There are few reasons to adopt a new piece of software, unless it has real productivity gains. I’ll admit, I like cool tools like the next person, but if the tool doesn’t help me get more done, it won’t last. A couple years ago when Google first entered the browser market by releasing Chrome, everyone was impressed with it’s speed, but the discussion didn’t go much beyond that. Today, several versions later, and a maturing extensions leaves me using it more than any other browser. Let me share 3 reasons why.
If your primary job has you working online most of the day, it is all about proper focus balanced with productivity. Using Chrome might move things along for you a bit too. Here are reasons I’m using it more than Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.
1-Speed and Reliability
Speed was the most impressive part of Chrome when it released, I found the application loaded in about half the time of Internet Explorer or Firefox. The problem was the lack of extensions/plugins that I came to rely on with Firefox. Thinks have changed since then (below).
Less Freezing and Crashing. More than that, running Chrome on Windows I find less crashes and freezes. I think there was one time Chrome froze for me, but it was only a single tab, it closed, leaving the other tabs in application working as normal.
2-Support for My Favorite Extensions
Early on, there wasn’t much I could do with Chrome to make it easy to login to the online services I use, check SEO related data, read and store shared bookmark resources. Over the last few months, with
Chrome Extensions the most popular plugins I use with Firefox (like ones
here and
here) are now available with Chrome.
SeoQuake – Great for understanding at a glance the results on search engine result pages (SERPs), or for a particular website (reviewed
here).
Roboform – The best $30 I ever invested for a software productivity tool. It memorizes your logins for any site you wish, so that you don’t have to keep passwords on pieces of paper, and it can sync between multiple computers. Their online version is required (currently in beta), to work with their Chrome extension.
Delicious – Allowing users to centralize bookmarks they collect across the web and share them publicly or keep them private. Checkout our public ones
here.
Cooliris – Makes it easy to browse and search for images and videos on social networks and more. I created a video shortly after discovering this a couple years ago, it’s
here on Facebook.
3-Bookmarks Everywhere
I happen to have multiple computers, laptops, desktops, so having flexibility to get to needed information quickly is important. There is a set of bookmarks that are used often displayed right under the address bar. Having a Google account, Chrome is set to to synchronize these bookmarks, allowing me to have them on any computer I use when logged into my Google account with the Chrome browser.
Get started today with Chrome, you just might find you’ll use it more than other browsers too.
Chrome download page.
These are a few of my reasons. Does Chrome work for you? Why or why not? What extensions do you use to get more done? Chime in below.
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Hi, my name is Travis Campbell, I operate this site. One way I can extend what I've learned marketing online over the years is by writing about it here... and helping you along the way.
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