Re: [MLUG] Google Chrome for Linux?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Fallert, Adam Christian wrote:

> Honestly, I tried Google Chrome and I wasn't too impressed with it.  As 
> far as browsers that use the WebKit rendering engine go I think Apple 
> Safari has the best implelmentation of it.  That would be the one I 
> would like to see ported to linux.

I've been using it.  It isn't perfect, but it has an important feature 
that the other browsers seem to be lacking:  Every tab is a distinct 
process, so if something goes wrong, I can kill a tab to fix it.  Firefox 
tends to crash on me, but Google Chrome will not crash.  I don't know what 
Safari is like.  I think it doesn't run tabs as separate processes though.

Google created a multi-process browser for a good reason:  They want 
people to be able to use their web-based apps without having to worry that 
something else running in the browser will crash their app.  Even if you 
prefer a different browser, when it comes to using Google apps, you'll 
probably want to use Chrome.

Right now the thing that bugs me most about Chrome is that it won't open 
files on the fly.  For example, it will only download a .doc file instead 
of just opening MS Word to display it.  I seem to have no control over how 
different file types are handled.  Strange, because I think that feature 
was present in the first browser I used back in early 1995 -- Mosaic -- so 
it isn't exactly a novel idea.

Mike

_______________________________________________
members mailing list
EMAIL:PROTECTED
http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/members