Ok so everyone, their mama, and her pet hamster have written an article about google chrome. Ive also read an interesting article that some-what theorizes on a google os based on chrome in the distant future. Only interesting b/c of what I have been planning to do.
First off, I read about people complaining over initial memory consumption of Google Chrome. I dont know why but I feel a need to state my opinion on the matter. What I care about most is a responsive system and chrome does that, short and simple. If i were to liken chrome to something id say starting an instance of google chrome is like typing
$> ls
at a command prompt. Its freaggin fast. Period. Running chrome nay interferes with most anything else i do. That is using it on a core 2 duo laptop with 2 gigs of ram and a amd64 desktop with 1 gig of ram. Just a quick statement of facts. Anyway, im not really interested in the distant future, what i AM interested in is the possibility of now. Honestly with very few modifications i would use chrome as a full shell replacement, on both linux and windows. Here’s my wish list,
- A better file manager
- the ability to launch local programs from the address bar