While Chrome is a great browser, I feel it still falls short of Firefox and is inferior in almost every way. First, what it does right.
Faster than Firefox. Yes faster, but it wasn’t a deal breaker. I will gladly go back to Firefox.
Separates processes for each tab. So if 1 Tab craps out, your entire browser does not. This is one that is a clear winner for Chrome.
No restart require for extensions. Again not a deal breaker.
Now for my gripes:
No clearing of cache on exit. This is a crucial shortcoming that I don’t understand why google hasn’t implemented this to begin with. Maybe it has something to do with their data-mining methods through chrome. Or maybe it was just a clear oversight.
Still does not have the extensions to back it up. Things I missed were youtube downloader, fireftp, and logmein plugin. It reminds me of iOS vs Android. While I like Android as a platform, I still feel the App support behind iOS makes a jailbroken iOS device better than android. This is a whole new blog entry that I will probably cover someday.
Shares some settings with IE such as proxy. I guess this really isn’t a problem, but I would like the ability to have separate proxy for each browser.
Still does not render pages properly for less standardized sites. My work uses a bunch of proprietary web apps that do not render/work properly in Chrome. I found myself using IETab for ever tab in Chrome. Which completely defeats the purpose.
Direct opening of downloads for certain file types were poorly implemented. Sometimes I want to download an excel file and just view it. I don’t want it to dl it somewhere and then I’ll have to click it on the download bar.
