Review by Headsvett
(4 months ago, using version 0.0.0.0)
Features:
Performance:
Interface:
Price:
This browser, to me, is the best ever!
Its fast, its simple, yet is advanced under the hood
Features:
Being somewhat new to the browser arena, chrome dosent have too many
features, nor does it try to, instead keeping things clean and letting you focus
on the web. Chrome was however the first to introduce sandbox tabs, as well as
incognito mode (though the latter could possibly have been in opera prior to
chromes release, im not sure).
Chrome also has a single adressbar, but has intergrated search into it.
Visit a site once, and use its search bar once, and you will be able to search
that site right from the adress bar. Ill get back to this in the interface
section.
The browser is missing some bare bones stuff however, the lack of a built in
RSS reader comes to mind.
Performance:
Though i cant provide any specs, Chrome has been pretty stable for me. The
sandbox tabs help alot here. If a site freezes you can right click an empty spot
along the tab section to open chromes own task manager, which shows tabs and
plugins as diffrent processes. From there you can end them, in which the tab or
plugin "blacks out", and is then unfrozen to do whatever you like.
Interface:
Chromes interface is a new approach in its interface. For one the tabs
align at the titlebar of the browser. This works wonders when maximized, since
you can move your cursor to the top of the screen, then move left and right to
change tabs. This works alot like how moving the cursor to the bottom lets you
switch focus on apps in the task bar.
When restored however, the "handle" above the tabs that is used to
move the window around can be a bit too thin.
Chrome has also done a new aproach to the adressbar. Instead of having two
seperate inputs (URL and search), chrome has combined these in a very user
friendly and timesaving way.
Searching for something with the deafult search engine is as easy as
entering a query. If you want to search for a URL, just put a ? in first.
Even better is the fact that the adressbar lets you search any other site
with a search bar (mostly, chrome does not "pick up" gizmodo for
example)
All you have to do is use the sites search bar once, and chrome will
reconize it.
From then on, you can start typing the sites adress, and as soon as the
auto-complete guesses the site (usually after one or two letters), press tab,
then enter your query.
The interface is pretty easy to get used to, and once you do, you wont wanna
go back.
Price/value:
What is there to say?
Its free!
Closing comments:
Safari users will no doubt love it (i was previusly a safari user)
IE users (who use IE by choice) might miss the visual search, the web slices
and the accellerators from IE8. Some alternatives to these features might come
when google rolls out plug-in support however.
Firefox users who use alot of plugins will probably miss alot of features,
though again, plug-in support is coming.
Review by Headsvett (4 months ago, using version 0.0.0.0)
This browser, to me, is the best ever!
Its fast, its simple, yet is advanced under the hood
Features:
Being somewhat new to the browser arena, chrome dosent have too many features, nor does it try to, instead keeping things clean and letting you focus on the web. Chrome was however the first to introduce sandbox tabs, as well as incognito mode (though the latter could possibly have been in opera prior to chromes release, im not sure).
Chrome also has a single adressbar, but has intergrated search into it. Visit a site once, and use its search bar once, and you will be able to search that site right from the adress bar. Ill get back to this in the interface section.
The browser is missing some bare bones stuff however, the lack of a built in RSS reader comes to mind.
Performance:
Though i cant provide any specs, Chrome has been pretty stable for me. The sandbox tabs help alot here. If a site freezes you can right click an empty spot along the tab section to open chromes own task manager, which shows tabs and plugins as diffrent processes. From there you can end them, in which the tab or plugin "blacks out", and is then unfrozen to do whatever you like.
Interface:
Chromes interface is a new approach in its interface. For one the tabs align at the titlebar of the browser. This works wonders when maximized, since you can move your cursor to the top of the screen, then move left and right to change tabs. This works alot like how moving the cursor to the bottom lets you switch focus on apps in the task bar.
When restored however, the "handle" above the tabs that is used to move the window around can be a bit too thin.
Chrome has also done a new aproach to the adressbar. Instead of having two seperate inputs (URL and search), chrome has combined these in a very user friendly and timesaving way.
Searching for something with the deafult search engine is as easy as entering a query. If you want to search for a URL, just put a ? in first.
Even better is the fact that the adressbar lets you search any other site with a search bar (mostly, chrome does not "pick up" gizmodo for example)
All you have to do is use the sites search bar once, and chrome will reconize it.
From then on, you can start typing the sites adress, and as soon as the auto-complete guesses the site (usually after one or two letters), press tab, then enter your query.
The interface is pretty easy to get used to, and once you do, you wont wanna go back.
Price/value:
What is there to say?
Its free!
Closing comments:
Safari users will no doubt love it (i was previusly a safari user)
IE users (who use IE by choice) might miss the visual search, the web slices and the accellerators from IE8. Some alternatives to these features might come when google rolls out plug-in support however.
Firefox users who use alot of plugins will probably miss alot of features, though again, plug-in support is coming.