Not so fast, Google

Just a while ago, I installed Google Chrome for my housemate and showed him the features of Google Chrome. He was very impressed and asked me a question, "Who's gonna use Firefox now?" So for him, for my dear friend Ferdaus and to anyone who is starstruck by Google Chrome, read this article: 10 things we'd like to see in Google Chrome. It covers 10 very good points of why Firefox still reigns supreme and adds some good arguments on top of mine as to why I'm not that impressed with Google Chrome yet. I mean, Google Chrome has speed backing it up and the application start time is insanely fast. I tested it on my Vista PC and the application itself starts faster than opening folders.

And for those people creaming themselves over Chrome's ability to add a shortcut to web-applications on your Desktop - Prism for Firefox 3 does exactly that. Google still has a long way to go. But let's give them credit - they tried to take everything that Mozilla created (along with Webkit - the rendering engine that Safari is famous for) and put it all together and it's still in the Beta stages so you never know where they're headed.

But for now, I'm not impressed at all - especially by the fact that Google couldn't release a cross-platform browser and is still working on it. They took forever for Google Desktop to make it to Linux. There's still no Google Talk for Linux. But people are comparing Google's effort with Mozilla's? Mozilla Labs release most of their products for all platforms on the same day.