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Google just released their new browser, Chrome. It’s a pretty cool, lightweight browser that renders sites pretty fast. Good news for India 
where broadband’s still not well penetrated.
While it a test drive. So far, I’ve got to say I’m a bit impressed. It’s fast, Mind-blowingly fast.
Other than that, it’s pretty featureless. It seems like Google decided to mix up Firefox with Safari. It has Firefox’s amazing rendering speeds, and Safari’s text field stretching. Besides that, Chrome doesn’t offer a
- As of right now, there’s no form of addon support. No way to block ads. Scrolling (at least on my laptop) is still kinda buggy, unless Google considers flying through pages at a billion lines per second with a single flick of the scroll wheel to be a feature.
- The tabbed browsing is pretty nice, actually. It’s really smooth moving tabs around and switching between them. The animations are really slick.
One thing that actually gets me a bit is that I’m pretty sure that this is based largely on Firefox. It’s got full support for keyword searching, and IP Chicken even reports back browser information as Mozilla.
One thing that really worries me, though, is Google’s Terms of Service for Chrome. Essentially, everything you type in Chrome and send - email, web forums, or chat - is your property, but Google reserves the right to use this information however they please. Also, your browsing history is all saved and logged on Google’s servers.
- However, they also threw in a “In Cognito” mode. Or a “porn mode”, as it’s going to be more appropriately used. When in Porn Mode, your browsing history isn’t saved and cookies are cleared. Whether or not this is still stored on Google’s servers, I’m not sure.
Basically, if you’re going to browse anything that you wouldn’t want anybody to find out, I’d advise against using Chrome. However, if you need something small, lightweight, and really fast, Chrome is pretty damn good.
Google software engineer Ben Goodger introduces Chrome
Until this thing supports ad blocking and more customization, I won’t be switching from Firefox as a permanent solution any time soon, but it’s still nice for very quick browsing.
While we’re using the in cognito mode, something better strikes back with the OpenSource.
You can download chrome here
Developers, students, hackers can visit here
September 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Installing this is a bad Idea, everyone I know is uninstalling this.I think google is on the verge of becoming microsoft
, Instead of just working with Firefox and Innovating on the present browser they are creating a new one so that they can utilize the Adsense… ?? Kinda off pisses me off what google is becoming.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
mate……..I understand Ur excitement @ the new browser but why this on a security forum????? SECURITY ARTICLES ONLY PLEASE….OR this blog’ll lose its position in search engines
Sorry f this sounds rude…..just had to make a point
September 4th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Its an interesting take on how a web browser should be designed. At first glance, it seems somewhat featureless, but I am quite sure that Google was intending for the browser to be that way. For a company building some of the most powerful web based applications today, it makes sense to take some of the complexity out of the tool being used to view the sites. Too soon to make my mind up yet, but my eye has been caught.
Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes for the first exploit to be released?
Has anyone done any sniffing to see what is sent home to Google? (I’m thinking that since they make their cash off of clicks and hits..)
September 15th, 2008 at 12:37 am
I have installed it, but wary of using it. What’s with the uninstalling problem though?
Sticking to Firefox.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
google chrome rocks.. i have been using it since its launch..its the best!