Chrome’s benefits for a developer

In the last few days I had a closer look on chrome and how it would benefit our development work, I like to use Firefox since it offers so many development tool plug-ins, but I still have to make sure my applications perform properly in IE. From a developer viewpoint, Chrome provides a few tools for working with web pages. The list includes the following:

Gears, a standard component, provides a platform for creating web applications that can run offline, you can install it from here

Web Inspector, allows you to take a closer look at any element on the currently open page. It is available by right-clicking on an element. It allows you to browse page elements and view object properties and style. This is a feature from the WebKit base.

 

JavaScript console, allows you to enter command-line JavaScript code that can access page elements. It opens within the Web Inspector window — located in the bottom portion.

JavaScript debugger, a command line JavaScript debugger. here is an online tutorial.

 

Task Manager, allows you to view the current processes running within Chrome. It shows the system resources by a process. This includes memory, network, and CPU usage. A button is provided to end a process along with link to a report that breaks down memory usage for individual processes.

Of course, this doesn’t beat Firefox’s development tool plug-ins, so I’ll stick to Firefox while keeping an eye on Chrome.