...and downloaded Google Chrome. So not worth it. First of all, the initial download itself is just another downloader app, which, by the way, takes forever to fully complete on a pretty decent connection. This bugs me, because I was unable to see exactly how big the actual download would end up being. Also, all the "calling home" freaked out my firewall. Strike one for Chrome.
Once it was finally downloaded and installed, Chrome offered to import my settings from Mozilla. "Oh, cool," I thought. Not cool. The screen hung after appearing to import. I had to kill the task from my Task Manager. Twice. It never did actually import my bookmarks (as one of my commenters has said). Strike two for Chrome.
Finally loading the actual application itself, my firewall complained some more (this is typical for a browser; but there certainly do seem to be a lot of calls out), and I was hit by a lot of sparseness. There are few menu options available to the user. And, honestly, I didn't notice much of a speed increase at all. Strike three, Chrome is out.
Back to my old trusty Firefox, which I can tweak to my heart's content! Perhaps once Chrome leaves Beta stage, I'll give it another whirl. Until then, I'm now convinced that I'm not missing anything.
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Thanks for the info! I was wondering what Chrome would be like.
So was I! That's why I succumbed to the temptation!
I haven't used it at all since last night, and yet my firewall still notifies me every couple of minutes of the installer calling home. Must have an auto-update. Looks like I can't even have this sitting quietly on my system -- I'll have to completely uninstall to get any peace.
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