Widget Watch: Goggle Browser

This isn't just some little Google search widget that takes you to your default browser for the results - the Goggle Browser (note: Goggle, not Google) is the Google Dashboard widget to end all Google Dashboard widgets. Along its left side is a list of more Google services than I knew existed, and they all load right inside the widget, using what I assume is Apple's WebKit (the open source web rendering engine that powers the likes of Safari, OmniWeb and others).

While it's an impressive setup, the widget isn't without its shortcomings. First, it's 1000 x 750 pixels, and I can't find any way of changing its size. This means that on my 13-inch MacBook, the Google Browser widget gobbles up nearly my entire Dashboard. My other big beef is the lack of visual feedback - the sidebar buttons don't act 'pressed' when I click them, and when pages/services are loading, there isn't even so much as a spinning circle to let me know I should be patient. Still, this is an impressive 1.0 offering that should keep even the most obsessed of Google's fans who just gotta have everything at the press of F12 satisfied.
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