Google Chrome

    We have recently switched our web browser from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome. My fiancé was the one who first turned me on to Google Chrome. He works at a Grow Marketing in Joplin and had just gotten a new computer in his office and was having some issues with it so they called the IT guy. Once the problem was fixed the IT guy was on his computer testing it out and saw that he used Internet Explorer for his web browser. The IT guy suggested that he try out Google Chrome and downloaded it on to his computer for him. The more he used it the more familiar he became with it and the more he liked it. He liked it so much in fact that he came home and downloaded it on his laptop. After he downloaded it he kept telling me how great it was and that I ought to try it out. Being a creature of habit and partial to Mozilla Firefox I didn't try it out until I absolutely had to. One night while trying to finish up some homework an error message kept popping up and closing out my Firefox browser window, being that I was on a time constraint I had to give in and try out Google Chrome.

    I must say I am now quite partial to Google Chrome. It is so much faster that Firefox and definitely way faster than Internet Explorer. The placement of all the buttons such as "print", "copy", "paste", etc are a little tricky to find, but once you familiarize yourself with the browser it is very easy to use. The one issue I have with Google Chrome and it is a fairly big issue, considering just about the only time I'm on the internet is for class, is it's compatibility with Blackboard, or lack thereof. So far I have ran into two issues on Blackboard, the first being that it won't allow me to send excel files through "Digital Dropbox". This is a big problem for me because I have a class where we turn in 3-4 excel files through "Digital Dropbox" a week. The second issue I ran into with Google Chrome and Blackboard is that it when you are threading in "Discussion Board" it does not show all the buttons. For example I needed to embed an object into a Discussion Board thread last week, and was unable to using Google Chrome because the button was not there. I'm sure there are solutions out there for these issues that I just do not know about. But when I had to switch over to Internet Explorer and send the excel files and embed the object in "Discussion Board" it made me appreciate the speed of Google Chrome that much more.

    Hopefully I can figure out a way around these issues with Blackboard so that I don't have to use Internet Explorer or Firefox. If you haven't tried out Google Chrome I suggest you give it a try!