Yesterday i stated "it must offer me some way to configure its options.....so there is no excuse for not having an options/settings UI". This could possibly be interpreted to mean that Chrome has no configuration options at all, when it does in fact have some. It kind of has some very basic tab configuration, you can clear the stored cookies and history, and there are some basic security settings, but not a lot else.
But wait, there's more!! In the last 24 hours i have found a few more things to have a spew about:
- my machine is 64bit, running a 64 bit operating system. So why did the Chrome installer decide to install the 32 bit (x86) version of the application? Is it because some lazy slack ass developers have not compiled an x64 version? There must be something like 10 billion 64 bit machines out in the wild by now, so why is there no 64 bit version of Chrome?
- if i go to the options and try to change the proxy settings.... WAIT ONE COTTON-PICKING MOMENT!!!!! Changing those proxy settings is also going to change the proxy settings for IE, and any other application that uses a plugin browser component, such as Windows Explorer, my RSS reader, Outlook, etc. WTF???!!!! Why doesn't Chrome use it's own set of proxy settings, instead of relying on the system ones? Firefox and Opera both have their own settings, why couldn't Chrome?
- i can clear the browser history, but i can't alter any other history settings, like how long to keep it. I don't want my history retained. When i type Ctrl-T to open a new tab, i don't want a bunch of "you recently visited these sites" links. I want that new tab to be empty, with the focus already set to the address bar so that i can start typing. This is how real men browse, only weenies and Mac fanboi's want a bunch of recently visited links automatically populated onto their new tab.
- it is OPEN SOURCE!!!! OMG!!! GASP!!! Yawn. Like the world hasn't already had umpteen open source browsers*, like a very famous one called, ummm, "Mozilla Firefox". Exactly what was the point of making it open source? Is it because that is the trendy thing to do at the moment? Or was it done that way so that Google could put their hand on their heart and swear on their mother's grave that "honestly, we are not trying to take over the world and 0wn all your base, and track everything you type in the address bar and every site you visit and send lots of secret tracking data to our great database in the sky, honestly, just check our source code"? Yeah right. Unlike a lot of morons out there, i do not trust or respect a product any more simply because it is open source. What is the point in releasing YAOSB? (Yet Another Open Source Browser).
I know that Chrome is in beta (and probably will be for the next three decades), but the only feature that has impressed me so far is the rendering speed. The rest of the browser has been somewhat underwhelming.
*Don't believe me? Check this link, scroll about halfway down, look at the table immediately underneath the General Information heading. Remember, those are just the browsers that made it big. Now check Sourceforge, there are about one zillion OSS web browsers under development there. I think that is enough to prove the point, we don't need to go check the various other publicly open source repositories.
Keywords: google, chrome, open source software
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