Chrome anyone? Google's new browser

Wednesday, September 3, 2008



http://www.google.com/chrome


It might sound trivial but the ability to kill individual tabs within Chrome could spell the end of the hair-tearing frustration of a single rogue web page bringing the entire browser crashing down.

Not only that but the way the browser will run every tab in an isolated "sandbox" can help provide better protection from malicious sites.

"Each tab is attached to a separate process and can be managed separately.

"It is a bit like what Window NT offered in terms of stability. Most of the current generation of browsers would crash if there was a badly behaved tab but Chrome can quit the tab and it will still work."

General review comments

1. The font does not look very sharp and clear.

2. Chrome is much faster than IE and firefox.

3. Chrome works perfectly even with 30 tabs open.

4. It takes much less memory and processor share compared to IE and Firefox.

5. The default home page with tabbed thumbnail images of frequently visited sites are pretty cool, even though it raises some privacy concerns.

6. During installation, it automatically downloaded all bookmarks from other browsers, which raises some privacy concerns.

I will post a more detailed review of Google Chrome browser after I research little bit more.

Chrome isn't going to crash and burn. Not a hope. Google puts lots of widgety little applications out
there, like Picaso, for instance.

For those of us who enjoy avoiding microsoft, and are tired of Firefox hogging memory and crashing, Chrome looks like a pretty good choice. Sure, maybe beta is not perfectly stable yet, but still, it has a light footprint, runs pretty fast, is easy on the eye and does a few cool things. If somehow they could incorporate the advantages of Firefox with its extensions for gmail, it would be perfect.

Posted by Pithaly at 10:05 PM  

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