Google's Chrome browser

Google has entered the web browser segment too. On September 2, it released Chrome.

Chrome means “the user interface of a browser”, and the new product’s focus is precisely that. It seeks to reduce the user interface, which means there aren’t too many things filling up your window. Google said, “We don’t want to interrupt anything the user is trying to do. If you can just ignore the browser, we’ve done a good job.” 

I just downloaded the new tool. I’m just a few minutes into it, and it’s too early to make any value judgement.

Some features:

1) At first look, it has all the known hallmarks of Google – simple, clean and uncluttered. The browser window fills up the whole screen. 

2) The address bar — which Google calls Omnibox — also works also as a search bar. When you type an address, it prompts search for that term on the web. Not surprising as Search is Google’s USP.

3) Another interesting feature is that each tab is a different browser. One can drag a tab out and make it a new window. But I couldn’t convert the separate window back into a tab. The advantage of this is that if one tab crashes, the whole browser with many tabs open, will not crash. That’s quite an improvement. 

4) On phishing, if Chrome thinks it’s a fraudulent site, then a warning window opens, saying “Suspected phishing site”. This too looks like a good improvisation.

5) There are a lot of things that aren’t there. There is no provision for RSS feeds and to manage the bookmarks. Probably they will all come soon.

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