Why I love Chrome

Another flaw with Internet Explorer confirms my preferences for all my clients to avoid using it if possible. Doing a little IT still I have found that by removing IE from the picture along with locking a user's account down to basic rights has a dramatic effect on the change in the number of support calls required. Admittedly the latter is the main cause of the change but running IE has been a bad idea for a very long time. I would suggest being comfortable in the big 4, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE then ideally use Chrome with the ability to fall back to the others if a flaw is found in Chrome.

Why Chrome? To me it is simplicity for the user. No admin rights are required so users will always have the latest version, even on a computer where the user has no admin rights. Also, the Flash player is integrated into the browser, this means that the user has the latest version (nearly) of this bug ridden bit of cruft. Finally it also include a PDF reader, this again means the user has the latest/patched version of something to read PDFs with without requiring administrator rights to keep their version of Adobe reader updated (which also downloads and installs extra software unless you are paying attention!).

So whenever someone asks me what browser to use I always say Chrome. Until the other browsers can integrate the main two plugins (flash/adobe reader) that users require, set it up so admin rights aren't required and run as fast as Chrome I have to vote Chrome. But don't forget user access permissions!

Just a note on Windows 8, todays bugbear is that when in the 'Metro interface if I try and scroll to the right and my finger starts to the left of the touchpad I go to the desktop. In a way this is a good discovery, but I was trying to 'immerse' myself in the experience that is Metro but I kept leaving it without meaning to...! Another annoyance... Oh well. Seems to run jolly fast though.