As I’ve mentioned before I’ve started using Google Chrome as my default personal browser while at home.  Sometimes I slip up and go back to the warm comforts of FireFox but Chrome is so damn fast and clean it’s hard to put it down.  

I’ll admit Firefox is much more intuitive and allows me to blog much easier, but hopefully Chrome’s contextual menu will catch up to the curve set by FF.

I was going through some of my RSS feeds tonight when I saw a new post over at the Gmail Blog about some Google toolbar functionality.  Normally I hate toolbars with a passion, but Google toolbar is one I’ve been able to live with in the past and I was curious how it would work with Chrome.  Google Toolbar with Google Chrome?  It must be second only to sex I thought to myself.

Sadly, I was quickly given my comeuppance when I tried to install it and realized that toolbar and Chrome don’t play together at all, let alone nicely.

I’ve often heard that Google’s projects are very segmented which is why Gmail and Reader don’t coexist, even though they’re basically the same platform, but I have to admit I didn’t expect this.

I’m sure much of the functionality of Toolbar will be built into Chrome eventually if it isn’t already so it’s not a huge loss.  Besides, who really likes toolbars anyway?

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