If I remember right, Google doesn’t offer Chrome to Mac users right now, but plans to in the future. I think we all wish for a standard for both PC’s and Mac’s! Sure would make things easier from a browser compatibility standpoint.

Moan-Groan. I can’t stand IE and now a new one. I went to the link you have for Chrome and it says download for PC. I’m on a MAC. All these different browsers are like dealing with the Tower of Babel. How about a standard? My wish.

Anita

I’m exactly like you. I resist installing new programs for the same reasons you mentioned. I often have to be forced into upgrading programs and installing updates, because I’m always concerned about what affect it will have on my computer.

While I haven’t spent a whole lot of time with Chrome, my experience with it so far has been positive. It has a minimalist design and seems very light on the system resources it uses.

It allows you to import all your settings, passwords, bookmarks and history from your other browsers. I happen to really like that feature.

There’s also a lot less “junk” at the top of the Chrome browser window than other browsers, so you can see more of the page from top to bottom.

Another advantage it has over other browsers is that if you have numerous tabs open and one tab ends up crashing, it will crash that tab only and won’t crash the entire browser. I’ll have a tab crash on me in Firefox every so often, and it always crashes all my open tabs.

So far, while browsing in Chrome, the biggest compatibility issue I’ve seen on web sites is pictures overlapping text and covering portions of text up so it’s rendered unreadable. Because of that, people will definitely want to check to see how their web sites and blogs display in Chrome.