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Google’s Chrome browser hasn’t been around long, but it is certainly becoming popular. Out of curiosity I decided to check the stats on browsers used to view this site for the entire year of 2009: Browser Firefox Internet Explorer Chrome Safari Opera Interesting, eh? Chrome is 3rd with almost 8% for the year. Wondering about growth, next I thought I’d compare by 2009 Well, I thought Maxthon’s WebKit alpha would be the bee’s knees. Alas, no love there for Windows 2000 either. And so I asked myself, “Self, have we ever actually tried Windows XP on this ancient ThinkPad?” Ya know? I don’t think I ever have… a quick look at the XP minimum requirements got me thinking it Here’s a little story that I find amusing. Perhaps you will as well. Last month I got Google Chrome working on my trusty old ThinkPad (Pentium 2) running Windows 2000. I was very pleased — this turned out to be a wonderful way to keep the old laptop useful and responsive. However, over time Chrome started getting  September 29th, 2009 |  Tags: alpha, browsers, Google-Chrome, maxthon, thinkpad, windows-2000 |  6 comments More than once I’ve noted that the main issue with using older hardware is trying to use modern browsers. And yeah, that usually comes up when I’m writing about my ThinkPad 600E with its Pentium 2. Earlier this week I wrote about how well Puppy Linux ran on it. Then I put Windows 2000 Pro on Have you read about (or tried) the Opera Unite beta yet? Announced in the middle of June, the Opera folks say it will “reinvent the web.” I’ve read the Opera articles and some reviews (for instance) but so far haven’t had the urge to try it out. Frankly, I don’t think Unite is going to reinvent |
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