# Google Chrome offers a smooth browsing experience despite rendering issues and limited plugins

DevFeed: [Google Chrome offers a smooth browsing experience despite rendering issues and limited plugins](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/google-did-something-right-finally-41059.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2008/09/04/Google-did-something-right-.-.-.-.-Finally/>)

Author: Map

Published: 2008-09-05T00:21:56Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Craig Kerstiens](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/craig-kerstiens.md>)

Topics: [Google Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-chrome.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firefox.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>)

Tags: [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firefox.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [google-chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-chrome.md>), [plugins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plugins.md>)

## AI overview

The article gives a positive opinion of Google Chrome, describing it as smooth overall despite rendering problems and other oddities. It compares Chrome favorably with Internet Explorer and Safari, while noting that its lack of plugins is a current limitation and that Firefox can become sluggish with plugins enabled.

## Source excerpt

Forget the benchmarks, forget whether its truly faster or slower, forget whether the market share is 30% for non-IE browsers (though is this only for US or internationally). Google Chrome evolution or revolution, whatever you want to call it, it makes me actually want to stay in the browser. I just want plugins, that function as well as the browser alone does. Yeah theres rendering problems, and some oddities, but the browser as a whole is smooth. I actually feel thus far its the best of IE and safari melded together. The only problem I see right now is the lack of plugins, which my guess is will come VERY SOON. Meanwhile firefox when having the plugins I want enabled can be sluggish, if Chrome plugins are of equivilant quality then I can't see how the browser wouldn't be at LEAST as smooth. Chrome really is a win for Google, whether they can monetize it or not. It helps them to keep people off the desktop and in the browser. I could go on for hours about bad moves they've made, such as picasa, but Chrome was actually a good one.