Are you just starting out blogging? Need help writing your next post? Why not The Google Browser Chrome Released Today
Written by Jason Boom on September 2, 2008 – 8:00 pm
Google released their free Chrome browser today. This open source browser promises to be fast and quick with javascript applications, securing computers by sandboxing the websites they browse inside the tabs, and more than adequate with dynamic sites. I checked to see if G Chrome was downloadable when I first got online today, but found it hadn’t been released just yet. By mid afternoon, I was visiting www.google.com/chrome to see how it worked.
I was pleasantly surprised by the simple interface. Google created the browser from scratch, knowing that users like to watch videos, play flash games, and browse quickly from site to site. They also know most Web 2.0 sites have dynamic code to make them work. When I browsed to sites like Digg or Youtube, I was amazed at how fast they loaded. Others are comparing it to Opera.
Everyone should at least download the browser to see how your site looks in it — make sure it renders properly. There are also some neat features to mess around with, like the address bar suggestions/search and the incognito window.
The Incognito Window
I love the description of the Incognito window. They say to be wary of the following:
Going incognito doesn’t affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:
- Websites that collect or share information about you
- Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit
- Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys
- Surveillance by secret agents
- People standing behind you
Yes, be wary of the people standing behind you, secret agents, and other tin-foil hat wearing paranoids. Google’s got your back on this one.
The Skinny
My sythesized thoughts on the new browser. Tell me your thoughts in the comment section.
- The browser has no obvious IE 6 type of errors for my site.
- I can access many sites faster now, especially dynamic sites.
- I’m also scared of Google owning all the web.
- It will likely work well for dropping EC, except the EC toolbar won’t work with it. Well, no plugins work with it now.
- The “Most Visited” default tab rocks! It lets you quickly search, click on recent sites, and view recent bookmarks. Definitely a smart default screen. No reason why the IE one couldn’t do something similar.
- I like the search on both the history and favorites. It’s nice, not sure how much I’ll use it, but handy.
- I’m excited to see how they integrate other Google products with the browser, like Google Reader and Gmail. Any plugins related to those apps would be great.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I cannot test it, at least yet, there is not a Linux/Mac version. I looked some videos and it seems very well but I don’t know if it could be so popular like firefox.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Ahhh yes…are you using Linux? If so, which distro?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
One downside that I’ve noticed is no easy subscribe button for RSS…with FF, I could press one button (on the browser, not in the pages) and it would bring me directly to my google reader subscribe page. So that’s a downside. I mean, Google is my Reader and Google is my browser…can’t they get along?
And a weird little issue I’ve noticed is that I can scroll down with my touchpad, but not back up again. It’s a bit annoying. Aside from that, I’m digging it.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 am
This browser is speed and cool for Xp and vista Users.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
You’re right Chris, but I imagine there will be a lot of functionality added through plugins. Hopefully we see a nice plugin for G Reader — that would make my experience that much better.
I haven’t had the problems with the scrolling. I do wish the opacity of the unused tabs at the top were a little less. Overall its been great.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
it can run the java application and some of IE supported website can’t open it.
Will using back Firefox.
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September 4th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I find it funny that everyone has been commenting on how much more viewing space they have with Chrome. Of course you have more screen space, Chrome doesn’t have any toolbars available yet. Once you add the toolbars, it will be back to stage one. That’s probably the reason for the faster load times with Chrome as well.
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I say kill it with fire. I like it better than IE, but then you there isn’t much in life that is worse than Internet Exploder. I’ll stick with Firefox until Google gets the bugs out.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Still using Firefox, maybe in future when more plugins will be released for Chrome, I’ll use both :), anyway not using IE from long time ago… Great article…
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September 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Hey this one is new fast and secure too.A good Browser from google.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Chrome is the best.
checkout video on my blog.
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