Google Chrome Revisited

Ok, so I’ve been using Chrome for quite sometime now and it’s time for me to jot down my negative feedbacks regarding this browser. Although I have grown fond of using this browser because of its simplicity, there are still other features that have disappointed me. Well, it is still BETA so I hope they will make changes with them soon. And … I hope it won’t be forever called BETA just so it will be used as an excuse for some of its deficiencies.

1) Obvious fact that there is no plugin support for now, it would have been nice to have the same plugin that Firefox has that disables all Flash embedded unless you click to enable and view them. This saves loading time which is a serious problem… Continue reading

Google Chrome Out

Oh man! As if 2 browsers waging against each other isn’t enough, we have another one on board the browser wars. Google Chrome is finally out, Google’s very own internet browser. What’s nice about this browser is it maximizes your whole screen and does away with those useless icons and stuffs. What I really need visible in a browser is the menu bar, the address bar and the status bar. The browser does look weird with its UI interface because you don’t see a menu bar here. The menu items that you see in the other browsers are all clamped down in the 2 icons on the upper right side of the browser, just beside the… Continue reading

Google set to introduce its own Web browser

Wow I didn’t see this one coming. From the Reuturs website, “Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich applications, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics”. It’s going to be called Google Chrome and Google had officially confirmed this. One of its new features is a Javascript Virtual Machine called v8 which was created for the purpose of speeding up Javascript code. Considering that lots of websites (and especially Google) are heavily using AJAX (they are a great help by the way), this would be put to good use.

This new browser’s address bar comes with auto-completion features known as “omnibox”. It was said that… Continue reading