Maybe they’ve kept this one really quiet or maybe I’m just the last to hear about it but the Google Chrome browser is here and many are tipping it to take a huge portion of Firefox, some even suggesting that it will be Bigger than Firefox by Christmas
If you’d like to download it and give it a try then the beta version is available here…
I’ve only had a quick toy around with the browser but my initial impressions are that it’s a clean, fast and easy to use browser but you wouldn’t really expect anything less from Google especially as it’s based on the Webkit engine used by Safari.
What they have done well is to break away from the design used by all the other browsers and moved the tabs above the address bar which creates a sense of increased space in the actual viewing area.
How Google integrate Google Chrome into their other applications is going to be extremely interesting, especially in terms of the direction they pursue for web developers who make up a high proportion of Firefox users due to their extensive range of plugins and addons.
For now I’ll be sticking with Firefox but should Google Chrome develop the ability to use Firebug type extensions then I could probably be easily swayed.
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I was eager to try Chrome, but apart from a couple of good ideas, such as running tabs as separate processes, I was underwhelmed by it.
One thing that peeved me is that horrible baby powder blue window frame decoration. Pathetic, I know, to be bothered by aesthetics, but I like my windows to use the same theme, and use the theme I choose. Are Google being deliberately ironic in producing a browser called Chrome where you cannot change its window chrome?
In a way I was relieved I didn’t like it as I use Ubuntu and would have had to run it in a VM anyway.
Cheers,
Mark
P.S. Thanks for a good and interesting site.
[…]What they have done well is to break away from the design used by all the other browsers and moved the tabs above the address bar which creates a sense of increased space in the actual viewing area.[…]
*cough*Opera did this first*cough*