Alright, haven’t posted anything to by blog for little over 9 months now and it is time to get back. And what better way to do that to follow up on the last post.
It was about Google Chrome and I had put up 4 complaints. All those complaints were resolved quickly somehow (not because of my post though) and I am still a happy Chrome user at office where I have a Windows PC. I am on Dev Channel, hence get updates every few days and it mostly works for what I do.
At home is different story now. I’ve switched to Mac and don’t have any Windows machine any more. (Well I have but I don’t use it!). I’ve been using FireFox and Safari on home Mac (an iMac and MacBook Pro to be precise) and just this week installed Alpha official build of Chrome. It does not work for me yet as it does not have basic things like Flash at this time.
So I am on Safari 4.0 as of today with FireFox for backup. Will love to use Chrome but not sure how long I have to wait till a working official version is released.
Google Chrome is gonna stay, big time. That is what I feel after using it for a long while. It might become 1st or 2nd most popular browser soon too. I got no hesitation to recommend using it even to novice users.
Google today announced the release of their own browser which I have been using with not so many problems so far. Still it has some issues here and there:
- It can’t open PDF (and maybe other) files. You have to save those to disk and then open in Adobe Reader
- The only Java version which works with it is 1.6.0_10 which is still a Release Candidate. Installing it may break other Java applications.
- JavaScript parsing is not perfect. I have noticed that some AJAX based web application (think New Facebook interface) do not work perfectly.
- There is no Full Screen mode.
Still, the UI is better than both IE/FireFox and finally someone has put the tabs at right place (at top). Worth a try.
Typhoon Nuri is here in Hong Kong today. It is still signal 9 hoisted, one lower the highest possible of 10. Winds are very strong out here and city is in lock-down mode. All offices, stock markets, shops and public transport is shut.
I just went downstairs of my building to take some pictures shown below. All of HK media was here to cover typhoon. A lot of people like me were also downstairs to ‘experience’ typhoon during a short span of no rain.
A Beijing Olympics countdown sign inside Central MTR (underground mass transit rail system) in Hong Kong.
Those of us who have been to China are used to bad Chinese to English translation of signs and menus (done usually online via tools like Babelfish) but this one is hilarious.
The translation FAILED and it was printed as is!
via: AdFreak
