It’s kind of strange that a blog in the ‘Computers and The Internet’ niche is making its first mention on Google Chrome, since I failed to write a post atleast an hour after it was officially announced, Ii thought it would be a better idea to talk about Chrome once the whole buzz about ‘Google has just released a browser’ in the blogosphere and the Internet has settled a bit.
I doubt you wouldn’t be aware of Google Chrome, if you use any of Google’s services or visit websites that use Google Adsense (which collectively would cover almost all Internet users), you would have heard of Google Chrome. Google Chrome or Chrome for short is a web browser Google recently launched. The launch was kind of ‘sloppy’, with a ‘leaked’ issue of a comic that Google was supposed to introduce Chrome and its features in.
The browser’s main highlight is its speed. Apart from that, its pretty much minimal in terms of features. It’s interface consists of the standard browser style, navigation buttons and other browser elements positioned similar to any other browser. By default it also offers a start page with most visited website and thumbnails for those websites similar to the Speed Dial Firefox Addon.
Google was initially launched as a beta version and came out of beta recently. Almost, immediately Chrome has grabbed a piece of the browser share pie, mainly from Firefox (this makes sense as Firefox users would be more likely to try a new browser than IE users who prefer to stick with the ‘default’). Almost all Google’s income is off contextual advertising and with the current economic crisis i’d say it’s a smart move for Google to release their own browser as to reduce revenue shared with Firefox currently.
Also another highlight of Chrome is its security, each separate tab is treated as a separate process in case of any malware or security threat on the browser, which would only cause the infected tab to be shutdown while the rest of the browser functions normally.
Currently, Chrome does not support extensions, however future plans for Chrome include an extension API. The browser works on all versions of windows, future builds are being developed for Mac and Linux as well.
Based on my experience, i’d say Chrome is a notch faster than Firefox but considering i’ll have to be crippled off all the addons I use with Firefox to have my surfing time only a little bit more productive, i’d rather stick with Firefox. (until maybe that API is released and all the extensions i need are developed for Chrome as well)
Read more about Google Chrome on the Official Google Blog.
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I’ve never used chrome, but I may try it because firefox isn’t working with gmail very nicely
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Thank you for the information regarding Google Chrome. It’s interesting to see the response from the tech community regarding this brand new browser. I’m definitely going to have to play with it more.
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Well I have used Google Chrome but I was unable to appreciate it when compared to firefox but yeah it looks attractive in minimal styling.
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i have used chrome but agreed wid the above comment that when compare to firefox its not good enough to use.
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I do not like the fact google keeps track of every thing you do with chrome online. Firefox works fine so why switch until google makes something far better than it.
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I guess I’m old fashioned, but I’m still using Vista until Microsoft introduces something better.
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