Monday, March 29, 2010

Why Google Chrome always has been my Cream of the Crop


Among the all web browsers I've experienced, Google Chrome is the one which made me practically enjoy the web. When initially released in September, 2008, I discovered it on the corner of one of the most visited website, Google, obviously; downloaded and installed it on my machine. I was really happy, when I find that now I don't have to actually wait for the browser to open; it just open so quickly, though that machine was a piece of crap. Since then, I just got rid of that crappy web browser, which calls itself Firefox. 

Two year later, since I never left Chrome; the people to which I suggest it really like it. The webpage is viewed more widely through the minimalist interface. The speed is the best bit of the software. They say that it's the fastest web browser this world has even seen; this is fact, people. It opens faster than any other web browser; it loads pages faster than ever, and what I'm stating here is based on my experience with the software. Google Chrome is the first web browser to achieve a perfect score in the Acid3 Test, which is used to test how well a web browser follows certain selected elements from certain web standards. 
The freaky menu bar is replaced with a pair of menus at the top-right corner of the Chrome window. Among the speed and simplicity, if brings out more than a few distinct feature. Chrome includes dynamic tabs, so feel free to working with tabs; pin it, move it, make a new window out of it, drag it to the top of the screen to maximize it, exchange it from one Chrome window to another, close and re-open it with a blink of an eye, do so much more just with tabs. 

Each tab has its own process, so once in a blue moon, if a tab crashes, the tab crash won't crash the whole browser, it just needs a quick hit on the Reload button, rather than wanting the whole browser to restart. If the crash is just caused by a plugin running on that webpage, Chrome takes the situation in hand, so singly the plugin crashes, not the entire webpage. This technique is called sandboxing, which Chrome uses, to uphold its remarkable stability. 



Chrome is the first browser to introduce distinctive features like Bookmark Sync, which syncs the users' bookmarks automatically to the browser via a Google Account; Google Gears, which allows users to use their web applications in an interface similar to desktop applications; the Omnibox, with which Google Chrome refers to its address bar that combines with a search field; and Incognito Mode, which is among the best features of Google Chrome. Browsing in Incognito mode will neither store browsing history, search history, nor cookies on the computer. This is very handy when one is not using the Internet on the personal computer. Common features like browser themes and extensions also exist. 

Google Chrome is free and open source software, available for download at http://chrome.google.com for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. In these two years, it never disappointed me, and never had a complaint against it. Hope that you won't too.


 

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