Google Chrome

Blogging from Google Chrome

 

What is Google Chrome?

Google Chrome is the new web browser by Google (duh) incase you still have no idea what is google chrome, just google for it if not just go to this link http://tools.google.com/chrome/?hl=en-US 

I've tried it for the past few hours and here is my verdict (so far)...

• each tab has its own process. This is good when one page crash the whole application does not crash. Some of you might say that Firefox n Opera has this "open up all last session" function, so no worries lar. It is the same. It is not... when you are running on streamyx or when your internet is REALLY slow and you are running out of time. Imagine if the last sessions includes opening up a page that cause the browser to hang, then there's no point of having the "open last session" function. It eats up RAM as much as Firefox, so I might be switching over to Chrome for the next few days to test it out more....
• loads up pretty fast. So far I've tried to open up youtube and Facebook and surprisingly, it loads up pretty fast for Facebook compare to Firefox. From the video I've watch from Google developer team, chrome was design to loads up and run javascript easily and faster.. or something like that... so i guess loading up webpages will be much faster compare to others... i think....since most website is running on javascript (correct me when i am wrong)
• nice and neat interface. It really maximize my screen and especially now since my PC is running with a widescreen. IT is really SPACIOUS and neat looking. No more header at the top but just the tabs and the 3 buttons on the right side. And downloads are shown at the bottom of the window. NEAT! When you load up a new window, most viewed website are shown in thumbnails and this is easy for fast access to your favourite or frequent visited website. 

 

thumbnails of most visited page

downloads are shown at the bottom of the window (only on the tab where you download the file)

• opening/running web application (application shortcuts). You are able to create shortcuts to webpages and store it in your desktop, quicklauch or start menu easily by just clicking on a button located on the top right corner. 

add web application shortcuts to desktop, quick launch or start menu

• Incognito. This is similiar to Private Browsing feature in Safari (if some of you are familiar with Safari). It will not store any history, cache or cookies into your system unless you decide to bookmark the link or download files. 
• one simple input box. It is located at the top. You can search google by just typing the search keywords on the address bar. Address of famous website will be shown as you type the address on it. 
• a task manager of its own. To view how much of resources your open websites are using, you can right click somewhere near the tab and access to the task manager to view the memory used. You can kill/close the tab/process from that task manager. 

task manager

By the way, i found out that there is no Cut function for right click when i am writing this post. Luckily, the ctrl+x function works fine. If not, I'll have to save this post as a draft and then open it in Firefox to edit the pictures location. Hope someone from Google is reading this post. Please add a Cut function. :P

That's all for now i guess. I'll add in more points later if I manage to find any bug or advantages of Google Chrome.