Chrome - A huge let down

I was one of the people who were eagerly waiting for the much talked about browser from Google - Chrome. The chrome web browser was a huge let down. This was not the browser that i was expecting from Google. Though it is a beta version, it is far from anything close to Firefox or Opera.

The only good thing is the incognito operation which allows not to maintain the history and block cookie entries. The overall look of the browser was average. Probably it would improve once people start developing the skins for this browser. Very decent plugins for media players. The file downloads are much similar to Firefox, except for the graphical version attached to indicate the beginning of the download. out of the box flash player support is a good feature.

This said the browser doesn't support shockwave files yet.The major letdown is the non-inclusion of JAVA support. Most of the sites with JAVA won't work properly. Before the introduction of the browser, the main advantage that was highlighted was the usgae of JAVA in a manner that increases the speed with which webpages load. I am not sure what happened to that. probably they had referred to the Asynchronous Java Script that is used for updating the google maps and other goodle related services.

Even though it is alet down, there is still hope for improvement as this is announced as an open source software. i would have expected Google to release a much better version than releasing Chrome in its present state just to improve the market share values.

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