Google continues to ignore its Chrome browser
I like Google’s Chrome browser, maybe more than Google does. I use Chrome on my Windows computer and am impatiently waiting for a version for the Mac. It’s a frustrating wait because Chrome was developed using WebKit, the system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari.
While ads for Google Chrome have been spotted on YouTube and Linked In, I think the excitement for Chrome as dimished. Could part of that be because Google itself is doing such a poor job of supporting its own product? The Internets are all abuzz about the new GMail Themes and Colors. Seriously? Anyway, being the lemming that I am, I checked them out myseft and found that they don’t display properly in Chrome.
Here is how Firefox and Chrome display the same theme in Gmail.
Yes, I know that Chrome is still in beta, but what Google product isn’t? See right there in the image under the letters “i l” in GMail, it says beta. After four years, GMail is still in beta which either means a) Google doesn’t understand the beta testing cycle, or b) Google doesn’t care.
I’ll continue to use Chrome on the limited systems it’s available and I’ll continue to shake my head in disbelief when I come across this annoyances.
As for the GMail themes and colors, meh.
- Al
