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I figured I'd join in all the Chrome posts. Why not? I've been messing with it a little. First, I like the speed, and mostly like the interface. The lack of a search box is a little off-putting at first, but I'll get used to using the location bar for that. It has some neat little features like the task manager and 'inspect element' capability built-in. The "Create application shortcut" functionality is pretty handy as well. Some problems I've noticed - for one I had some weird issues entering text into a text box after I'd resized it. You may have noticed text boxes have little "grab" areas at the lower right that let you resize them... Which is a great idea, but after using it I had problems with characters and lines of text I typed getting messed up, disappearing, etc. I also had a problem with a site I had chrome remember passwords for - it did so, but when I was using the admin back-end of the site to edit user accounts, it would mis...

Saw this on slashdot, the new beta of IE8 actually uses more system resources than Windows XP ! I assume some of that is unoptomized code, and some is probably testing code or something. But still, only Microsoft could take something as simple as a web browser and bloat to the point where it uses more resources that then entire XP operating system. Amazing! Pretty soon we'll all need dual quad-core systems just to go check our gmail accounts.

Hope everyone is getting some much deserved rest. I am, sort of... I'm getting a lot of chores done, that I just don't have time to get to during the week, and don't feel like doing on the weekend. Anyone else think it's funny that it's just a one-day holiday when people who work for living must make up like 99.5% of this country? Oh well, take what you can get!