It's so amazing how we are being flooded with new browsers to choose from. The major players are introducing newer versions of their former applications like IE 8, Opera, Firefox 3, and Safari. But Google has entered the fray with their new browser named "Chrome". Now if you've used any of the former browsers you'll notice may of the same features in "Chrome", and it seems that they've taken the best of what other browsers do and made a top notch application. Check out some of the features below:
- Incognito Mode - Or Porn Mode as it's known by most people. It allows you to visit web sites but leave no trace in your browser history or in cookies.
- Smart Address Bar - Combines google search bar and the address bar and gives you a comprehensive search feature that's a little better than the version in Firefox 3.
- Tab detachment/attachment - Which allows you to rip a tab from the parent browser and open it as a stand alone, and return it without any loss of data.
- Session Separation - This is my favorite feature! If you've opened many tabs in Firefox or IE*** and you open task manager, you'll notice that each session ties up more and more of your system's memory. If you close the session, the memory is still tied up until you close FF or IE completely. Chrome runs each tab session separate, allowing the memory to be returned once you close a tab without having to close the browser altogether.
[Google Chrome via Gizmodo]
2 comments:
I've been trying the browser out since it came out, and I am impressed. About the only thing I don't like is the way it handles bookmarks and the home page. I have a widescreen monitor so I like to have the bookmarks on the side otherwise I have half my monitor as wasted space. But I'm sure they'll add this as it goes on. And I'm sure most of the problems I have stem from the fact that developers are still not programming anything to take advantage of 64-bit operating systems.
I'm about to give Google Chrome a whirl.
Interestingly, it is my understanding that the two main Mozilla "Open Source" developers which developed Firefox were gobbled up by Google; and it's no coincidence that the main GUI theme of Firefox and the name of this new Google browser are one in the same: "Chrome".
I am not sure if these developers are still contractually allowed to continue to participate in Mozilla.
Google is (afterall) one of the largest financial donors to the Mozilla/Firefox project.
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