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September 3, 2008

Google Chrome – First Look

Filed under: Software — Laura Moncur @ 5:00 am

You are looking at my first problem with Google Chrome:

Bloglines on Google Chrome

I downloaded Google’s new browser to see if it was worth all the hype and within seconds, I had my first problem. The download was “kind” enough to import the bookmarks from my Internet Explorer browser for me. Unfortunately, I hadn’t used IE since I first found FireFox years ago. The only bookmark on that old list that I still use is Bloglines, but when I tried to go to Bloglines, it asked me to log in.

I haven’t logged into Bloglines for YEARS. The cookies have just transferred over from one version of FireFox to the new one for so long that I don’t even remember which email address or password I used for Bloglines.

So much for making it easy for me…

I’m going to play with Chrome for a little while to see if it is as cool as everyone is thinking it’s going to be, but they don’t have a Mac version and I switched to Mac last year. I really hate going back to my clunky PC just to test things, so I can’t even promise that I’ll write an in-depth review of Google Chrome. Instead, maybe I’ll write a devotional for Firefox.

2 Comments

  1. Go to tools,(wrench Icon) import bookmarks and settings, and then change the “from” field to Mozilla Firefox

    Comment by N — September 6, 2008 @ 3:48 pm

  2. Hi bud. The open source version of Chrome called Chromium is available for both MAC and Linux if you want to try it out. It’s by Codeweavers and they call it “CrossOver Chromium.”

    Comment by chrome mac linux (chi) — September 26, 2008 @ 8:55 am

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