Google Developers Lack Common Sense

Eric • 29th Oct 2008 • Technology

I’ve been using Google Chrome for a while now… probably 3 weeks. I like it, although I do go back to Firefox when I need to edit cookies, measure things on the screen, watch headers, or do other things that I have Firefox plugins for.

What bothers me about Chrome is that it’s not integrated with other Google products nicely. Two prime examples:

1. I can’t write an HTML email in Gmail because Gmail doesn’t recognize Chrome as a browser that supports their WYSIWYG editor. Didn’t the Gmail people know Chrome was being developed? Don’t you think at least ONE of the Chome developers uses Gmail and realizes this is going on?
2. Bookmarks are not integrated with Google bookmarks. So now I have Google Bookmarks, Chrome Bookmarks, and del.icio.us bookmarks. Right now I’m cleaning up my Chrome bookmarks, which are typically temporary things that I just don’t want to lose as I find them, and either moving them into del.icio.us or Google Bookmarks. This needs to be integrated better (user option).

Common, Google. At first, I was joking about being your Director of Common Sense, but maybe you really need one…