Google Chrome

I downloaded Google Chrome and installed it in my laptop. Been giving it a run since yesterday. First impressions are that good. It is very "Google-like", i.e., it follows a very minimalistic design. The first time the homepage opens you virtually see a blank screen. Though later on the home screen provides you with the snapshots of most visited sites. This works very much like Opera's Speed dial where you get to choose the pages. I don't know still if we can chose what pages should be displayed in Chrome. Recent Bookmarks is also a cool utility, as I sometimes bookmark pages I want to see later and then forget. This helps me in finishing that task.

It has imported all the bookmarks, passwords from FireFox. It can do it for IE. No hassles there. But it will not work if you seem to be using any other browser. For example if you are using Opera or Safari (Apple's offer for browsing,) you will be left to help yourself. (been trying that too for a week or so. may review later).

The visual are pleasing and pages load quite fast. Not just that. Even the browser loads really fast. I always had to wait to see FireFox load. But I liked the addins in FireFox, especially Foxmarks. I browse in more than one computer and go on bookmarking in everywhere. Foxmarks was doing a wonderful job. As this is a open source offering I would like to see a ChromeMarks real sson, if I have to really switch over to Chrome. One thing I was able to do which I had trouble with in other browsers is that booking of tickets in www.thecinema.in was better where I was led to "generate ticket" page instead of the browser going dead. It happened in IE, FireFox and Safari.