Google Chrome - 7 days after - Updated review

So, after 6 days I've been using Chrome, I believe I got some updates on my views.

First of all, I'm using Chrome's last release, that I updated via a very intelligently auto upgradeable. The current version is 0.2.149.29.

• Pros

Speed: I can't deny that Chrome, even lacking the maturity of other browsers, is pretty fast. The start up time to get an empty browser is impressive.
Omnibox: I don't care that much if google is storing all my searches, the omnibox is very good, especially after a bit of use. I was used to using this style of browsing with firefox already, just typing the first letters of the website, but Chrome takes it one level above searching the possible websites even if you never accessed that before.
Task Manager: The task manager shows exactly which page or plugin are putting your system down. I believe it's really useful.

Memory Consumption: The way it control the memory access with a process per tab and other optmizations make Chrome the best browser in terms of memory consumption. In firefox I have to restart once in a while my whole browser when it's getting above 500-700 megabytes.

• Cons

I still have some critics, which I believe will soon be dealt with.

Task manager:

The task manager could allow for sorting using its fields, the same way the task manager does.
It could also show the totals directly in the main task manager (you can see that in the "Stats for nerds").

And Chrome has something very interesting, if you click "Stats for nerds" link in the task manager it shows the total memory used by all I tried to put it to test then. I put the same tabs in fresh just new chrome, firefox and internet explorer. Here are the results:

It seems like Chrome is the one that occupies more memory for the same exact tabs opened.

Find Box: The find box seems interesting, counting which occurrence it is at the moment (eg: 1 of 20). It doesn't seem to work properly when what you are looking for is inside a text box.


Integration with google's services: It could have a better integration with google's services. I would like to have all the tools in the Google's Toolbar that I use in firefox, for example the super useful auto-fill feature.

Error in loading some pages: This page gets loaded without its html tabs when some of the sections are chosen (try "International" tab for example).

How it should be (in firefox):



How it is shown in Chrome:



So the only way to get the main sections is returning to the main page.

Links not working: I just tested again and now it seems to work. But this site had the main news links not working (in red and blue).

Plugins: Some plugins are not detected correctly and some just don't work. The following image is while trying to use the Photos Uploader of facebook.

Whell-button scroll:

The scroll goes down but don't go up!!

Conclusion is that it is fast, good, but still in its beginning and lacks a lot of things to make me replace firefox.