• ‹ previous
• 391 of 1760
• next ›

The Google Made browser, Chrome, has only been out since last night, but I have been testing it as hard as possible to see if it is a good alternative to firefox.

Out of the box this browser sports some really impressive features, the best (and worst of which) are a result of its slimmed down, minimal design and concept.

So let's jump right into the cool stuff:  I like the built in task manager. Instead of your browser crashing whenever you load some crappy bloated page, each tab is technically independent from each other, so just like with ctrl+alt+del in windows, you get a menu for your browser with processes, you can key into which tab is slowing you down and terminate it.

Tabs can do more than be reordered; they can be pulled out of the browser and arranged into their own windows.

When you load a New Tab window, instead of getting a blank page, there is the 'New Tab' page which consists of your 9 most visited sites, your recent bookmarks and a google search bar.

Because Chrome does use a lot of your history data for its features, there is an incognito mode which gives you stealth browsing so nobody will find out your most visited website is actually monkeydwarfporn.com

The slimmed-down/streamline look makes websites appear to be in full screen mode when maximized, which is nice.

For the programmers and web designers the tools for analyzing webpages are way better than those offered in other browsers. I believe they integrated firebug into this, which is interesting, and the source page has line number… o goody.

Conclusion:  This is not ready to be your default browser. It lacks features like extensions and the bookmark management is horrible (use delicious or google bookmarks), but I still think this is a promising browser. I like it better than Safari (which is what Chrome was built on top of).

(Note-I am the type of user that usually has 40 tabs open in more then one firefox window, because of that I have to usually spread my web activity to a completely different browser such as IE, so Chrome for the time being, is going be my IE replacement, whenever Firefox seems bloated.)  Plus the task manager allows you to crash Flash on purpose which is cool when youtube videos refuse to load.

Download Google Chrome Beta and/or find more info about it @ Lifehacker