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I also noticed the active links in view-source.  That’s a huge feature for me.  I’m always finding myself copying URLs from source and pasting.  It even works with relative URLs!

Sam Ruby on Google Chrome : Control-U takes me to the source of the page in a separate tab, with all of the lengthy lines line wrapped and line numbered. Best of all, all of the links are active. I simply find what I’m looking for, and click on it,...

One big problem with the Chrome view source.  It doesn’t show the current page’s source.  For example if you hit www.abc.com, then hit view source the source will match, no problem.  However if you hit www.abc.com, trigger an action which causes a POST back to site and a new page is displayed with new content then you hit view source you don’t see the current source you simply see the source for www.abc.com.  This is a deal breaker for me.

I really like gChrome for its speed (V8 JavaScript Engine) + clean look and feel (minimalist design). I suppose Google will keep it as simple as possible, targeting web surfers and not web developers, and that is a good thing. As for development, Firefox provide a lot of addons that will make you happy as a developer. I think Firebug is a great addon, it allows you to quickly “Inspect an Element” (Right click on a HTML element in the page, press Inspect Element and you’ll see the page source with that element highlighted, and even more, you’ll be able to edit the css properties of that element on the fly).

with it’s V8 engine and an extended view area for browsing, I tend to think that gChrome will be used as a platform for rich, AJAX web applications. I mean: developers that create complex web apps will suggest gChrome for end users.

Oh, man.  You just saved me hours of searching to figure out why Google Chrome wasn’t floating my menu.  Thanks!