Linux Tips & Tricks

When Google came up with its own browser, I heard a lot of unhappy moaning from some of my colleagues: “Common, another damn browser!” There were also certain worries heard from our fellow web developers who were afraid of more compatibility issues during web design process. I really did not mind Chrome but I was concerned about the impact of New Incognito Window on web analytics and search engine optimization results of my web analytics company. Well, the jury is still out there in regards of SEO but, overall, I think, I know one of the reasons why Google needed its own browser.

I can see that occasionally there are some issues with running Google applications in Microsoft Explorer and even Mozilla Firefox.  Guys, that I know, loaded so many add-ons that the browsers take longer time to load and sometimes timeout unexpectedly. Perhaps, that is why Chrome is so straightforward and unpretentious. It is lightning fast and can even turn separately each tab where the web page loading process crushed. You don’t have to shut down all the tabs and restart your browser each time.

There are some managers that tend to open up to 20 tabs and keep both browsers open without a worry on their minds. I wholeheartedly recommend Google Chrome installation for them, so they don’t have to bother poor overworked tech support guys when their whole OS suddenly hangs.

Anyways, Chrome is still beta and does not have a Linux version, so let’s wait and see how Google guys improve this project. As far as I remember, Gmail beta was converted into standard version pretty well. I wish the same luck for this new browser too.

I think many pros would agree that Putty is still the best free ssh client to use on Windows machines. It has  always been loyal to me and, practically, never let me down for the last ten years or so, since I’ve been working for my web analytics company. Putty comes in various versions: you can download just Putty for all your telnet and ssh needs, or you can also add to it PuttyTel, PSFTP and other clients. Putty.exe is just one file, after download you can move it right on your desktop and open directly from there.

I noticed not so long ago, though, that there were no recent updates for Putty. The last client 6.0 beta was produced for download on April 29, 2007. I really don’t know what happened, maybe developer just got tired of us or moved to some other venues. But the client is still working great. In fact, I just installed it on another new Windows XP box  and use it without any issues. Here is the link, so you can download your Putty client.