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Chrome : Not bad, but not great
by collier
Nicely uncluttered, and seems pretty speedy thus far...faster than my recently-installed Firefox 3.0.1, which was lagging big-time and which made me go "oh yay, new Google browser!" But the following three things mean I'm going back, alas, to Firefox:

* CTRL-ScrollWheel doesn't go forward/back in your history. Nor does any other logical combination of [Key]-ScrollWheel that I tried.

* Closing a tab should (yes, like in Firefox) result in being sent back to the last ACTIVE tab...not just the next adjacent tab to the left. More clicking. Forget it.

* I use a cgi IRC web interface daily, and the text input box at the bottom of the page is blocked by Chrome's "Waiting for site.com..." dialog box. Which means I can't see the first thirty characters of what I'm typing (unless I very carefully place my mouse over the dialog box, which bumps it down). BOOOO.

Nice and streamlined, so points for that, but "fix it or forget it."
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