Well, I got the chrome today and so must have many of you out there. I am just finished installing it on my laptop (it is a web installer) and have imported settings from Firefox. As I write this post from Chrome itself, I feel the browser needs a lot of testing before we come to any kind of conclusion.

As for the Fox fans, there’s nothing called plugins in Chrome (for that added functionality) so do not waste time in finding similarities between the two browsers.

I must mention here that my days with IE8 Beta2 are really great. Microsoft has really done a great makeover of it’s browser. What with all the new functionalities and all. This time IE8 has really taken the lead with innovation (with Chrome following it in some features).

Choose your browser carefully while I still stick to my Fox and test the rest.

Ever since Google announced (by mistake I guess) that they are launching there own browser called Chrome, there’s been a lot of buzz. It was expected to be launched on 2nd September 2008, Tuesday (yeah you tell me when Tuesday will come??? Of course, today is tuesday!).

I tried searching for a download link for Chrome on Google, and found out that there was in fact a website for Chrome at (http://gears.google.com/chrome) (don’t bother following that link, it’s dead). Apparently, after the Chrome comic book leak posted at Blogoscoped.com, Google took the Chrome site down and postponed the launch to 3rd of September.

All this has caused a lot of chromefusion, oops!, I mean confusion. So, I finally decided that in the end I should sit back and wait for the link to appear and for the browser to be made available for download on major sites like Download.com and Softpedia.com before I go hunting for it. Or maybe, I will try it one more time tomorrow??

I don’t know. But, whatever happens I love Firefox and plan to stick with it.

So, Google has finally made public it’s browser called Chrome :

As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

Microsoft has released Beta 2 of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. This is a wider beta release of the browser which has many improvements over Beta 1. It has features which were introduced by Firefox 3 a long time ago (well not exactly a loooong time ago but yes before IE8).

With the release of Firefox 3 being a major event this year, there’s been considerable buzz regarding new add-ons for the 3 and upgrades to popular extensions to enable support for the latest version: 3. Mozilla recently organized a contest to crown the best add-ons for Firefox.

Nokia PC Suite v7.0 is now available for download from Nokia. It is the first major version release since v6.0 so expect good amount of improvements in it. It supports majority of Nokia’s phones.

As per my analysis of the server logs of my site/blog and the general analysis of the data available on the web, I have found one thing and one thing only. By delaying in bringing Windows Vista to the consumers, Microsoft may have sounded the death knell for it’s latest operating system even before it’s launch. Actually the non-availability of a new version to the best version of Windows to-date, Windows XP, has hurt not only the consumers but Microsoft too. The result is easily visible before you. Windows XP reigns supreme while Vista struggles to make friends with consumers.

Ok, I think that I should let you know that I created a browser search plugin for MyBlogLog. But since the link has not been posted yet on this new theme, I would like to re-post it for you all.

CLICK HERE TO INSTALL THE MyBlogLog Search v1.0 v1.1 PLUGIN INTO YOUR BROWSER

MyBlogLog Search Plugin v1.1

Here’s a Portable version of Google Talk. This is a version again for use by persons who are on the go (like me ).

Try it and share your experiences people.

I am currently out of sync with my blog and my online life due to commitments and busy schedule. During these days I have been holidaying during my Eid-ul-Adha holidays which unfortunately will end tomorrow. I will be resuming work on Tuesday.

Anyway back to the topic now. These days, since I have been mobile, I found that the cafe that I am frequenting since the past 3 years uses DeepFreeze which resets the system back to it’s original form after you restart the system. So, I do use PortableFirefox for my browsing off my USB but I needed Yahoo! messenger. I did manage to find a portable version of Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 but I have to test it yet with me. I do know that it is going to be of some use anyway. I am going to give it a try and why don’t you too? If you are on a constant move like me?