02 Sep 08 Chrome First Impressions
As a Firefox lover, i have to admit, Google Chrome is looking pretty slick and i could well be moving from Firefox to Chrome.
There’s a few things i like right away;
- No crap at the top of the window/page – just the bare minimum, increasing vertical page real estate.
- You can search google from within the url address bar – very handy
- ‘Incognito mode’ which basically allows you to browse under cover, leaving no traces of what sites you visit – very handy if multiple users are on your PC.
- on start up, it shows your most visited pages in a thumbnail fashion – very handy
- on start up, it displays a bookmarks toolbar which is a great use of space.
So overall, Chrome looks really impressive yet simple – a typical Google product. What do you guys think?!
02 Sep 08 Google Browser Leaked
Yesterday, Google was confirmed it was launching it’s new open source internet browser – called ‘Google Chrome’.
As with all things Google, you can expect Google Chrome to become an overnight success and have both Internet Explorer and Firefox hot under the collar.
Taken from Google’s official blog;
“Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.”
Good news for webmasters and tech heads as it adds more competition for IE and Firefox. Google Chrome will be released for BETA download later today at google.com/chrome.
You can find a comic demo of it here.
