Google Chrome

The battle for Internet domination has reached new heights with the launching of Chrome by Google. Thanks to Jayce for the breaking news. Chrome was still in beta so expect some minor problems before the final version is out. Chrome is based on the open-source project Webkit, the same rendering engine used by Apple's Safari.

Market share of the top browsers

Chrome has taken the minimalist approach with the browser design. There are 2 words to describe Chrome "Slick and simple". It put tabs on top of the browser itself thus saving much space and enables a larger viewing area. Moreover, the tabs are detachable from the top and can be dragged out to form a new window itself. New tab pages display your nine most visited Web pages, as well as the searches you perform most, and your most recent bookmarks. This advancement benefit is that if 1 of the tab freezes, u can terminate the tab itself without restarting Chrome. Neat!

Chrome has a Omnibox address bar, sort of the awesome bar from Firefox. It searches the web as u type as well as the history and bookmarks. This means there is no search box in Chrome as u already has the hybrid bar. In addition, the root address of the webpage that you visit is being stressed bold in the Omnibox to notify you if u have accidentally visited harmful sites.

Omnibox

There is also an incognito mode whereby u can search the web without leaving any trace in the history. A good feature for those who surfs at other people's PC or porn lovers at work.

The most striking feature is the speed of course. Google claims that it is faster than the current IE and Firefox. But separate study by Firefox and IE8 beta yield different results.

Higher means faster

For general surfing, I did not encountered problems but there was a nagging problem with blogspot when I tried to copy the images in my draft blog but failed. Some ads also did not rendered correctly as it was in my blog. As it is still in beta, this is expected. There is also a drawback with Chrome where u can't recover back the tabs if it is closed unexpectedly.

If you are addicted to web application and want to try out cool things, this is what most people are waiting for now. It seems Google has everything to compete with Microsoft now. It is only a matter of time before Google launches its own operating system.

Please visit here to try out the beta.