Google Chrome and the Unnecessary Reinvention of the Wheel
In early September, the folks at Google quietly unveiled their Google Chrome web browser, intended to make yet another huge impact upon the market. The fact of the matter is people just aren’t catching on to the hype the folks at Google were obviously banking on.
Certainly, Google has become a regularly used word, ultimately making it a verb in the process that many people use when they mean to search for something. This is great and all, but Google can’t expect a one-two punch with everything they create, and the beta version of Chrome leaves much to be desired.
Look at the fact that Google Chrome still only has a very small percentage of market share with users, even after being on the market for nearly two months. Hacks and bugs have plagued the browser since its release, and the Google homepage has even stopped advertising for Google Chrome.
Many in the blogosphere feel it would have benefited the internet behemoth more to have created a plug-in to be used with Firefox, which already has a prolific amount of plug-ins, with more in the pipeline. Google and Firefox have worked together in the past, which begs the question: why go out and try to reinvent the wheel?
Google Chrome has tried in vain to change the way we use browsers, thinking it would be more intuitive, but ultimately falling short of its aims. It is a disappointment of great proportions for those who thought Google would certainly not put out a product with so many holes left to be filled.
Then again, it is an open-source work-in-progress, which means someone out there may just be willing to cure Google’s ails. One just has to wonder—will it be too late when that finally happens?
This post was contributed by Kelly Kilpatrick, who writes on the subject of how to become a travel agent. She invites your feedback at kellykilpatrick24 at gmail dot com
I have been trying google chrome for a couple of weeks now (A while after your post it seems). It has been a very nice browser, It’s fast and slim and seems to have none of the bugs you mentioned at all so far so perhaps most have been ironed out.
But…….. there is no substitute for firefox with adblocking. My browsing is and always will be faster without ads. Unless something becomes available like this for chrome it will never be my browser of choice. I seriously doubt google want this and Privoxy is poor. So i have to agree, this new wheel just isn’t round enough!
Some good comments on Chrome, I did try it for a while and found it sometimes closed itself down. I’ll always be a Firefox user through and through.