And today is marking the end of Chrome for me

by JasonRShaver 17. February 2009 16:54

Today I have decided that I am feedup with Chrome.  Really, I have made it my default browser since it came out, yet when I look down at the number of open browsers, I see that 6 are Chrome and 5 are IE7.  

Why do I have IE7 open at all you might ask?   Well it turns out that the whole "Starting..." thing where Chrome will start to download something but forget what it is doing or whatever, it is killing me.  I then have to open up IE7, cut and paste the link in, and then it happily starts downloading right away.

Also the lack of FTP support annoys me as some of the file I need to download are links for FTP sites.

Finally, the lack of accessibility support is kind of a game-over for me as I do alot of personal coding that uses MSAA to which Google Chrome is just a black-box. 

Sad that with all of its speed and stability improvements, it fails because it can't do the core Internet activity of downloading a file.

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I am a software developer working for Microsoft in Redmond, WA.  In addition, my wife and I own TTXOnline, what is likely the 3rd largest table tennis store in the US.

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