Kudos for Chrome
I have just downloaded and had a play with Chrome (Google's new browser). First impressions are:
- It is very fast. It opens quickly from scratch and it renders pages very quickly - much faster on both counts than IE and Mozilla.
- Having results-as-you-type for both web pages and Google search results in the URL bar is very nice.
- The layout is minimalist. Time will tell if they have hidden too much away, but so far I have been OK with it.
- So far, I like not having a set home page. Rather, the home page is a montage of your most visited pages... very nifty.
Using Chrome to browse around Aconex was great. I have found no issues so far with rendering of pages or the like. The only issue was if you wanted to use the online mark-up viewer (which is a Java applet) then you needed to reinstall the Java Runtime Environment. This is because when you install the JRE, it only installs the plug-ins for your current browser(s). Since I had installed JRE before Chrome, I needed to reinstall it to get the Chrome plug-in. That was very straightforward, and the online viewer worked just fine. Incidentally, I installed Java 6 (1.6.0_10-rc-b28 to be exact), which is a beta.
Of course, since most collaboration providers offer viewers that only work on Internet Explorer, it's not something their clients will need to worry about!
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