Stuff and Nonsense

I’m now using Google Chrome as my browser of choice. It just works. It’s fast. If it dies only one tab dies. It does some things very differently and very nicely. Like downloads appearing at the bottom of the tab you just downloaded them in and staying there in case you need them. A stunning piece of common sense – why would you download something you don’t intend to use?

Unfortunately, I can’t use it at work yet because although its rendering is superb and as far as I can see every bit as good as FF3, IE7, IE8 and Safari and its built-in developer tools are better than all other browsers, it does not have the essential part of our development workflow – Firebug and html tidy. Until it has a plugin comparable to each, it must remain second fiddle at work. I’m using it of course for general purpose but not when I have any page development or testing to do and want the comfort of real-time validation and being able to monitor network requests

I will explore writing plugins myself of course. In reality I will never have the time or, more likely energy to actually implement anything of the sort. Someone though, WILL have the time and energy to create these plugins for Chrome and when they do my day will run just that bit faster and crash less often.