Tom Brokaw":2wvvmy60 said:
I'd like to hear from some of Chrome's more articulate evangelicals: why do you like it, and what makes you recommend it to others?
I don't know if I am that level of supporter but I do love it. The way it's designed seems intuitive to me. It's always fast. Though there are a few main points that keep me using it and why I recommend it.
It renders web pages differently then Firefox and IE, they look different. Pages look better in Chrome, the gamma seems to be slightly higher then FF and the text lighter, yet easy to read. Same for IE, but IE looks better then FF and on some sites better then Chrome to me. Then there are sites like AICN for example where text in FF shows up much smaller and almost double bold'ed which looks very bad.
It does not lag for me like Firefox sometimes does. Like for instance when I load ARS in FF after doing a CCleaner run, it will occasionally cause the browser to become unresponsive, I can't drag the window or load another tab. It happens with other sites as well. It is very annoying.
I love how it takes up screen real estate. I have FF at 9.01 and in it the top part takes up more viewing space then Chrome yet provides less functionality unless I turn on Menu Bar, but that then extends it down even more and looks really out of place. IE 9 is better then Chrome in this regard, except I much prefer Chrome's longer address bar, and the general look of it with its rounded edge and folders for tabs. I also like the Add Ons I can use in Chrome, which I know are in FF, but not in IE, and I like how easy they are to find and run.
So to recap, the visual style is better for me, the exceptionally high speed and responsiveness, the lack of issues, the better rendering of web pages I commonly visit, and the add on support.
If it was not for the Add Ons, I think I would quite like using IE 9, it is very fast and renders well, but no Ad Block just kills it for me.
