When talking about web browsers it’s fair to mention Google’s product called Chrome. It has open source version called Chromium that is available also for N900.

I’ve never had more in common with Chrome than watching my collegues using it. Mobile version looks very similar, with tabs and toolbar on top. What’s not so nice it looks almost exactly the same, without any modifications for mobile device or touchscreen to improve usability. Same thing goes context menus and option screens, I find it hard to use them without stylus. Browsing is quite similar to other browsers, but gives another reason not to like UI because of the scrollbars working the same way as on desktop computers. It would be really nice if someone work a bit more on UI modifications for touchscreen devices.

Pages generation looks pretty good and fast, nevertheless I’ve encountered error screen numerous times, also while I was trying to test the browser using Browser Benchmark. The most funny thing is that Google browser has problems with Google main page, maybe because today’s PacMan’s 30th birthday, so Google has it’s new and fancy holiday look.

Since Chromium appeared not to be comfortable or stable enough I wasn’t playing with it for long. For today I find it still incomplete and not so well tested, Chromium may become as good as it’s desktop version if  some more work was put in it.

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