It takes ages to load and crashes constantly. Using Blogger has been a nightmare for me especially loading photographs.
I had avoided installing Internet Explorer 8 as I had read that people have had lots of problems with it and as my laptop is filling up rapidly I didn't want to use up lots of space with a new download.
I've used other browsers such as Opera, FireFox and Mozilla but didn't like any of them, they were no faster and my computer didn't seem to like them either.
I saw ads for Google Chrome but as I mentioned my laptop is filling up, so I avoided it. However today I have had so many problems with Internet Explorer I thought, life's too short to put up with this dross so I had a look at Google Chrome.
It doesn't take up much space so I decided to go for it. I downloaded it and I have to say that it was really quick.
It was strange at first as you get so used to using one browser but now I absolutely love it. It's so much faster than IE I can't believe it. My home page is the BBC website which takes between 15 and 20 seconds to load in IE. It takes 5 in Chrome!
I then tested loading CBeebies from the BBC site, (grand daughter's favourite). It takes absolutely ages in IE. You have to sit and watch the dreaded green bar filling up at the bottom of the screen. Today it took 25 seconds, some days I have to walk away while my grand daughter sits moaning about it! In Chrome it took less than 5 seconds and I tried it a few times! Wonderful.
I then tested loading CBeebies from the BBC site, (grand daughter's favourite). It takes absolutely ages in IE. You have to sit and watch the dreaded green bar filling up at the bottom of the screen. Today it took 25 seconds, some days I have to walk away while my grand daughter sits moaning about it! In Chrome it took less than 5 seconds and I tried it a few times! Wonderful.
I used to have to wait for ages for some people's blogs to load. If you have lots of photos on your homepage then IE used to freeze. So I had to stop looking at some people's blogs. I thought it may have had something to do with my laptop but now I'm not so sure. It loads all the people's blogs I had problems with. It still takes a little while but it's not freezing now and I can see what it's loading, I don't just have the dreaded egg timer. It tells you what it's waiting for in a small bar on the bottom left of the screen. Flickr and play lists seem to cause the problems but nowhere near as long to wait as IE.
Creating posts in Blogger is faster too although loading the large photos still seems to take a while, I assume that's down to Blogger, the small ones loaded quickly.
Looks like the photographs have stopped enlarging again. I just give up!
Using the address search bar is really good compared to IE where it seems to revert to Yahoo or Dell's searches if I just type in words. Chrome comes up with several options to search including the standard Google, this is where it gets clever and suggests websites in your favourites and in your recent history. Brilliant!
The screen seems so much cleaner now. The tabs are similar to IE but I like it when you click on a new tab, you see thumbnails of your most used sites so you can just click on the picture. There's also a list of the recently closed urls and another with recent bookmarks. An absolute doddle to use.
Looks like the photographs have stopped enlarging again. I just give up!
I thought the websites looked small when I was viewing them, I hate small print and have my laptop set to a larger print. However it's so easy to enlarge the page. Just press Control and + and that increases it, press it again to enlarge more. Wonderful for the websites I hate which have miniscule print, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs please take note!
Also great creating my posts now. I know you could enlarge it with IE but I just never got used to it. The option was in the bit that disappeared off the end of the toolbar, I couldn't see a shortcut and I kept forgetting where it was. This shortcut is so much easier than going to the menus.
Another feature I like is the ability to report a broken link or bug direct from the page control menu back to Google. I think you choose this option when you install.
As far as I can see from just the short time I've spent using it today, Chrome has all the features I need from IE and a few more. Best of all it hasn't crashed which IE does all the time.
Also great creating my posts now. I know you could enlarge it with IE but I just never got used to it. The option was in the bit that disappeared off the end of the toolbar, I couldn't see a shortcut and I kept forgetting where it was. This shortcut is so much easier than going to the menus.
Another feature I like is the ability to report a broken link or bug direct from the page control menu back to Google. I think you choose this option when you install.
As far as I can see from just the short time I've spent using it today, Chrome has all the features I need from IE and a few more. Best of all it hasn't crashed which IE does all the time.
From what I've read about it Google Chrome is a very secure browser, much more so than IE. Another real plus for it.
I've also read that Google is developing an operating system which will get you online in seconds. It will be free and will have a suite of software like Microsoft Office built in, also free. You would just buy a computer with Google Chrome and that's it. No having to buy that overpriced Microsoft stuff. They would have to develop a customer service and helpline facility which currently Google doesn't have. So no easy job! But if they do, maybe Microsoft is in for a hard time.
As I've said before, me no technical! So if anyone has any comments about it I'd be pleased to hear them from you.
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