shiny

Booted up our monstrous Dell desktop (machine of a thousand faults, don't buy one unless you have a thing for talking to people in call centres) to try out the Windows-only Beta of Google's much-hyped Chrome browser. On first look, it's a bit underwelming, being basically Firefox 3 with the Flock 2 startup page. It's very tidy and all, but that's really the only improvement on open-source browsers; i was really expecting little gizmos such as a RSS signal or something similar to Flock.

But then again, sleek and minimal puts it in Safari's range, and that's the market it's probably aiming for. Still, I wonder once the buzz dies will all the techies quietly remove it from their docks, or does it have enough to make it the default? Maybe the lack of bells and whistles will be what sells it after all.