Ok so I've tested
Google Chrome out, and I have to say I love it. Google gets yet another thumbs up from me. First look at
Google Chrome I wasn't so sure. My first thoughts were, I have no menu.
Then I see some buttons on the upper right hand side. These two buttons can handle everything all other browsers handle in seven buttons, thus giving you more screen space for viewing your sites. One thing that I have found interesting was the New Incognito Window for all you sneaky and or paranoid folks out there that want to keep your web surfing as private as you can, and saves you from deleting history files. I haven't really found a use for it myself, but I'm sure lots of you will. It does however give a nice little disclaimer.
Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:- Websites that collect or share information about you
- Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit
- Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys
- Surveillance by secret agents
- People standing behind you
I just love the "People standing behind you" google always likes to throw in a little sense of humor.
One of the new features that I do enjoy how ever is the Create Application Shortcuts. This will allow you to create a short cut to a website on your desktop, start menu, and Quick Launch Bar. Just click on the button that looks like a sheet of paper and you'll find it.
I'm also a huge fan of how it display blank windows, instead of just having blank space they make use of that space and place screen shots of the nine most visited pages in your history. Allowing you to just click and go. Also gives you a nice little list of your bookmarks. Being some one that hates wasted space, this was an awesome idea.
You will also notice that the address bar is a lot longer then most browsers, that's because most browsers have to allow for built in searches, such as yahoo, and google. Well with Google Chrome you no longer need it. You just type in the address bar and google already searches for it while your typing, it only displays a couple of suggestions, but if you finish typing you just hit enter and it will take you to the search results through google.
Now lets talk about the bad, this is a new browser so there's going to be some bad. It's still in Beta so please don't judge to hard. But Chrome seems to be lacking lots of plug-ins, but knowing google, they will come soon enough. But as for now I'm not able to log in to check my 401K or play NES games through the vNES site. But it would appear that google had plan for some sites to not work, so they put a tool in the menu for you. So you can report bugs or broken web sites. So I do keep firefox around for such occasions but I use google chrome for everything else.
