Google Chrome

[thersites]

Google's new browser "Chrome" is pretty slick.

There are many technical reasons to like it.

The best nontechnical reason to like it? Incognito mode.

You know what it's for.

It's what the internet is for.

Comments

I agree

[zebrahater]

It also seems to render pages much more quickly than firefox.

Unfortunately, I don't know that I can use it as my primary browser until someone comes up with an ad blocker for it. Although i suppose I could just modify my hosts file to block ad servers.

Re: I agree

[thersites]

Adblocker will come along with many other extensions. You can at least disable flash very conveniently out of the box.

The rendering engine is WebKit (although they used an older version for some reason, which has resulted in one known security flaw) which is faster than Gecko. (Safari also uses WebKit, but the current version.)

[ravelincase]

I am using it right now!

There are lots of little bugs, lots of little features, lots of little drawbacks. Something I dislike the most is that I feel it's not as hot key friendly as Firefox. It's also just plain not as capable. But what it does, it seems to do well.

[ravelincase]

Though, while we're on the subject of neat browsing things, I am having fun with this: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

[thersites]

It doesn't have the library of addons that firefox has.

It does have a 2% market share after being available for only one day, which is pretty amazing.

The potential is there for it to be really great, because each tab is its own process. That means you can crash one tab without crashing the whole browser. It even comes with its own task manager where you can kill one tab at a time.

Chrome also uses memory more efficiently over time. Surf for 30 minutes with chrome and 30 minutes with firefox and compare their memory usage.

[squeegeebob]

Here's the write-up over at AnandTech. I just wonder why they didn't mention Opera in there...

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3398

Brock sez

[anonymous]

I haven't tried it, because it's not available for Mac yet. Safari has had "Private Browsing" for years. I love Firefox 3. Hopefully other browsers will pick up on the intelligent memory management aspect of Chrome. That's about the only thing that really appeals to me from what I've read so far. Faster = good too of course, but all browsers have been getting faster over time.