intertwingly

I took the Early Access version of Google Chrome for Linux for a spin.

There appears to be a typo on the “getting-involved” page itself, the name of the directory on Ubuntu is /etc/default not /etc/defaults.

I first tried it on my desktop.  That didn’t last long as I found the fonts to be abominable.

I then tried it on my netbook.  There I had no issue with the fonts.  The performance of this “early access” release of Chrome is clearly better than 3.0.10 Firefox for my typical usages (e.g., gmail), though to be fair that’s clearly comparing effectively a year old codebase against one that is presumably targeted for sometime in 2H09.  What ended up being an issue there was my inability to manage bookmarks or get a change to the value of the homepage to stick.  That, and an inability to recognize a self-signed certificate that I use for a private application that I host within my firewall.  I also found that I missed the ability to use / as a shortcut for “find”.

I don’t see me changing my usage on my desktop as I don’t currently have any “pain points” with Firefox, but I can definitely see me switching on my NetBook later this year if Chrome continues to be appreciably faster that the version of the browser that ships with Karmic Koala.