Google Chrome for Linux
I have seen a variety of stories around the web extolling the virtues of the new browser from Google: Google Chrome. At the moment, it is still a beta available only for Windows and Mac, but it seems to be an, erm, internet browser I suppose.
To be perfectly honest and frank, I find it incredibly difficult to get excited about a web browser. To me, the browser is a tool, not a way of life. For comparison, go now and find a carpenter - I’ll wait. Got one? Good. Now explain to your carpenter that there is a new hammer available. Gauge the carpenter’s reaction. Now contrast and compare with all the hoopla over Google’s offering. Now decide who the hammer should be used on.
Gosh, I sound grumpy, don’t I? The fact is that Chrome looks like a decent offering. It has tabbed browsing, which we all should now expect. It has a way to import your bookmarks from your existing browsers, again, we should all expect that. It displays pages from the internet. The best thing, in my opinion, is that it is very minimal and there is little that is not functional about it:
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