Google Chrome

For all the tech heads, this week Google launched their internet browser: Google Chrome.

After exploring the chrome, I must say its an intelligent open source platform designed more towards “web applications.”

Did you read the fine print? It is 11 pages long, 117 paragraphs, 375 line, 4,302 words and 25,801 characters.

It seems to also be more crash-proof, as now one “bad tab” cannot crash the entire browser session which is great since I do experience it with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Just a fyi.....

Google's focus on JavaScript makes sense. JavaScript can eat up computer processor power if you didn't know, and it can slow down the browser.
One of the things Chrome promises is that if one browser tab crashes, it won't take down the whole program.

Chrome also has some cosmetic differences from IE and Mozilla Firefox, like putting the tabs at the very top of the window. I thought that was a good move on them user interface wise....but it's the browser's performance that really matters to everyone.

At work, I often have 40 or 50 tabs open in Firefox, grouped in different windows depending on which topic they pertain to. Frequently, Firefox would slow down all the other applications on my computer, and then my computer would just freeze.

At first I thought JavaScript was to blame, and blocked it from running the program, but then that made many sites unusable, and it didn't help.

The browser just froze.

It turns out its JavaScript but another technology used to make Web pages more interactive which is Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash plug-in. It's the program-within-a-program that plays YouTube videos and "splash" pages that some sites employ to dazzle you with animations before letting you do anything useful on the site....as you can see that is dying out in the web world. People are getting less patient and wanting to get straight to the point.

Anyways, the browser worked straight out of the box, with no plugins required, and imported all my firefox bookmarks, passwords and so on. Very fast page loads as well.

You can download it here

Give it a shot and let us know what you think!