Chrome is cool and all, but I'm not switching yet.
Here are some reasons:
- There's no save password checkbox for sites requiring http user/password authentication.
- The find feature doesn't search through the content of inputs or textareas.
- Why do I have to hear a ding every time I hit Alt+D to get to the address bar?
- I can't seem to always allow popups from a specific site.
- There are no hot plugins yet (Cooliris/PicLens, Web Developer, FireNES, HttpFox, IETab, Grease Monkey).
- I can't right click a non-focused tab and press "C" to close it.
- The right click save as hot key is "k", as if my left hand is anywhere near the damn "k" key when my right hand is pressing the right mouse button. At least they chose "E" to copy a shortcut. Although that pisses me off too, because I already had to convert from using "T" to "A" (IE to FireFox).
- Instead of 1 process taking up 60mb memory, I have 3 processes taking up 20mb each? I'm not convinced that that's better.
- The popup blocker is a joke and broken.
- The popup blocker doesn't work: http://astalavista.box.sk/
- When the popup blocker does block a popup, it will still load the content of the page (I verified this using the Task Manager [Shift+ESC]).
- The status bar implementation is kind of annoying, I would prefer to lose 20px of height to have a proper status bar.
- For web pages without <title>s, the title remains "Loading...", which is kind of silly.
- Opening langdonx.com in a new, not yet focused tab jacks it up... maybe they forgot to execute my onresize() event? Ctrl+Click the previous link to see what I'm talking about.
- You lose what you've typed in input fields when you refresh (much like IE, unlike FF3).
And some things they got right:
- Interesting subsequent alert suppression feature (example), although the checkbox turns it off for good, with no obvious way to turn it back on.
- Dragging tabs from window to window is OK, but I can't imagine ever doing it.
- The task manager is neat, but generally useless.
- about:memory is pretty cool, but generally useless.
- Unlike FireFox, you can actually use the context menu key on your keyboard to fix spell check mistakes in an input box or textarea.
- It's open source... which means if I were so inclined, I could fix over half of the things I mentioned above.