It might be my fault (Google Chrome)

Member Name: Donf18

Product:	Google Chrome
Date:	03/07/09 (105 review reads)
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Advantages: Quicker and more comforable to use

Disadvantages: crashes more frequently than I.E.

I'm funny when it comes to browsers I guess you just get used to the one you use and find it strange when you try out a new one. I currently use I.E. 8 but find it freezes every so often, and have as yet not decided if it is the browser or my PC which is causing the problem, anyhow I decided to give Google Chrome a try and see how good it was since I had heard nothing but good things about it.

After doing a Google search I found the download site and proceeded to get the download. It was all really simple and easy and within half an hour I had the new browser available on my computer. The first thing I noticed was that the page load time had significantly reduced meaning my webpages were loading a lot faster, which is a good thing. I have however found that certain websites seem to take and eternity to load, especially if they are graphics heavy.

The overall look and feel of Google Chrome is very good and I feel quite comfortable with its interface, it doesn't take nearly as long as I thought to re-adjust to the different layout. I particularly like the option of having your favourite favourites lined up along the top of the screen just under the address bar which is larger than I.E's address bar. Everything about Google Chrome does appear to be more logical than I.E and although things are placed differently this is not inconvenience after about 30 mins in the new browser.

Within the tools option you can freely set up Chrome to be just the way you want, you can delete history and even open windows incognito, which means the sites visited here are not recorded, which unless you are doing something top secret or illegal is something I have never quite seen the point of. I have been using it now for a few months off and on and although on the whole it is a better and faster browser than I.E. I have had several cases of it crashing which is really irritating. On restart of the browser you can have it restore you previous browsing, but the chances are the crash had peed you off so much that you just start from fresh again.

It is for the crashing reason alone that I have now found myself back with my old and trusted I.E or on the odd occasion Firefox which I have also found to have benefits over both other browses mentioned, and again some minor glitches that have forced me to return to I.E

I STILL USE chrome now and then, and I still think it is a really good browser, as I touched on initially I was unable to determine my I.E. crashes and I therefore might have to conclude that the problems I had with Chrome were not entirely Chrome's fault but a fault somewhere within my operating system. Since I have no inclination to start searching for the problem which might or might not exist, I'm going simply to stick with I.E for now, since as things stand it is still the one which works for the longest without any problems.

Summary: Probably the best overall if the crashes are ignored.

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