OS X makes life easy when you download things from the App Store, everything is in one place and you don't have to hunt around.
This isn't the case for Chrome and FireFox though and you still have to do the update dance once a month, across all your computers and virtual machines. It's about 15 times in my household.
And what have I discovered? FireFox absolutely kicks Chromes butt. Its quick and oh so slick.
The problem starts with Chrome wanting to launch the Google Updater from within the browser; this rarely works and I end up downloading the Chrome install again. By the time I have done this - Firefox installed itself about 2 minutes ago.
In addition to this it wants to put some stupid notification bar (that I don't want) on the OS X menu bar.
Net result - at home I am slowly but surely migrating my way back to Firefox - I have already done it at work. FireFox feels much much quicker. I also like the way it prompts me for a master password before I auto fill passwords.
So.. is there anything wrong with Chrome itself? Not really. It does a fantastic job of switching users, saving bookmarks etc. Its quick enough (but not as fast as FireFox).
It's the install experience, its the toolbar install (yuk) and the general nagging that gets to me.
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