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Google Chrome
In case you have not heard, Google has just released a new web browser named "Chrome." There are lots of technical info about it on Google's website. A cute PR trick is that they release a web comics book here http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ to promote it.
Chrome is billed as a new generation web browser, designed from the group up to run new web stuff: like video, chatting, widgets, etc. The implied message is that Internet Explorer and Firefox were suitable mostly for old web stuff like text-based web pages. Chrome is also open-source.
I tried it for a few hours today. It is notably fast to install, and use much less memory than either Internet Explorer or Firefox on my machine. On my laptop, IE and Firefox usually grab about 150 - 350 mb of RAM, but Chrome typically takes only 30-40mb. Chrome also runs very fast for most web sites.
However, I did notice several problems. Most importantly, Chrome often freezes up on my machine. Since my trial started 3 hours ago, I have had to close and restart Chrome 3 times. Perhaps Google still needs to work out some kinks for this software.
There have been a proliferation of choices for web browsers. Aside from IE, we can now choose from Firefox, Safari, Opera, and now Chrome. Chrome seems most like Opera in my short trial: small, speedy, with a clean interface, but not as steady as Firefox.
Chrome is billed as a new generation web browser, designed from the group up to run new web stuff: like video, chatting, widgets, etc. The implied message is that Internet Explorer and Firefox were suitable mostly for old web stuff like text-based web pages. Chrome is also open-source.
I tried it for a few hours today. It is notably fast to install, and use much less memory than either Internet Explorer or Firefox on my machine. On my laptop, IE and Firefox usually grab about 150 - 350 mb of RAM, but Chrome typically takes only 30-40mb. Chrome also runs very fast for most web sites.
However, I did notice several problems. Most importantly, Chrome often freezes up on my machine. Since my trial started 3 hours ago, I have had to close and restart Chrome 3 times. Perhaps Google still needs to work out some kinks for this software.
There have been a proliferation of choices for web browsers. Aside from IE, we can now choose from Firefox, Safari, Opera, and now Chrome. Chrome seems most like Opera in my short trial: small, speedy, with a clean interface, but not as steady as Firefox.
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Permalink Reply by Bi_Gay_Men on -
moved to the Technology category!
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Permalink Reply by Marius on -
Chrome seems to function about as well as iTunes does on my PC. In half an hour I have to end-process the damn program at least 3 times. And got bored with doing it... Maybe you just got a crappy installation file like I did. In any case, it sounds like a trial release so see if you can give feedback to google and maybe help 'em sort it out, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
In my opinion stick to tried-and-trusted untill the newer versions are mostly error-free.
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Permalink Reply by Paul in Ohio on -
You didn't mention that this is a Beta version. One should expect problems and there is a Google group to collect feedback, etc. to improve Chrome for the release version.
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