YMail is sittin’ (pretty) on Chrome … so far

No, I’m not talking about a fresh set of rims for your lowriding hooptie.  News around the water cooler (as well as on our very own front page), is that our friends from just up the road have rolled out a new browser option called Chrome.  Not sure I know what went into the name choice, but at this point I’m going to assume that they are just huge Masta Ace fans and particularly loved his works from the mid 90′s.  I always felt that Ace peaked with “Born to Roll”, but that may not translate as well into a web product.

Anyway, what this means to YMail users is there is another browser being thrown into the compatibility pool.  The good news is that the Chrome development team has leveraged the open source project known as Webkit, which is also the underlying framework that Apple used for the Safari browser.  Since we have built the All-New Mail to work well with Safari (and it’s underlying Webkit framework) this first release of Chrome so far seems to provide a fairly consistent experience for Windows users (currently not available for Mac or Linux).

That being said, we still have a lot of testing to do before we can guarantee that the user experience will be consistent and reliable.  In the meantime users can always use one of the three, fully supported, browser options for both versions of YMail: Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari.