In the beginning of this September, the biggest news probably in the technology sector is the launched of Google Chrome, a Google in-house browser. While many of us are still scratching our heads why Google is launching this browser, there will be a little impact to the consumer market, as Google Chrome’s entry is primarily an experiment-oriented, that based on the needs of today’s Web application and users (See the Google Chrome comics). Consider this browser in its features rendered, such as stable, faster, secure, clean, simple, efficient, and lastly open source, this Google Chrome has became “good enough.”
According to the official Google blog, the launched of this Google Chrome is solely a finished product of the value-creation process, so users are advised to rethink it twice if they want to consider this browser as the replacement for their favorite browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or Safari. This browser’s technology uses a lightweight forms of components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, while minimizing the risk and damage from the crash of browser, with the invent of keeping multiple tabs as a separate sandbox. In addition, it also limiting the problems of slow loading with a new JavaScript engine, which Google called it V8 so that the user experience of browser can be enhanced in a tremendous manner.
Currently, Google Chrome is only available to be used in the Windows platform. Thus, a big question, as usual, how this Google Chrome that let Google to take on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is remained as a big question. However, with so many known downsides of Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s prominence on the browser market will likely to end in one day. Although this Google Chrome is in the beta phase, we can name Google as a cool browser vendor in user privacy protection. This can be viewed from the “New Incognito Window” which browser history or search history will be deleted after the user has closed the window. Meanwhile, I also like the convenience of this Google Chrome that let users to place their favorite Web pages as the shortcuts in a one-click manner. Also, the “Most visited” Web pages will be appeared on the front page of this Google Chrome as well.
