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Google Chrome - first impressions

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

Wow, nice job MS

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.

Happy Labor Day!

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!