Google Chrome released
Today Google released the first beta of its own browsers: Chrome. Considering the success of both Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari, the Big G’s browser will further ignite up the reborn “Browser Wars”.
According to Google, Chrome’s objective is not to be only a normal web browser, but a platform to better run Web Applications. In order to achieve that objective Google developed Chrome with strong support of JavaScript and AJAX.
One of the various changes that Chrome implements, compared to other browsers, is that each tab behaves as a separate browser with the bookmarks bar, address bar, the menus and the icons inside the tab. Also in Chrome the tabs are grouped by relation. If the user open a new tab from a link in an active page that new tab appears next to the originating page.
The address bar and the search bar are actually merged together in order to save space.
Obviously since Google Chrome is still in beta, it is has many features that are still to be implemented. For example Google Chrome lacks of an interface to manage the saved bookmarks. Chrome is also lacking a progress bar to show how much of a Web page has loaded.
At first only the Windows version is available, but Google is developing a open-source version for Linux.
Links
Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome.
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