Review of: Google Chrome Web Browser (Beta)

1/5 (minimum 1)

by Paddy on 05 Sep 2008

Oh dear, what a disappointment. I presume there’s something about my bog-standard Win XP machine that is upsetting the first beta release (0.2.149.27 (1583)) because it’s simply not rendering pages correctly. Almost all the mainstream sites that I’ve tried look a complete mess. Reinstallation and rebooting haven’t resolved this so I’ve uninstalled and will stick with Firefox which, with a few add-ins, has much of the best functionality (see http://lifehacker.com/5044518/enable-chromes-best-features-in-firefox) but without the privacy concerns over the omnibox.

No doubt the rendering problems I’ve seen are fairly rare but Firefox and even IE betas have always worked without hitch so for Chrome I’m afraid it’s a no sale. I’ll leave others to review the features that I never really got to explore.

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Google Chrome Web Browser (Beta)

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Homepage: http://www.google.com/chrome