleasant to use than Firefox. Rather than write a lengthy essay on why I'm using Chrome for now, or why I might switch back to Safari some day, I figured I'd just throw together a quick pro/con list, and leave it up to the reader to prioritize.
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Chrome VS Safari
date: 2009-12-29 12:23:59
Mulling
Full image, 8x10" @ 300DPI up on flickr, clicking the image above will get you there! May upload PDF at some point. May do paper cutting at some point. Oh, still working on finishing the bus shelter series!
categories:
illustration,
art
date: 2009-12-09 14:19:41
Chromium for a Week
I've been giving the Mac developer builds of Google Chrome (or, more accurately, Chromium) a bit of running around lately, and I've decided to see how well I manage using it as my primary browser next week, all week. Starting Monday, I'll be running it exclusively unless something forces me to do otherwise. I'll still be testing my site using Safari and Firefox, but for my day-to-day browsing tasks, it'll all be Chrome.
date: 2009-12-02 19:05:32