Although I found out about Google Chrome only on 2nd of September many events have occured. In about an hour after the discovery the screenshots got leaked and I posted an article introducing the Google Chrome - a revolutionery web browser. In twelve hours the first beta was released.
First of all - it’s beta, it has to be glitchy. What disturbs me is that I have seen a very few Google’s technologies turning from beta into final release. Most of them are still beta, although developed very well.
The main view of the browser:
Browser's main view
It automatically fills the Quick Access window with the most visited sites, just as Opera does.
Also, you can move tab anywhere you want - even outside the window and make it separate.
Moving the history tab
As I’ve already mentioned in the previous post about Google Chrome, the processes table contains process for each tab of Google Chrome, which means you can kill it without crashing the application. Google Chrome has it’s own processes viewer from which you can kill any tab that bothers you.
Process view
Although nothing stopped me from killing a random process. What I got was…
A view produced by Chrome after killing a random process
Which is really brilliant and clever. Something is wrong, that’s for sure. I hope they will provide a tab name for each process in future releases.
What I liked a lot was a View source function. The highlighting is brilliant and very efficient.
View source function
What I like about the Google applications is that everything is shown into separate window / tab.
Separate tab for downloads and history is a very good decision. So, opening the downloads window shows up with the next screen.
Download window caption
Also some minor features, like highlighting the domain name to prevent phishing and search the site right in the address bar.
Highlighting the domain name
Search this site
The most annoying glitch is that my scroll-up function doesn’t work in the browser. Plus there are some rendering issues while switching between the tabs, crashes after opening e-mails in Gmail.
Chrome is completely open-source project and uses WebKit engine for rendering web pages. And what I have noticed is that rendering is much more faster than in any browser I have tried.
Although it has some bugs and glitches - but overall it’s great for the very first beta version. I think that giants as Mozilla and Opera should be awared - because design is very simple, clever and simply beautiful and outstanding. Chrome has “Incognito” tab option which doesn’t store ANY information on your computer while you’re browsing - not introduced feature before.
Of course the address bar with default search options does not replace the Awesome bar in firefox and Bookmarks organizing feature is far from perfectness - it doesn’t have tags.
Who might have thought that after the boom of Firefox 3 the next one will happen that fast.
