Can you put more light on the subject?

Thanks
Amit

I’ve been reading your blog since quite some time and I do appreciate the quality of your reviews/commends etc about all the things you write about. And I must say I was humbled by your comment about eating your hat (or something to that effect) when you acknowledged that Hulu is here to stay. (again, something to that effect) but quite frankly I’ve been pretty disappointed with your review of Google’s Chrome.

No doubt the experience so far (3-4 days or so?) has been good and it is a faster browser with no doubt a sleeker interface but it still has a long time to go before it reaches up to the level that Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera or other browsers have reached.

Chrome offers basic web browsing functionalities (with faster JS execution) but apart from that, what can you talk about. Almost all the features that are being talked about are already in IE/FF/O and quite frankly, have become a hype because of the comic book which accidentally got released. Knowing how Google has launched products like GMAIL in the past, I have quite a big doubt about how much of an accident it actually was.

So its got stats of each page – tell me frankly, how many times do you expect the geekiest of webdevelopers (a community im a part of) to actually look at that. Yes it gives you more spaces on the screen but there are single-click ways to accomplish that in IE/FF and Opera already has a good screen space available.

Yes its got a download manager but it automatically downloads every file which any website offers for download without giving you the option to cancel it. I am not quite sure I would want my family to use a browser just in case my siblings or parents accidentally visit a website which sends lots of spyware on my home computer.

Does it have support for extensions? spell check? good bookmark management. I would also like to see my commonly used shortcuts like Gmail/google reader on a toolbar link.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge Google/Microsoft fan, would love working for them as their products meet the kind of work that I do and use quite a many of their products to the point that my friends often ask me am I their spokesperson but I think the world has decided that Microsoft is Evil, Google is great and Firefox is good (or make that just OK as Google’s Chrome is here now).

I have my reservations about Google’s not being evil statement as when Google buys DoubleClick – its next major competitor but when Microsoft tries buying some company, Google cries foul over its blog and suddenly the whole world is against that. Google winked and almost got away with that controversial clause in Chrome’s EULA but for one second, try imagining a similar situation with Microsoft instead of Google and they would have probably been slapped by millions of fine by EU and others.

Stating that Google’s Chrome is the reason Cloud computing is going to go places is naive considering that its been not more than a week since its been launched putting the efforts of the IE/FF/O team non-existing.