Google Browser
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Google Browser
Google has recently released their own version of a web browser – Google Chrome.
Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browserâ€, this will be based on their existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.
The browser also includes a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, which has been built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it on their own engine. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today. Google also say they’re using a “multi-process design†which means “a bit more memory up front†but over time also “less memory bloat.†When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager, and shut it off without crashing your whole browser.
Google Chrome browser also has an address bar that comes with auto-completion features known as ‘omnibox’., Google says that it offers search suggestions, top pages that you’ve visited, pages you didn’t visit but which are popular amd more. The omnibox also lets you enter e.g. “digital camera†if the title of the page you previously visited was “Canon Digital Cameraâ€. Additionally, the omnibox lets you search a website of which it captured the search box; you need to type the site’s name into the address bar, like “amazonâ€, and then hit the tab key and enter your search keywords.
This new browser also comes with a “speed dial” feature which is very similar to the one of Opera. On that page you will see your most visited webpages as 9 small screenshot thumbnails of the websites. To the side, you will also see a couple of your recent searches and your recently bookmarked pages, as well as recently closed tabs.
Google Chrome also comes with a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito†window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer”. Wow that seems like a cool feature to me. The latest version of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 also has a similar feature which they call InPrivate. Google’s use-case for when you might want to use the “incognito†feature is e.g. to keep a surprise gift a secret. As far as Microsoft’s InPrivate mode is concerned, people also speculated it was a “p0rn mode.â€
In Google Chrome, Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without having to have an address bar and toolbar. Mozilla has a project called Prism that aims to do similar. In order to fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites. Google also promises that whatever runs in a tab is sandboxed so that it won’t affect your machine and can be safely closed.
So overall I feel that Google Chrome is an excellent browser to try out. Download it Free today!
