I was just reading something about Internet Explorer’s falling market share and decided to check how many visitors to this site still use it.
Very few IE users. In fact, Chrome users are almost catching up them already. Stunning growth from Chrome (which is my favorite browser, by the way). If you’re not using Chrome, I highly suggest you have a go. ::
UI excellence often comes in the form of doing the little things well. One of the things I really enjoy about Chrome is that when you search within a page, the scrollbar tells you where on the page the term is found.
Above I’ve done a search for ‘fallacy’ and you can see on the right where Chrome has left little yellow marks indicating where all the hits are. So clean. ::
It’s official now. With Chrome now having extensions there’s very little reason to use Firefox anymore.
I’ve been using Chrome for the last several months already, just because I hate the slow, unstable mess that firefox has become. But firefox always had a redeeming quality: extensions.
That differentiating factor is no more.
This month may be remembered as the month that Google landed the defining blow in the browser market.
The wait is over. Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta. It’s still missing a few features that are in the Windows version (like support for extensions), but the browser is lickety-split and more-or-less stable.
I’ve been holding off really using Chrome until now. But I’m ready for something faster and less crashy than Firefox. (Crosses fingers).
Right from the gate, you can apply themes from a gallery to trick out your browser. Are you more into gnomes (”Infected Mushroom” theme) or blurred out images of the Brooklyn Bridge (”Donna Karan” theme)? Yeah, I’m gonna stick to the minimal default look. Although one thing that takes getting used to is the almost complete lack of toolbar real estate. Where are all the buttons?
One little feature I like, which Chrome borrows from Safari, is that when you click on a new tab, it shows you a gallery of recent sites you’ve visited. And you can drag a tab off to detach it as a separate window. Handy.
Information provided by CrunchBase
Meh, I use nightly’s anyway. But still an overall win for the progress of Chrome on Mac.
If you’re into minimalist GTD systems, you should look into Google Tasks.
It’s good stuff, but now there’s an extension for it in Chrome.
Plus, it’s pretty clean and functional from within the iPhone as well:
Check it out. ::
So, most of us have heard about Google offering public DNS services now. What most don’t know is that there are three (3) IPs available currently rather than just two (2). Here they are, in one place:
And, yeah, they’re fast. I’m pinging them sub 1.5ms from this server, and DNS responses from them are blazing.
::
* I’ll be updating this post as Google announces more IPs, as a reference for myself and anyone else.
tcpdump Tutoriallsof Tutorialfind and xargs