OK this has nothing to do with children’s books, but I can’t help posting about this.
I am LOVING Google Chrome. I am not a huge fan of everything Google does. I got on the wave the first week the wading pool opened up–splashed around for a couple of days and never went back. It’s cool, alright, but just doesn’t scratch a felt itch for me.
But this Google Chrome is a different animal altogether. I love it. Everything is so convenient. You type your search terms right into the URL address window, you can download a bunch of helpful extensions. You can save your favorite pages on the toolbar. And if you misspell a word as you type, it underlines it in red. You don’t have to go up to the top of the page to click on “spell check” for the whole page.
I know that a lot of people don’t like Amazon or Google or any other company that they think gets too big for its britches. But I’ve always thought that good work should be rewarded. I think the company that best serves my needs should get my business. Not that I’ve ever paid Google anything for their email, maps, calendar, or browser services. I have paid for Google Earth, but that’s all I’ve done. The rest is free.
I can’t see a downside, here.
I haven’t tried Chrome yet, but it seems as though everything you’ve mentioned here I already get in Firefox web browser. I love how Firefox spell checks everything, including blog comments and all fields in a form. I use Morning Coffee, an add-on that loads my handful of top favorite websites in separate tabs.
I never paid for Google Earth. I thought it was completely free. Do you have a premium version or something?
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Google Chrome does remind me a lot of Firefox. I love Firefox and used to use it exclusively until it crashed on me once and I lost all my favorites files. I switched back to IE at that time because most people use IE and I figured I should use it too so I knew what my blog looked like to most people. When I was using Firefox, I’d forget to check my blog in IE. It would look great in Firefox and then I’d find out that it was broken in IE.
But I don’t like IE much and it kept crashing on me recently so I finally decided to go with a different browser and I chose Google Chrome over firefox because I could put an IE tab right on it. Maybe you can do that with firefox now but you didn’t used to be able to do that. You could open pages in IE but it took two clicks. In Chrome it takes just one. Minor thing.
Earth is free but I upgraded one year because I wanted to get a certain kind of picture that wasn’t available on the free version. It was cheap–24 bucks a year.
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