Experimentation

...of the not that compelling kind. I had a go with Google's new browser, Chrome, today. It's very nice, very fast-loading and I like what you can do with tabs and the address/search bar. The separate memory space for each tab is nice too. However, I want more configurability - I like to set my browser fonts to a kind and size that I can read easily, and the options in Chrome are worse than IE's (since from what I can tell, you can only do "normal" "bigger" "smaller" rather than setting a default font size, let alone a font face or a minimum font size).

I also realised just how much I don't want to browse without an ad-blocker ever again. I use IE7Pro at work, and Adblock Plus in Firefox. I actually don't mind Google ads - so if they built an ad-blocker that didn't restrict their own by default, it wouldn't bother me - but all winking blinking colour monstrosties that take up half of a page drive me up the wall.

So, I think I'll wait for the next Firefox upgrade, since it apparently has a fantastic javascript engine coming up as well. Of course, I can't use Firefox at work - it's blocked due to "security concerns" (the irony, it burns us).