Over on eConsultancy, blogger Drama 2.0 has posted an interesting look at Google’s much-heralded new browser, Chrome, and pointing to the disappointment that seems almost palpable for its lack of ‘points of difference’.
Chrome: last amongst equals?
I’ve used Chrome a bit – and I note that some Sandlines readers do, too – and somewhat more than the average figure shown in Drama 2.0′s report (which were 0.85% trending down to 0.77%).
But what does it offer that’s different? Currently, nothing dramatic – in fact, it misses a lot of the plugins that make Firefox my browser of choice (CoolIris, Delicious integration…).
There are some small nice-to-haves, but it feels more like a marker (some might say a line in the sand!) than a fully fledged competitive offering.
One thing seems sure: the enthusiastic “Chrome will take over the world” response to its initial (high) take up looks premature. Once again, substance will have to out over hype.
What I was hoping for was something to live up to the claim that Chrome would rethink the way we use the internet. It was going to unleash a new ability to support cloud computing. It was the browser built for the multiplex cinema experience the internet can be in today’s Web 2.0/tomorrow’s Web 3.0 world, rather than the hushed libraries of Web 1.0.
Maybe I’ve got the wrong prescription contact lenses, ’cause I can’t see it in the Chrome 1.0.
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heh.