Google Chrome; Hello Advertising
September 04, 2008

So, I seriously gave Google Chrome a try last night while browsing the intarwebs and concluded that there's one serious barrier to adoption of Chrome by FireFox users: annoying advertising. FireFox itself is superb at blocking popups and when combined with the Adblock extension and disabling of Flash, annoying advertising blocking reaches almost 100%. While browsing with Chrome last night I was incredibly annoyed by having to step backwards in time to a day when you actually had to *view* annoying advertising. I keep saying annoying advertising, because I don't mean things like Google text ads or Yahoo Content Match. I mean, jumping dancing poodles dancing across your browser window to lower mortgage rates.

Chrome's interesting, and it certainly blends into Vista nicely - but until there's ad blocking I think its going to be incredibly difficult to get FireFox users to seriously consider it. Internet Explorer users are a different story since IE doesn't really know too much about ad blocking and still displays epileptic fit inducing banner ads.