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I’m starting to feel for the team working on Internet Explorer at Microsoft. I mean, they are always one step behind. The other day I tried Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and although it has quite a few bugs in it, it is getting close to firefox standards. Then, just the other day, google releases Google Chrome a new web browser that combine both webkit (safari uses webkit) and mozilla, so you have mozilla looking rendering but with webkit’s extreme speeds.

So, anyway, this post is more aimed at google’s Chrome web browser, to tell you the truth, I love it, it’s in beta and I just LOVE it!! I’m sorry to say, but I am slowly switching to chrome from firefox (though, firefox, when FF4 comes out, I’ll give you another shot.)

In a quick dot-point form, here is why I LOVE Chrome over any other browser.

1. Multi-threading, for example, a standard web browser does this: Rendering HTML, waiting for HTML to render, html is now rendered, moving to javascript, waiting for javascript to render ETC ETC. Google’s Chrome renders them all at the same time.
2. Each tab has its own process, I guess you could say, so if one tab crashes, all your other tabs stay alive, and if your browser DOES crash, you can simply restore the last session.
3. Task manager for your tabs, very easy to use.
4. SPEED! This thing is blazingly fast, I thought firefox was fast, but, after a couple of javascript tests, chrome was close to 5x faster (with a cleared cache) than firefox (with a cached page) quite surprising if you ask me.
5. Simplicity, it’s just so simple, it all just works and as you’ll start to see more and more apps moving online, such as google docs, you’ll see that javascript will be a necessity, and it chrome just handles it so well.
6. New tab customisable page, you can have a grid of most visited sites on your own customisable page that opens when you click new tab, much like Opera’s Speed Dial.
7. Compact design - I want to look at the webpage not a whole bunch of toolbars.

I could go on, but seriously, just try the beta (click here) if you are on windows (or a mac/linux with a windows emulator.) Mac and Linux versions are probably going to come out in the near future. Do some comparisons with firefox or safari, this is one amazing browser, I hope they release a mobile version for symbian.

Just a few ideas with a bit of humor I guess :p Sorry about how there is no sound when I say death in two parts on the video, Adobe Premiere is really starting to annoy me..

Today I decided, I have a lot of crappy or now useless videos on youtube, such as talking about a stream date for my webcam that as already happened, there have also been some really stupid videos that weren’t REALLY that funny, so I have gotten rid of them.

So basically, gotten rid of all te crap/useless videos on my youtube page.

I HAD 116 videos roughly on public (over 130 if you include private)
I NOW have 0 vide.. I mean that would make sense because all my videos are quite embarrising, but I now have about 94 videos, so it’s been a big clean up!

I am also running out of bandwidth, I have about 30MB left, that 30MB could last us both another 2 days if my sister listened to me and reduced her bandwidth consumption.

No, seriously, this is REALLY getting on my nervs, I have been getting the blame for using all the internet past the last almost 12 months, when in actuall fact (we should only be using about 950MB a day at tops) when my sister uses it and not me we are using about 1,000MB, this SUCKS, that leaves me with -50MB to use, and it doesn’t really bother her because getting slowed down doesn’t affect many of the things she does, but it does for me, it means that I have to wait 2 hours to upload a 30MB file.. GAH, that usually takes 10 minutes or less depending how loadewd youtube is.

Oh, by the way, when I use it as WELL as her, we use about 1,300 - 1,500MB, some days it has been good and we both use about 900MB, others and I am talking about 10 days in this month, we have used more bandwidth, and it’s not at my end, I unplugged the intertubes for a day without telling her and she used well over 1,000MB and she doesn’t care..

THAT DOES IT! I am getting a job and renting my own line once the 100 MBps speed comes out.

BTW, this post was rushed, so me spelling may be worser than usui :p