Trust Me, I’m a Nerd or Google Chrome Review

When I first got my computer, i figured that 20 gigs out of my relatively tiny 80 gig drive would be lots for windows XP on its own partition. I was recently proven horribly wrong. I discovered that, interestingly enough, I had 20 gigs of operating system and was able to back up everything I needed on an 8 Gig USB stick. Ridiculous.

Anyways, while I’ve been waiting on setup to reformat the drive and reinstall windows, I’ve been fiddling around with Google Chrome on my dad’s PC.
Good:

 It has a recent tabs thing with is basically amazing. And its beautiful. as much as a browser can be i suppose…
It has all the wonderful things firefox can do like tabs and actually saving passwords!

Not so Good:

It seems to be ridiculously slow. Part of that may be due to the generation gap and my dad choosing the internet speed. However, even IE runs faster on this machine.

Also:

I’ve Gotten  used to all the awesome addons in firefox, particularly the adblock (I get surprised to see ad’s) and the previews (utterly amazing for quickly following links on blogs and such).

the verdict:
Not half bad. Its pretty (which is a selling point for me, theres a disco ball on my desk that makes almost everything progress slower) and really easy to use (although I haven’t found all the usual ‘file’ and ‘edit’ ect menus yet). But it is a little slow and doesn’t block ads(which is understandable, thats how google makes money after all) or have all the extravagance that I’m used to. Its definitely a step up from the evil blue ‘e’.