{"id":201,"date":"2009-05-03T21:19:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-05-03T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T13:19:40","slug":"google-chrome-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/03\/google-chrome-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome > Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve uninstalled Safari a couple of days back, because I realised that it actually lagged my PC whenever I tabbed to my MSN window or some other programs. \u00a0After that, I&#8217;ve been wanting to try out Google Chrome, as Steph had greatly recommended it in her blog, as well as in her comments to my posts.<\/p>\n<p>So I did. \u00a0For some reason, Chrome did not want to be installed in my PC at Reko&#8217;s place, so I came back home and try it on this PC instead, and it works! \u00a0That&#8217;s a little weird, because my PC over at his place is almost ten times better than this old one&#8230; Oh well anyway, I find Chrome really loads faster than Firefox! \u00a0That&#8217;s quite a feat to me because I thought Firefox was already fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Stephie was right on all counts regarding Chrome. \u00a0It was not buggy (even though I had read in some forums that it was) at all; it loads very fast; it actually imports <em>browsing history<\/em> from my Firefox (which is a plus, because Safari did not have this function), as well as saved passwords (ditto for Safari again). \u00a0The only thing I found similar between Chrome and Safari is the browser appearance. \u00a0It&#8217;s disconcertingly the same, with the Controls and Options at the right end of the address bar. \u00a0Even the icons look eerily the same. \u00a0Chrome also had the same &#8220;Most visited pages&#8221; screen, but I must say Safari had a better look, feel and layout. \u00a0Chrome felt a little&#8230; amateurish. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But then again, Apple is known for their sophisticated design anyway. \u00a0I&#8217;m hardly on that &#8220;Most visited pages&#8221; screen, so I guess it didn&#8217;t really matter. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll try out the Chrome for a while more (just like I did with Safari), before deciding whether to make the switch. \u00a0XD<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Steph for the recommendation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all. I&#8217;ve uninstalled Safari a couple of days back, because I realised that it actually lagged my PC whenever I tabbed to my MSN window or some other programs. \u00a0After that, I&#8217;ve been wanting to try out Google Chrome, as Steph had greatly recommended it in her blog, as well as<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/03\/google-chrome-safari\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BeXn-3f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}