Chrome is new open source browser developed by Google, outed today (ops…yesterday, midnight is past), and it’s really a revolution. You could imagine a super sofisticated browser, and insted Google suprises all as always.
It has a really simple and clear interface, for every user.
It’s really rapid with javascript, thanks to its js virtual machine. Yes, it isn’t a Java virtual machine but a Javascript virtual machine. It improves a lot js code execution, and the result is that you get a page in milliseconds.
Only a bar, Omnibox, you’ll never lose yourself with too many bars. It’s similar to Firefox 3 awesome bar, but it includes also search bar.
One process for every tab, a problem on a tab doesn’t affect all opened browser tabs and garbage collection is better managed.
No need to set full screen mode: tabs are displayed at top to save space, and there aren’t too many toolbars or status bars.
Homepage contains 9 thumbnails of most visited sites, most recently bookmarked pages and history search.
And finally a pearl…options are spitted in three tabs: Basics, Minor Tweaks, Under the Hood (in Italian: Impostazioni di base, Piccoli ritocchi, Roba da smanettoni)…really funny 
I evaluate this as a killer application that will have a great part of market. Now is only a beta test but I see a pink future for this browser; Google always introduces great innovations and applications but I think this will be the better program.
You can read a long but exaustive comics review, watch tutorial videos or read other reviews: Mozilla Links - comparison with Firefox; Mozilla Links - Browser Wars II
What do you think about?
I’m a developer, so the most are web development extensions, but I didn’t forget others…
These are my favourite add-ons for Firefox 3:
- Colourful Tabs: it colors your tabs, your browser just looks nicer
- ColorZilla: advanded colorpicker
- Delicious Bookmarks: easy and rapid way to embed your bookmarks with Firefox and sharing them
- Download Statusbar: shows your downloads in a comfortable toolbar
- Firebug: The developer extension, simply complete of all tools ad essential
- Gmail Notifier: be immediately notified on mail received on your GMail box
- GoogleToolbar: I use it for the very useful translator
- GooglePreview: shows thumbnails preview for every page found in Google searches
- Html Validator: w3c html code validation check
- Hyperwords: selecting a word or a phrase it adds a lot of operation with: search, translate, post to blog…
- IE Tab: test your site with Internet Explorer into Firefox
- JSView: lists all Javascript and Css files of the page and open them with your favourite editor
- McAfee SiteAdvisor: a security tool which tell you if a site is trustable
- MeasureIt: extensions useful to measure what you want in the page
- PdfDownload: prompt you every time what you want to do with a .pdf file
- StumbleUpon: discovery new sites based on your interests and share it with friends
- Yahoo! Mail Notifier: be immediately notified on mail received on your Yahoo! Mail box
And what are yours?
The first reason to download Firefox 3 is that Firefox is simply the best browser. The second is to seek a Guinness World Record, the most downloaded file in only 24 hours.
Subscribe to Spread Firefox to be warned on the release date to download it a help us to reach the goal.
I tried Firefox RC1 and it’s so, so powerful. The most considerable thing is the speed with javascript, up to three times faster!
Read this interesting review of Gran Paradiso, the next release for Firefox, the third.
Ext JS (Ext) is a javascript-based framework for developing Rich Internet Applications, and it’s simply wonderful.
Other Javascript frameworks like JQuery, Prototype and many others are powerful and let you make web pages cooler and more interactive, but their limits are evident. Yes, your web pages will be shorter than plain javascript files but if you wanna develop web applications or someother more complex, you need other, you need Ext.
Ext has many built-in components, which enables you with only a little lines of javascript to create an evoluted graphical user interface, with associated events. You can build forms with embedded form validation, data grid with dynamic options like editing or sorting, or you can simulate a desktop environment with windows in a web page. And more: feed readers, tabbed windows, trees, dynamic loaded combos, and all you can need. It’s also skinnable and customizable. It’s cross-browser compatible, and you don’t need to worry about browser incompatibilities.
And the magic of this tool is that you can forget all javascript functions, you’ll need to know only javascript and json syntax, all the rest is Ext and only Ext.
It’s used by many important and famous customers and that’s a sign of reliability and powerfulness of this framework. You find the customers list in home page. There’ s a complete and well explained documentation, and there are also nice examples to begin learning, some tutorials and a forum to get support.
A comparison between some frameworks
Read a related discussion about ajax frameworks (Italian)
Another review (Italian)
I’m an ExtJS developer, so contact me to get consultancy.
Premesso che ritengo Internet Explorer il peggior browser esistente sulla terra, spiego come poter usare versioni diverse di Internet Explorer sullo stesso pc.
Putroppo ci tocca usarlo per testare le nostre pagine/applicazioni web, ed è meglio usarlo nelle sue due ultime versioni (Ie6 e Ie7). Ora se si dispone con un pc dotato di Ie6 e si aggiorna il browser, si perderà la versione 6 per avere solamente la 7. Chi invece ha già la 7 non può fare certo downgrade.
Ma ecco la soluzione: con Multiple Ie possiamo far convivere tutte quante le versioni di Internet Explorer, a partire dalla 3, fino alla 6 (la 7 dovrà già essere installata sul proprio computer grazie a Windows). Consiglio di installare solamente la 6, ed al massimo la 5.5, in quanto le altre versioni sono più che obsolete.
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