Publisher's Review:
Google Chrome 2.0 is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Google Chrome beta is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source software including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren't web pages but web applications. Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface.
Google's New Web-Browser Chrome has a very cool list of secret commands that share the users data with them selves, displaying how the browser, page, or other data currently is..
Here they are:
* about:memory
* about:stats
* about:network
* about:internets
* about:histograms
* about:dns
* about:cache
* about:plugins
* about:version
you can also go to two special pages on a per-site basis.view-cache:[URL] shows you some under-the-hood cache details, and view-cache:[URL] shows you the page's markup.
From our blog (07.09.2008):
After 3 days of testing, I feel free to come out with the first impressions of Google Chrome browser, browser imagined to be IE/Firefox/Opera killer.
Google Chrome in its early beta stage (0.29) seems like fairly good browser. It is rather fast (seems equivalent to Firefox, even faster on some pages) with some interesting features. I won't bother with counting all the features, will just mention some facts. First of all, which is in my opinion not a surprise, address bas operates as Google search - you just type a phrase on address bar and Chrome acts as Google web search. Tabbed browsing is an option all browsers now have but interesting to mention is browsing in "incognito" mode, browsing without caching any files on your PC. New tab option shows window with most visited sites (incognito browsed sites not included!) and most recently bookmarked sites.
There are lots of discussions on the Internet about Google Chromes' EULA and possible privacy thefts but IMO, things are a bit overreacted.
New bug-fixed version of Google Chrome, released after 3 days, gives us right to believe that Google really decided to act fast and serious with their browser and that they really do mean to grab serious percentage of browser industry.
