Wednesday, September 3, 2008

google's maiden browser - CHROME (beta)


On this Tuesday i.e 2nd Sept Google has finally released its maiden browser called CHROME.
basically this is a web browser with a Google imprint on it.with CHROME Google has finally entered into the much lucrative segment of web browsers.Currently this market is having 3 Major players viz. Microsoft, Mozilla and apple in which Mozilla occupies the highest share in the market followed by Microsoft and apple.
last week Microsoft released its premium browser IE8. The release of CHROME is seen as Google's answer to Microsoft.
Now coming to the new features section in CHROME it has a powerful java script called V8 which Google claims,powers the next generation web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.One more feature which Google explains "By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites.we improved speed and responsiveness across the board" . the other features include safe browsing (user data will not be sent to Google) and there are many technical changes which will make this browser compete with others effectively. Now coming to speed, as per our observations there is no such "dramatic" increase in speed, IE and FIREFOX are far better than this.but the overall look is fresh, elegant and simple. But remember this is still a Beta version, so many changes will be done before the final product is released.

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