Nerdy Lifestyle Changes: Google Chrome
I’ve always been a Firefox guy, but for one reason or another, I’ve been more and more tempted to try out Google Chrome. I nervously gave it a shot, and after a couple of days, changed it to my default browser.So I’m not sure why I was so resistant to making this nerdy lifestyle change… I’ve always loved Google and think that most of their products are just amazing. Most people would agree, I think.
Perhaps the biggest thing holding me back was the Firefox extension, Firebug. I understand this is a common sentiment, but Google’s built-in developer tools are similar, and even have some more powerful unique features of its own.
But there are two reasons I mainly made the switch:
1) Screen Real Estate: Simple removing all the bulk of typical web browsers gives chrome a light, feel to it. It puts a far-greater focus on the website itself. For heavy web-apps, this means a more natural application experience, and in general, just provides a greater amount of content that can fit on the screen at one time.
2) JavaScript Execution Speed: It’s just faster. It might not be as fast as Safari, but it’s faster than Firefox, and I like speed.
And here’s a little something I just discovered! There’s a feature in most browsers that allows you to warn users when they are about to leave your website. This can be useful for sites such as Google Docs, but also can be used by scammy sites to confuse their users into staying longer.
I’ve always had a problem with those popups, because the options of what to click are OK and CANCEL. It’s not immediately obvious which one you click to do what, so when I discovered that Chrome chose different buttons for this popup, I was very pleased. Why didn’t anybody else think of this before?
Firefox popup:
Chrome Popup:
