Google Chrome – The New Internet Browser On The Block Is Ready To Be Downloaded

Google Chrome, the new internet browser from Google which is in it’s beta is now ready to be downloaded by the general public. Google Chrome is currently only available to Windows, so sorry to those of you who are running MacOsX or Linux as you’ll have to wait to sometime in the future before being able to try out Google Chrome

Google Chrome is an open source browser which combines many of the top features of the few popular internet browsers such as Firefox 3, Safari and Opera whilst streamlining and simplifying the interface.

Some of Google Chromes more touted features are:

• Increase in speed as Google Chrome is based on Webkit which powers Safari, however it has added a more powerful Javascript engine called V8 which substantially increases it’s speed.
• Simple and intuitive interface which leaves more room for the actual internet, balancing the need of features and too many features.
• Increased security by the sand-box fashion in which Google Chrome was built which sand-boxes things that go through the browser, thus protecting the computer.
• Better under-the-hood design which protects other Google Chrome tabs from closing even though one of its tab has crashed, a syndrome called “Sad Tab”.

I downloaded Google Chrome when as soon as I knew it had been released and I must say that I’m quite happy with it’s performance. I can definitely feel it’s faster than Firefox 3 which is the fastest browser I have ever used before Google Chrome. I won’t be abandoning Firefox 3 anytime soon though as I rely on too many plugins on it such as Roboform. The other reason why I can’t make Google Chrome my default browser is because it is not suited for usage with many tabs open as you can’t scroll through the tabs, rather, the tabs become smaller. I usually have from anywhere between 30 to 100 plus tabs open on Firefox 3, but this is not possible on Google Chrome.

The release of Google Chrome is certainly good news for everyone, as end-users get a wider choice and web designers like myself can hope that more people will see how incompetent and switch to another browser. Even now, I have totally stopped trying to “fix” my site on Internet Explorer as it needs so many kinds of hacks to make it display my blog properly that I feel it is no longer worth it .

Anyway, click here to Download Google Chrome, or here to check out the Google Chrome comic which explains it’s new features.

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