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Now that I have had a couple of weeks to try out Chrome, Google’s new Web Browser, I can finally give it a review.

Based on the kind of work I do, the browser is my most useful tool. No other software comes close in terms of hours spent in heavy usage than my trusty web browser. But I also heavily rely on Google Apps, especially Gmail , Google Analytics, Google Calendar, and, well just about all of it. So, I expected that Chrome would be better suited to handle Gmail than Firefox, since both are Google Products. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Forget that fact that there are no handy plugins like BetterGmail2 that I can use with Chrome, let’s just focus on usability: Firefox is more usable, in just about every way. With FF, I can paste pretty much everything into a composed email and it will line up properly. With Chrome, it lacks the intuitive style of FF to know what I want to do… Simple pasting of content copied off the web becomes a chore, rather than a convenience.

Scrolling with my mouse-wheel is another weakness in Chrome, or strength in FF. FF intuitively knows what I want to have happen when I move that thing up and down. With Chrome, I have to add a couple of extra clicks to get the mouse wheel to function the way it should function.

In all fairness, Chrome is in it’ first beta release, and all of these perks have not made it’s way in yet, plausibly, and so I’ll give it another try in version 1.0. For now, thank God for Firefox!

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Google is launching a new web browser, available now in Beta version, known as “Chrome“.   While in my line of work, my web browser is by far the most commonly used tool in my repertoire, I am curious to see how Chrome compares to Firefox. I already use just about all of Google’s products. A browser is a smart move for them, giving them total control of the software in which all of their apps are viewed, rather than relying on Firefox or IE to adhere to standards. This way, they can dictate the standards, and tailor their apps accordingly.

Read the Official Google Blog here

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.