When was the last time these geeks let your soul rest in peace and let things be as they were. Never, because that's why they are "the geeks", you know.
I am talking about a hoard of web-browsers that seems to have crept up from nowhere. I am not a net junkie nor am i a software guy who keeps up with the latest viruses and trojans on the net. I am someone who uses a system (a computer) for work, to make presentations, databases, reports and other related things, if you get the hint. So what if i have computers degree with me, naah, that does not make me a geek!
Anyway, as far as i can remember, some of the latest web-browsers that have come up in last year or so are - Internet Explorer 8, Mozila Firefox 3, Apple Safari, and then... the much awaited - Google's Chrome.
I can't take somethings away from Chrome (read Google) because somethings are really good about it. Like the tabs appearance, separate process trees for different tabs (so that if one crashes, your browser does not die), it of course does work better with Google wares (Gmail, Gtalk, Orkut, etc), its faster (loads web-pages faster - as they claim - why didn't i feel so?). Oh yes1 i forgot to mention the Java applications handling prowess of Chrome.
But somethings (a lot of things, i guess) are missing, let me try and make a list -
- Plugins - Download, book marks, PDF covertors, Ad blockers, Others
- Skins
- Not compatible with systems which have Symantec as their Anti-virus programs
- It does not work with Windows version lower than XP and Vista (though there are codes available now)
- Etc
For me it somehow still does not beat Mozila Firefox 3, I am still convinced someday Chrome shall get better of Firefox but untill then i will wait and Hail Mozila FireFox!
- Capricious - Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- Suffuses - Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
- Missives - A written message addressed to a person or organization
- Lamented - Mourned or grieved for
- Sated - Fill to satisfaction
- Jettisoned - Throw away, of something encumbering
- Oppressive - Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
- Claustrophobic - Uncomfortably closed or hemmed in
- Alcoves - A small recess opening off a larger room
- Vernacs - provincial; culturally backwards, unfashionable, or unrefined
- Guttural - Like the sounds of frogs and crows
- Cavort - Play boisterously
- Slew - a large number or amount or extent
- Scathing - Marked by harshly abusive criticism
- Aglow - Softly bright or radiant
- Roiled - Aroused to impatience or anger
- Chute - Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
- Vehemence - The property of being wild or turbulent
- Rancor - A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- Sagacity - The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- Lechery - Unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
- Wizened - Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
- Enmeshed - Caught as if in a mesh
- Wiles - The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Pivot - Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- Slovenly - Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
- Waltzed - An assured victory (especially in an election)
- Tufts - A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- Convulsed - Be overcome with laughter/ Shake uncontrollably
