Top 10 reasons to try Google Chrome
As technology matures, it always yields better results. Proceeding on similar lines, since the featured web browser from Google, Chrome is still currently in beta form.
You’ll find precious little news on just why Google believes the technology incorporated in Chrome is advancement on the existing web browsers, notably Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla’s Firefox!
There are lot many reasons that may be listed out but here are my Top 10 Reasons to try Google Chrome includes:
- Open source
- Crash control
- One box for everything and SSB’s
- New Tab page & Dynamic tabs
- Application shortcuts; Omnibox
- Safe browsing mode; Incognito
- Instant bookmarks & Simpler downloads
- Importing settings options and smart Pop up blocking
- Rendering engine
- Blacklists
I know it sounds strange, and Firefox is open source too, but as a matter of fact, Internet Explorer isn’t! If you don’t know why open source can be a good thing, then you’d better read this…
Every tab the user opens, runs independently in the browser, consequently if any application crashes it doesn’t take anything else down with it.
So it can be considered to be highly stable, on the other hand I have personally experienced Firefox crashing totally many a times, which is quite annoying!
Chrome allows creation of Site Specific Browsers, which are basically created from the main Chrome browser to allow users to quickly access a single site.
These are the stripped down versions of the main browser. Moreover Chrome incorporates Web search, dedicated Address bar providing suggestions as you type and Web history.
“One unified box serves all your browsing needs,” says Google, and that does make sense.
Every time you open a new tab, you can find a visual sampling of the most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages as well as closed tabs. Pretty cool… ain’t it?
What has Google got to say on this-?
“You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs as you wish – quickly and easily”, Google says.
With Google Chrome you can use web applications without opening your browser as application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps.
All Webapps can be launched in their own streamlined window without the Omnibox URL box and browser toolbar. The Omnibox is the URL box at the top of each tab, similar to Opera, which includes auto-complete functionality but auto-completes only URLs that were manually entered.
Chrome includes an Incognito mode, which is similar to Safari’s Private Browsing and Internet Explorer 8’s InPrivate! Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.
If you wanna’ bookmark a web page, you can simply click on the star icon at the left edge of the address bar and that’s it you are done ?
What’s more there’s no intrusive download manager; you can see your download’s status at the bottom of your current window, which feels lot more convenient.
When you switch to Google Chrome, you need not lose all your private data and you can happily start from the same point where you left off with all the bookmarks and passwords duly restored from your existing browser.
Moreover the Popup windows are scoped to the tab they came from, meaning that they will not appear outside the tab unless the user explicitly drags them out!
Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine on advice from the Android team, which is an interesting thing to watch out for… Only time can tell what difference can this really make, in helping Chrome scoring over the other browsers…
Chrome periodically downloads updates of two blacklists, first one being meant for phishing and other for malware, and warns users when they attempt to visit a harmful site.
This service is also made available for use by others via a free public API called “Google Safe Browsing API“, which resembles the Internet Explorer 8’s functionality as well!
Google Chrome also has many more new advanced fabulous features such as gears, Sandboxing, cool Plugins, high Speed, support to all JavaScripts, high Stability, Multiprocessing abilities, efficient Task Manager and many more, which add developer features that could probably become web standards, typically relating to the building of web applications that even includes offline support too!
There’s lot more associated with Chrome than you can guess… so just be on the hunt to discover more!
