Google Chrome – Should It Really be at Revision 1.0x ?

After downloading, and using the Chrome browser from Google, I see that it is a project that offers another way of looking at things.

This is nice for those who suffer from ADD and need to move on to something different, but I wonder how the development team decided it was time to release a 1.0 version of this browser.

The flat look, and lack of ability to change many things in the interface, makes this seem to me as though we are back in the days of Firefox 0.7 (which, if you remember was not called Firefox at that time!)

I simply don’t see enough difference to cause me to change from my use of Opera, even allowing for the problem cited here. I doubt that any Firefox users, with their proclivities for fiddling with endless numbers of add-ins, are going to change over in great numbers. That leaves the Internet Explorer and Safari users as possible converts. I can see the Safari users making a change, as it does work a bit like Safari, but IE users are a stubborn lot, either being afraid to use something non-Microsoft, or being so strongly in the fold of the Redmond loyal that they will tough it out until IE8 (9?) delivers what they are looking for.

So, considering the state, and qualities, of the competition, should Google have taken this out of the beta stage?

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(apparently the Chrome browser identifies itself across the web with a unique ID, allowing the tracking of its user. Already there is a fix for this, called Unchrome, available here. There also appears to be another browser that seems to have the Chrome guts, but with a more rugged exterior, also making security a smaller concern. It’s called Iron, and is available there as well)

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“Most people are so lazy, they don’t even exercise good judgement!” – Alfred E. Neuman