Google’s Chrome hits Android

I have tried this on my phone a couple of days ago, keeps on freezing. Will have to wait for it to come out of Beta.

Sent from a galaxy far, far away...
 
Its nothing like the desktop version, its not even as good as teh stock browser, still lacking many features, for me most importantly an exit button like dolphin and opera have allowing you to completely exit the app instead of back-grounding it to waste resources. Not to mention its size, a 16mb apk its huge, and here i thought firefox was big.
 
None of the other stock Android apps (including the stock browser) have an exit button; why would Chrome be any different? Also, Google has always said that people should not use task-killers and has resisted the idea of putting in task-killing functionality (for example, swiping tasks away in ICS simply removes them from the list, it doesn't actually kill the task). The point of Android is that you're supposed to let it manage your memory automatically, and generally I've had good results doing that.

As for Chrome, I tried it out yesterday, and I honestly think it has the best UI of any mobile browser I have ever seen. The tabs-as-a-deck-of-cards metaphor works incredibly well on a smartphone-sized screen, and the integration with the desktop browser is fantastic. That said, I also found it to be buggy and unstable. The fact that I was running it on a custom ROM using hacked GPU drivers might have had something to do with this.

Ultimately, I uninstalled Chrome and rolled back my phone to a Gingerbread ROM. GB isn't as pretty, but on my phone it feels faster, more stable and more mature than any ICS ROM I've tried. However, when I upgrade to a decent ICS phone (Galaxy Nexus!), I look forward to using Chrome as my default browser.
 
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