Categories: technophobia, everyday-disasters
Tags: browser, Google Chrome, Mac
Date: 07 January 2010 17:44:48
My son sweetly sent me a beautiful gift-wrapped link to Google Chrome, which he said was the best internet browser ever. I downloaded and installed it, and set it as my default browser. It kindly imported all my bookmarks, including all the links to Firefox sites which I no longer wanted. I then discovered it is almost impossible to delete bookmarks in Google Chrome for Mac. But I persevered and found a way to do it.
Then I gave up on it for the moment and went to log in to the Wibsite. Whaddya know, it had forgotten my saved password. I then had to hunt around Chrome's online help, which is a nightmare, for advice on this. It turns out that in Chrome for a Mac, there is currently no way of transferring saved passwords, at least from Firefox. The powers that be are working on it.
Reader, I abandoned Chrome and went right back to Firefox as my default browser. Maybe I'll try Chrome in a few months when they have caught up with Mac users. It's all part of the evil conspiracy against Mac users....