The latest internet browser named Google Chrome, put the challenges between current popular internet browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
The Chrome browser was designed to match the future generation of internet web browser with enhance graphic and multimedia support was announced in a Google Blog Yesterday.
At first, it will launch for Windows Operating System in 100 countries and the Mac and Linux versions will released after that. You can download the windows version here.
The Google Chrome is free to download. Besides that, the source code is open source so it can be modify by anyone.
Here is the basic features of Google Chrome:
- Fully open source (Webkit) - enable other programmer to changes and improves the browser
- Clean, simple and efficient user interface.
- Multi-Threaded JavaScript execution and optimization - enable website loads faster than any other browser. Especially for AJAX based websites
- Asynchronous multi processing - No need to wait for a single process to complete. That’s mean Chrome can do more than one thing at a time and allow multiple execution that allow website loads faster.
- Separate process for each tab - This is useful especially for bugs. If one tab has bugs, only the data at the specified tab is loss without terminating the program (IE or Firefox can’t do this
) - Less memory usage and efficient memory management
- Improves bookmarking system - saves the most visited pages for fast access (this almost like Speed Dial function in Opera Browser)
More details about Google Chrome features can be found here.
Will Chrome dominate the current internet browser and put challenges between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox? As we currently know, most people (around 60% - 80%) currently used Internet Explorer as their main internet browser with Mozilla Firefox as the second browser.
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8 Comments Received
September 2nd, 2008 @ 9:47 PM
OOPS!!! Chrome shows ads without any content! Its documented here… what a way to generate clicks!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTd8IZUrNZ0
September 4th, 2008 @ 10:15 AM
Interesting timing on this. Firefox was just gaining some market share and now Google drops in to the party. Chrome is very cool but without the ability to add 3rd party apps, it will lag behind.
September 4th, 2008 @ 10:20 AM
from my limited experience on Google Chrome, the only advantage of it against Firefox is speed, other things like Extensions, scripts, … Google Chrome is behind Firefox. I wont change browser in the near future.
September 4th, 2008 @ 11:29 PM
i think it is interesting to try it. But I hear there is still a bug, hope it will fix soon. More internet browser is more interesting to see…
October 11th, 2008 @ 3:14 AM
chrome strikes me mainly because of its fabulous speed. Its far ahead when compared to FF and IE.
The only problem here i face is that it sometimes crashes abruptly. i wish google is working on this and will release a problem free chrome soon.
October 18th, 2008 @ 11:08 PM
for me flock rocks
as it has almost all the facilities of firefox plus it is gr8 for social sites
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December 12th, 2008 @ 12:01 AM
Especially with Google Chrome coming out of beta so early, it will be a big contender soon enough!
March 13th, 2009 @ 9:23 AM
I just can’t quite get into Chrome, I am not sure what it is but I have to stick with Firefox
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