I didn’t know Google had come out with their first ever web browser. So to read about it was quite intriguing. The Google gian is never one to not surprise me. Sleek, fast and easy to install with ajax features, this webbrowsing baby is all that I can ask for. Take a look at the new Google Chrome. 

You can read the full announcement here.

I had a great chuckle when i read this on my favourite webware site. 

So why the mystery? Human error, it appears. According to the official Google blog, “At Google, we have a saying: ‘launch early and iterate.’ While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit ’send’ a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open-source browser…”

I honestly think that accident was no accident. If i recall even Gmail was like a hidden propaganda slowly spreading in the virtual world at one point. By allowing only invited guest to have an account. Now practically everyone is using gmail, or at least has one. 

Brownie Points: 

When I say this browser it really is fast. Furthermore, the thing with IE and Firefox (bless it’s program soul) that they are both very heavy on resources. In fact a couple of times my comp has slowed down because Firefox was lagging a bit. IE.. i have nothing else to say other than, I refuse to use IE. Google is extremely smart in creating this, even if it is at the beta-stage, there is nothing but praises right now. 

You can view more video features of Google Chrome here.

This is pretty much the Browser in action. What I love is that now all the pages i visited have been tabbed into one page. Neat and very clean. In fact according to this new entry today, Chrome is outdoing Firefox 3 and IE. That’s not bad for a browser in the prelim stages. 

The find button is also a must have for any browser now. Just click ctrl+f on your keyboard and the search for a keyword will pop down from the top panel, just under bookmarks. 

Importing bookmarks, history, and what other nots u need is a dream. It imported everything for me in a manner of seconds straight from my Firefox, all the while still retaining the favicons. Usually on Firefox i need to load the page first to get the favicon to appear, but with Chrome it all came over like as if nothing happened. Moving house was a breeze here. 

Oh and of course, because it is a google browser, your search engine is your address bar rather much like internet explorer (bleh on that) but great for the Chrome . Can you tell I’m super bias. 

The Naughty Points:

The bad thing at the moment, is that I find Chrome a tad to sensitive. Especially for my mouse when i need to scroll a page. It suddenly wooshes down, requiring me to make an effort to slow down my finger on the mouse. 

Secondly, there is no spelling correcter on Chrome, like how Firefox has the spellchecker and the thesaurus (see i could be misspelling something right now and not even notice).

Plus i would love for the bookmarks at the top bar to be just only favicons rather than it being favicon and the description. But I found a way to get rid of the description.. just right click edit on the bookmark and delete the title. Well it sorta works. 

Also the main thing that it must be able to cope with is my blogging. Right now there seems to be a few glitches, certain things I could do on Firefox like readjust my images straight away by just toggling the corners arrows are now gone on Chrome. I can do multiple uploads for images on Chrome like Firefox.. which bums me out. But the speed in itself is enough to make me smile. 

My Two Bits: 

Overall I like it! That’s all i gotta say and I’ll forgive the glitches for now because it’s still in Beta phase. My gosh I can’t believe what it’ll be like in the solid phase.