Google Chrome Day 1 Impressions

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It is an extremely fast browser which makes it great for gmail, myspace, and facebook sites.

Its lacks a few things however including  Citrix, Sirius, and Daltek support.  Those being a few things I use pretty regularly.

I would like to see an option to make the main navigation bar icons smaller, because in IE and FF I always shrink the icons to the smallest possible.

It is also vulnerable to the old Safari carpet bomb flaw, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference, to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.



Just my thoughts.

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