Chrome conintued

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Here are all the status pages I could find.

• about:cache (shows your history and cache)
• about:crash (shows data about crashes, mine is not there because it has not crashed)
• about:dns (shows all about the DNS chrome is using)
• about:histograms (an under the covers look at chrome)
• about:internets (well it is a 1990’s screen saves as best as I can tell)
• about:memory (show the memory use per page)
• about:network (give the ability to do I/O tracking and statistics)
• about:plugins (displays the plugins and associated file types)
• about:stats (shows all of chrome’s statistics)
• about:version (displays the version of the browser)
• viewcache:[URL] (shows cache of a page, though not really useful for anything but tech support)
• view-source:[URL] (displays the source code of the page)

For example: view-source:http://dennismueller.org/blog/ will show you the HTML source code.

This is a continuation of http://dennismueller.org/blog/2008/09/google-chromegoogle-chrome/

Google Chrome

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Google Chrome is fast, clean and stable. Pages do seem to load much much faster. I have not had any major issues with media types not being supported or websites looking really funky. Even most of microsoft.com web pages render correctly, which is sometimes a real trial with Firefox and the like. With the notable exception that my javascript lightbox does not work on this blog.

The right click menu options are clean too.

There are some interesting features built in like Incognito mode. It allows you to surf the web and not have your computer record where you go, or what you look at. It does not stop the tracking that websites do though.

Chrome also has a bunch of cool features when it comes to the address bar. It is a built in search engine and can show statistics (try typing about:memory, about:stats or about:dns). Overall Google produced a really solid beta.

The only two features I would like to see is bookmarks auto syncing vs. having to use Google bookmarks and inline spell checking.

PS – I am posting this using Chrome to my blog.