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Ever since last week, I’ve seen this sentence looming around the Internet. At first, I thought it was a pun for an old April Fool’s joke that I’ve never heard of. (I’m obviously a fan of Google’s April 1st webpages — remember Google Gulp?) After reading some articles, I learned that Google Chrome is actually a real web browser, and it’s initially available as a beta software for Windows. As an OS X Leopard user, I kinda held back because there’s no Mac version, until I saw a couple more good reviews. And so I restarted my computer and booted to Windows, just to try it out.
For a beta software such as this, it works well, honestly. Wait, so that’s why they say it “shines for them!”
It’s been my default browser for Windows, and it’s like a new experience all over again. Most visited webpages (just like Opera’s, except more practical for me), Gears integrated (great for doing WordPress posts and pages while your Internet connection craps out on you), Incognito windows, and more things that you would likely see in other browsers are in here.
It’s fast too. I’m not going all scientific here, but it definitely feels faster than the Firefox I have in OS X. Even if Chrome has its tabs as separate processes, and that would probably mean more required memory, it’s still smooth as silk. Maybe it’s because of their new Javascript engine — yes, I’m a sucker for Web 2.0 apps.
Okay, so if you are open to other perspectives of web browser religion, or if you’re just curious, then give it a try.
Oh, some fun facts:
- For some reason, it always crashes when I opt to shutdown while Chrome is open. No biggie, though; you can just ignore it.
- There are fun “about” pages in Chrome. Try about:internets and admire the view.
- There was a controversy concerning the EULA of Chrome. A part of that agreement says that they will own everything that you create using that browser — blog posts, forum replies, documents, everything. Fortunately, they’ve fixed that part hours after the discovery.
Comments (3)
Mallory • September 13th, 2008 at 6:52 am
I downloaded Chrome right away myself, but … Well, I was instantly bored. XD; It’s so bleak looking, yet it works perfectly, so there’s really nothing interesting about it! ((To me.))
Oh, wait, there is one negative aspect — I hate the lack of an address bar. o_O; I don’t know why in the world they thought it’d be more innovative without one. guess it’s better for n00bs who don’t use it at all, but otherwise … XD;
JMacalinao • September 14th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Wait, lack of an address bar? I thought the white top part where you put in the URL was the address bar. XP
Mallory • September 17th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Whoa! WTF, you’re right — I wonder if it didn’t load fully, the first time I used the browser …? I swear that wasn’t there the first time I checked it out! O_O; Weird~