Google Chrome... gonna try it out

So, after the demise of Firevortex (the extension that used to be for VWVortex that gave it some ease of use things that the new forum software already has) I kept using Firefox... however my new PC is CONSTANTLY crashing with Firefox. Brand new build of Windows 7 x64 and everytime it launches, it crashes... it does this 2 to 3 times and then works for a while

Today, I decided to try Chrome.

It's been sitting idle on my PC for a few months now. It even recently updated itself.

I logged in today and it says "Now with extensions!"

So I checked the extensions and I found a few I thought I'd try. Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Gmail. Installed those 4 and I didn't need to even restart chrome. They're just sitting in the top bar rather unobtrusive.

The facebook thing is pretty nice. It drops down a nice news feed, you can update facebook from it. It's nice. Slim and fast.

Twitter is the same way (I think the app is called Chrome'd Bird). Nice, clean, fast, slim app.

The Blog app could be a little better. It does "Blog This"... so if you hit the big orange B it gives you a popup window where you can compose the blog entry (like I'm doing now)

It auto-populates the page your on. So, at the bottom, you'll see a link to chrome.

The Gmail thing is surprisingly NOT that good... In fact, there's no real google support for most of chrome. That's odd and ironic considering it's a GOOGLE product. The Gmail thing just shows a gmail logo and a number for how many emails you have. Nice, but doesn't support multiple mailboxes. Maybe there's a better app.

The thing that bothers me the most? Google Bookmarks aren't integrated into Chrome Bookmarks. WHY!?

I had to export them and re-import them into Chrome. Then I had to make a button to 'add to google bookmarks' but the problem is that once I actually add something, I'll need to re-export and re-import.

Otherwise, i think Chrome is slick, fast and (at this point) only using 70MB of memory with my 3 normal tabs running... Firefox would be 210MB or more at this point.

I'd recommend it.

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