Google has many, many projects running. One of them includes Google Chrome (previously known as Chronium), their webbrowser. I’ve been using it for a month now and it’s quite good actually. Before Chrome, I’ve always used Firefox due to its speed, tabbed browsing and safety. However, I get the feeling Chrome is faster (it boots faster, for me), has the same easy tabbed browsing and decent security (I heard Firefox was better at that). A few other features are the ‘most visited’ page where you can easily access your favorite pages, downloads are seperate on each page and my favorite feature: typing an adress in your bar will make it search in Google for relevant links or earlier visited links. For example, when I want to go to IMDB, I only need to type the ‘i’ and voila, imdb shows up immediately. This makes browsing so much quicker and more convenient. However, Chrome is not without bugs. It’s still in its beta phase and you can experience problems with it. I haven’t yet. Try it out at Google Chrome.
Google Chrome
September 18, 2008 | 3 Comments
September 29, 2008 at 13:53
What is really interesting is the amazingly high amount of market share Google has already gained in such a short time period. 6 per cent of the visitors of one my mainstream websites uses Chrome, while the use of Chrome is 13 per cent among the visitors of one of my websites which has a more tech-savvy audience.
After two weeks of using Chrome I went back to using Firefox, it feels just a little more complete. Bookmarks are Chrome’s weakest link in my opinion. And I think the awesomebar is just a little bit more awesome then the omnibar, although the awesomebar could learn some useful stuff (imdb) from the omnibar.
After years of careful finetuning of Firefox, it’s only slightly better then Chrome, so Google did a very good job once again. So when are you going to write about Android?
September 29, 2008 at 22:33
To be honest, I’m not interested in the Android at all. Well, not for now at least.
September 30, 2008 at 17:28
typical iPhone owner behaviour
Seriously: Android has the potential to become the ultimate phone os, but only if google makes the right decisions. Up till now they are doing pretty well.