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Hihi, first funny bug already found. Nothing serious, but it shows how much work the browser needs to get “stable”. You are using Chrome? Don’t hover this link then

The curious monkey wrote his own review. If you liked mine it might be interesting for you to read (psst, we should Blogroll)

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UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13. Chrome is live! Some people seem to have problems downloading it but the working download is right here.

First impressions:

1. It can import my Internet Explorer preferences, bookmarks and passwords. Not from my Firebox, but that might have to do with me using the portable edition.
2. Funny how most visited is designed. Really good overview with website previews, recently bookmarked list and a search history option.
3. Too less options. How, for example, can I reject ALL cookies, except for listed domains?
   
4. Funny, it has a “porno mode”: “You’ve gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.“
5. Tabs dragged to a new window are not considered a new window. I therefor cannot align them with Windows.
6. Zooming in and out is NOT as it is supposed to be.
7. Ahhhhh, no support for add-ons (yet?)
8. I see options for Google Gears, but the option to enable it has been removed from my WordPress admin page. Errrrrr…

Cnet reported Google is working on an internet browser from scratch, meaning not based on other browsers. They based this on a web comic book. While the illustrations, created by cartoonist Scott McCloud, were not announced by Google, they do contain the quotes and likenesses of 19 Google developers. The browser would be named Crome and written with Webkit. I’m not sure if we should believe comic books as news these days…

Update!

Chrome is coming! It will be released Tuesday. So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. They’ll post an update here as soon as it’s ready.