The beta version of Google Chrome became available this morning, and it’s definitely worth trying out. It’s not quite good enough to pull me entirely from Firefox yet, but it definitely has enormous potential. For now I’ll be using it for casual browsing whilst staying with Firefox for work.

Our new online shopping site currently in development seems to work flawlessy… that was expected, considering Chrome is based on WebKit, but given that we’re getting very close to launch (honest!) I’m pleased to say that IE6 remains the only browser that I hate.

Simon pointed out that Chrome gives very little weight to the web page’s title. Because Chrome has a minimalistic look about it, the classic “File / Edit / View” bar and application title are nowhere to be seen. Furthermore, the tabs cut off page titles after around 20 characters, so page titles like “Gameplanet Store NZ - Buy DVDs, DVD movies, PS2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Wii, and PC games online.” are suddenly extremely useless for all purposes other than search engines. Interesting decision.