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title: 'Buzzing about Chrome?'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/buzzing-about-chrome'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/buzzing-about-chrome.md'
date: '2010-02-11'
description: 'Slowly but surely, my tech life gets more “Googley”. I spend my days coding using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) using the Google Eclipse Plugin. I will be going to the Google I/O 2010 conference, including Google’s Boot Camp. Gmail is my main source of contact for email and instant messaging (my gmail e…'
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    - Journal
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    - google
    - gwt
    - software
---

# Buzzing about Chrome?

## [Buzzing about Chrome?](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/buzzing-about-chrome)

    11th Feb 2010   [eclipse](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:eclipse#body-wrapper) [google](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:google#body-wrapper) [gwt](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:gwt#body-wrapper) [software](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:software#body-wrapper)  

Slowly but surely, my tech life gets more “Googley”.

I spend my days coding using [GWT (Google Web Toolkit) ](https://code.google.com/webtoolkit/)using the [Google Eclipse Plugin](https://web.archive.org/web/20120206052832/https://code.google.com/eclipse/). I will be going to the [Google I/O 2010](https://web.archive.org/web/20101003174625/https://code.google.com/events/io/2010/) conference, including Google’s [Boot Camp](https://web.archive.org/web/20100206011944/https://code.google.com:80/events/io/2010/bootcamp.html). [Gmail](https://mail.google.com) is my main source of contact for email and instant messaging (my gmail email address is my username on every IM network that I use)…

And now, with [Google Buzz](https://web.archive.org/web/20111121230012/https://www.google.com/buzz), the big G woos me away from [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/stevenjaycohen) by integrating social networking with the nerve center of my online communication.

But wait, there’s more!

I am writing this post using [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome) – Google’s web browser. During its development, I have installed (and subsequently uninstalled) Chrome many times. This is the first time I have found Chrome to be more than a curiosity. Even before the rise of Apple’s Safari, I have been a fan of the [WebKit](https://webkit.org/) rendering engine (back then, it was called [KHTML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML)). So, when Apple built Safari off the [Konqueror](https://www.konqueror.org/) core, it quickly became my default browser — until yesterday.

Google’s build of WebKit seems more responsive than Apple’s and Google let’s me add extensions (like ad-blocking) to my browser without hacks or other unsupported coding. In short, I am finding Chrome to be the best of Safari (smooth, standards-compliant rendering) plus the best of Firefox (supported plugin architecture).

Could I get any more “Googley”? Only if my [next phone](https://web.archive.org/web/20120128124826/https://www.google.com/phone/) runs [Android OS](https://www.android.com/).

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