I'm sure by now you've heard, and perhaps played with, Google's new free, open-source web browser: Google Chromium.
If not, well... I've spent the last 30 minutes messin' around. And as far as the overall browser experience, I must confess to not being terribly impressed. The "new tab" feature that keeps track of your favorite sites is pretty cool. And it is lightning fast, except where the "OmniBox" seems to update a little jerkily.
But the developer tools are a different story. It looks like someone at Google decided to spend a good ol' chunka time making their browser very developer friendly.
To launch the Chrome "Inspector", right-click anywhere on a page and click the Inspect Element menu item. From there, you can browse the DOM, inspect javascript errors, investigate resource problems (broken links, large files), and so much more.
There's also a nifty-orama javascript debugger. See the screenshot below for an example of Chrome Inspector catching one of my javascript bugs.
And then there's the javascript console window, which seems to actually work(!), and comes with a slimmed down and barely there version of Intellisense (but Intellisense no less). I'm very excited about this because it's hard to find a readily available javascript command window that just works. And I've been having issues with FireBug of late.
Oh yeah, I'm going to have loads of fun with this. If you're a web dev, I encourage you to give it a whirl.
