Google Browser, Google Chrome
Sep 3rd, 2008 by dipankar
Today i found a new message at my home page, google.com, that Google release a open source browser, Google Chrome. It is in BETA version. I downloaded and install to my PC. And it works superb, with a simple design and a nice blue theme. Google Chrome is clean and fast.
If you are familiar with firefox, you find that Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar.
It keeps each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. It has a built in JavaScript engine, V8, which is more powerful, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.
The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. Called ’omnibox’, Google says it offers search suggestions, top pages you’ve visited, pages you didn’t visit but which are popular amd more. The omnibox (“omni” is a prefix meaning “all”, as in “omniscient” – “all-knowing”) also lets you enter e.g. “digital camera” if the title of the page you visited was “Canon Digital Camera”. Additionally, the omnibox lets you search a website of which it captured the search box; you need to type the site’s name into the address bar, like “amazon”, and then hit the tab key and enter your search keywords.
As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera. On that page you will see your most visited webpages as 9 screenshot thumbnails. To the side, you will also see a couple of your recent searches and your recently bookmarked pages, as well as recently closed tabs.
Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar. Mozilla has a project called Prism that aims to do similar (though doing so may train users into accepting non-URL windows as safe or into ignoring the URL, which could increase the effectiveness of phishing attacks).
But the Google Chrome is only for browsing, if you are viewing the source the page and willing to save the source code, you will not find the option to save. Since, this is BETA version, may be Google will solve this issues in their next version.
Cheers Google..