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Monday, September 08, 2008
Written by: Reload92
It has been a while since a new internet browser was born. So you can only imagine how geeks everywhere were literally pissing their pants when Google released its first browser, Chrome. I myself was one of those geeks, which is why today I will give you a short review.
After a short install I booted up Chrome and entered its homepage, which had my imported bookmarks from Firefox 3. Later on though it takes the sites you visit most and aligns them in little thumbnails on your homepage. Don't want a particular site to end up in your history? Turn on incognito mode which allows you to go anywhere you want without Chrome saving any of your search history, cookies, or page view history.
But probably the best thing about Google Chrome is that every time you open a new tab it opens a new process on your computer. So that means if one of your tabs is acting up and causing your computer to go haywire, just close that tab and everything will be all right. If this were to happen in say, Firefox or IE, it would crash before you could do anything.
That's pretty much all I can say about Google Chrome because the rest of it they basically copied and pasted from the best browsers (which isn't a bad thing). That is of course, until Google releases its code for developers to start making Add-ons and Plugins.
Overall Google Chrome gets a rock solid 4/5.
PS: For those of you who have downloaded Chrome, type in the browser; about:internets for an easter egg.
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Labels: Chrome, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, incognito, Review
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I'm not a fan, I find myself always closing the program down mid surfing. And I find it to the slowest of the three browers installed on my PC. IE, FF and GC.
I find it just as fast as Firefox. But I wouldn't trust myself primarily because I bought my computer in 2004. Man I need a new computer.....
2004? A young whipper-snapper in comparison to mine!
In its current form - sans extensions (which we're being promised will arrive one day) - I'm not overly impressed. When I switched from IE6 to FF2, it was mind-blowing. Here's a search box, tabs, RSS feed integration and massive extensibility.
Chrome really brings nothing new to the table...it's just pinching good bits from other browsers. There's no feature of Chrome that I can't get with Firefox - except tabs running as separate processes.