Threading – I hadn’t realised that firefox’s javascript was single-threaded until after that post (well I read something to that effect, but who knows on the internets what is true). Actually trying to address that is noble, but again, not innovation, it’s just fixing an obvious design flaw, if that is the case. On the other hand, i’m not so sure about the NxM process model, although I see why google did it – i.e. replace desktop applications with hybrid applications. But to me a browser is a browser, not a virtual os, as it is to them. (but i digress – as a luser none of this really means anything other than fixing a bug).

Anyway, it was mostly just a small impulsive rant against what I see – as a luser – that I don’t like, and a chance for some negativity from someone who doesn’t fawn over everything google (or anyone else) does, just to balance the many others that seem to (mind you, I do fawn over a lot of their stuff). I’m sure it’ll get better, and it’s free software, so anyone can make it better (awesome, etc), and it’s only a beta release anyway.

So, *I* don’t like the way IE7/office-whatever changed the whole menu metaphor around – nor anyone copying them – even tho the windows/x menu metaphor is pretty crap to start with, at least it was consistent – but now everyone else will copy this shit and we’ll be stuck with it forever (and while gnome and everyone else scrambles to copy the `new black’, apple merrily sticks to the same basic system they had over 20 years ago). Just like *I* don’t like the way windows 95 fucked up the window gadgets for every desktop since in the same manner. And *I* don’t like pointless animations which add *nothing* to the functionality of the application (thus, making them pointless and redundant). I also do not like every app having it’s own custom look and feel, changing the way basic features like title bars, tabs, and so on work as well as look.

I still stand by ‘it’s just another wekit based browser with limited features’ – **not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that**, as I said, I would switch away from firefox in a minute if it had the font thing and ad blocking (built in preferably – not a fan of plugins), as I don’t particularly care for firefox and have already sampled some webkit browsers and have been waiting for one that worked well enough for me, on my chosen platform. (I only use windoze at work, so I can’t even use chrome yet, even if i wanted to).

I also see no reason to promote the application menu as such a central interface element, when the interface is so simple. It works perfectly where it is, and I’d love to see other browsers try to limit themselves to two small menu categories… Often I get the impression that applications put a lot of items in the menus, just so they don’t look so empty.

I really disagree about the animations being “annoying”, I find them very subtle and pleasing to the eye. They hardly went overboard with it.

Chrome might also be the first browser I really enjoy out of the box, without doing any tweaking at all (including font settings), which is a big plus in my book.

No ad blocking will be a bummer for many people of course, but lately I’ve become more interested in seeing sites “as they are” anyway, so it’s not an issue for me. I’m sure there will be an extension or modification for it in not too long.

It’s hardly perfect but what browser is on the day of it’s first public release? At core it seems to have some good ideas.