Chrome, Google's new web browser is now available for download. Now if you are like the millions of drones out there that still uses Internet Explorer (look at the top right hand corner of your browser, see that "e" with a diagonal ring going around it, that means you're a drone) then this news is nothing great.
If however you're a bit more net savvy and use safari, firefox or opera, then this news is a big deal. Again for the drones, web browsers are important because they can generally make your surfing experience more secure and faster, Internet Explorer is known to be the slowest among those I just mentioned and the least secure.
Google wanted to build their own browser to be less dependent on Microsoft for their search engine and for the kind of applications they want to launch in the future.
Just played with Chrome and I have to say, it is still rough (remember though it is still running as a beta, a test run if you like) but I like it, here's why;
1) It's minimalist, as you'd expect from google. Not much of a tool bar which gives more real estate to the website.
2) Each tab is supposedly a separate browser that you can drag to the desktop as its own window. Being a separate browser too it also means that if one tab crashes it won't affect the rest of the pages (although I hear from others this is not yet the case, I told you it was rough).
3) The address bar is also a search bar WHICH you can configure to use other search engines (how nice of google). For me though, I'd keep it with google.
I've played around with it and apart from a Microsoft notice saying that my junk mail hotmail e-mail address might not work perfectly under this new browser it has loaded all my usual pages without a problem. Facebook even seems to be faster although it did slow down loading pictures from my other blog www.sleepingonthebus.com (shameless plug).
The beauty of this browser though will come into its own when Google has worked on it a bit more. Here's the link - Chrome.
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