About midnight today, Google launched their new browser Google Chrome in beta. It’s not available for Mac or Linux yet. My husband uses a Windows desktop and downloaded it today, and he thinks he’s in love. Here’s a video about some of Chrome’s features:
I love Firefox. I love it very much. But if Google does for browsing what it did for search, I may be tempted to at least try it. I’m pretty faithful to my pet technologies, but I’ve ditched Movable Type for WordPress and Netscape Navigator for Internet Explorer, and Internet Explorer for Firefox. I’ll be interested to see how Firefox addresses this new competition.
It will have a task manager so users can track memory usage.
The default homepage is a “speed dial” type feature with thumbnails of the most frequently visited Web pages.
I’m not sure I like the idea of tabs on the top instead of under the address bar, but that’s just because I’m used to Firefox. And I love Firefox; I’m not sure I’d switch for these kinds of services, though Firefox can be a memory hog — it’s noticeable on the four-year-old desktop our family shares, but not on my new Mac or school computer. Then again, I really related to this cartoon from XKCD:
