Here’s a rare instance of me doing a review of a currently Windows-only application. While Google has plans to release a Mac OS version – for now, this release is limited to Windows-only.
So – this morning I fired up Parallels (Windows XP) and installed Chrome for a good look at what all the fuss on the blogosphere is all about. Right out the gate – I’m impressed. I went right to the sites that seem to take a few extra seconds to load and quickly noticed the speed with which Chrome opened and displayed the pages. There’s hardly a lag at all and instead of watching things slowly appear – first text, then graphics and everything else – it’s nice to watch a page just pop out. (ESPN.COM did have more of a traditional lag, largely because their site has so much happening)
Being a Firefox fan personally…and a Mac user almost exclusively – I won’t be using Chrome much since it only resides in my rarely used Parallels area. According to reports, Firefox is also working on an upgrade to their browser that utilizes a fast back-end engine to compete with the speeds that Chrome is running at. We’ll see how soon that comes out.