Its been close to a week since Google announced its first browser called Chrome. One of the prime goals of the development team of Google chrome was to minimize or remove the chrome from the browser and this is what the development team as actually done.
The browser is simple and loads pretty quickly, the setup file (which I got after a long wait) is of 475 KB and it installs just like Ubuntu a quicky OS which I have loved always. The browser design is simple viz a viz Google, it looks transparent to the desktop and its thin background makes it look light. It has no menu bar like the traditional browsers.
Some of the key features of Chrome
1. There is no homepage as such in Chrome. However the homepage is where 8 recently visited sites are shown as site snippets .
2. It has integrated google search in the address bar, so you start typing "Y" in the address bar and it start suggesting you the websites
3. It also has the google calculator integrated in the address bar, so want to make any calculations,type it in the address bar.
4. In chrome every tab acts as a process and all the plugins act as process and there is a inbuilt exclusive task manager where you can have a look at the different process(tabs viz a viz website) and the memory they are occupying at any given time
5. Chrome as the same feature like the IGoogle where you can move the gadgets around the IGoogle, similarly just move a tab out of the browser and it opens as a new window and when u pull this window back into the main window it becomes a tab again.
6. In chrome the default search in the address bar is Google search, you can also choose, Live, Yahoo search , AOL , Ask by right clicking on the address bar and choosing the edit search engine
7. Its open source, so the code is given to you for you to tweak
8. Downloading option is good, it directly starts the downloading and the file stays at the bottom of the browser and once the download is complete you can drag and drop it in any place you want.
9. You want security, its google so it has it , its called inconginitive window ( more like the inPrivate in IE 8) where you browse anything , it leaves no trace of browsing.
10. For developers or beginners, it has a inbuilt html text viewer, so no more boring notepad to view the source of the html page, infact the text viewer highlights the syntax and it is more user friendly, parses each and every aspect of the webpage and categorises the same.
Built on V8 and webkit this browser is one of the trend setter for the modern web based applications, Two years of hard work from the Google engineers is ought to pay back.
Have a nice time with the new baby of Google !!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, September 08, 2008
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that,it does appear light compared to the standard browsers. and neat too as it avoids all the unwanted stuff [:)]
Google launched it in time but if it had been a little more efficient it would have widely been accepted in the enterprise field.
It s said to be an homely, browser and has a long way to go to become an enterprise browser.The reason being it has no ActiveX support which is widely used in industries.
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