SociaLight Media Blog

This week, I wanted to ask a question and open up the SociaLight Media Blog to our hordes of readers. Have you used Google’s new Internet browser, Chrome, and what do you think of it? How would you compare it to Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, and others?

Surfing the web today and writing this post on Chrome has been a pleasant experience. The user interface is extremely simple and minimalistic. I love the buttons in the top right; simply “Control this Page” and “Customize Chrome.” Simple as can be. I also like that the address bar, or Omnibox, highlights the URL’s domain name, so this page for example will appear as http://blog.socialightmedia.com/google-chrome-what-do-you-think on any other browser, on Chrome it will appear as http://blog.socialightmedia.com/google-chrome-what-do-you-think. Nice for truncating long URLs or simply identifying the source of information quickly.

Chrome seems fast and intuitive, however (without having played with it for long) it doesn’t seem to have as many of the features, or plug-ins, that Firefox has. I’m still poking around Chrome, so expect an update to this post, and I’m really looking forward to hearing some reader comments! Tell me what you think about Google’s brand new Internet browser, Chrome.