Why is that when Google announces a new application or product, the Google fanatics come out of woodwork? Not everything Google produces are as good as those people make them out to be. In my own opinion, the Google search and Gmail are the top performers and everything else is ho-hum. I'm talking about everything from their RSS feedreader (Google Reader) to their browser (Google Chrome). Speaking of Google Chrome…

Google Chrome

As much as I want to use Google Chrome instead of Firefox or Internet Explorer, it's still full of bugs and lacks the ability to add extensions to the stable version. The fanatics will advise me to use the developer version, but I won't. I prefer the automatic updates to the stable version because I know it's going to be less prone to crashing. Even without the extensions, I wish I could use it full-time, but I can't. There are just some things I can't do without, that I get with Firefox.

Google Chrome is lighter and faster than Firefox — forget about Internet Explorer for the time being because it's not even a contender as far I'm concerned. In fact, I haven't intentionally used it since version 8 came out. I'm a patient man, however, and I'm more than content to wait until Chrome is as bug-free as it can possibly be. I use it for some specialized tasks, nothing more, and it suits me just fine right now for those tasks.

Google Chrome OS

Ever since Google announced development of the Google Chrome OS there has been a ton of fake screenshots published on popular blogs. If you add all the theories surrounding the operating system, you'd think it would be the next best thing since sliced bread.

The truth is, other than it being designed to work on netbooks at first and that it's intended as an OS for web applications, there isn't much information available. Anything else is just conjecture until the first version release announcement is made.

Google Chrome Frame

This particular browser enhancement, designed for Internet Explorer users, is fairly new. Google Chrome Frame is designed as an add-on for Internet Explorer which activates when a website containing a specific meta tag is encountered.

Microsoft doesn't like it, of course, because it causes pages to render faster than their own browser engine and it conforms to web standards more than IE. I'm thinking of adding the meta tag to all of my sites very soon, like today or tomorrow, and adding the extension to IE on my PC, even though I don't use it.

Google Chrome Infatuation

Judging by the number of people that comment on all the blogs and forums controlled by Google, calling those people infatuated is an understatement. I'm not one of those people — I use whatever I deem works best for me regardless of who makes it.

I don't know about other people, but I get tired of hearing about Chrome this or that every other day. It's almost as bad as the Windows 7 discussions and I'm happy with XP. Some people are so enamored by Chrome, they use the Google Chrome theme for WordPress or the Google Chrome theme for Blogger.

That's just too much for me to handle.

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