Google Chrome Beta Review
+ Nice interface; if one browser tab crashes, it won't take down the whole program; great support for JavaScript; Incognito Mode, Single Address/Search/History bar, new download manager
- Needs more polish; It takes somewhere around 60% of CPU when you play YouTube videos; Not too much available add-ons; |
By: Staff
Date: September 04, 2008 |
We spent time with Google's browser, and even if we consider that this is only version 0.2 of a just, the product had enough "good" already to give advice on the various parties and features. Firstly, the installation is very simple and one thing is certain: Google takes the user by the hand. Import from Firefox, for example, works very well and pushed to present exactly the same bar for personal favorites.
The first few minutes of use highlight two impressions: speed and responsiveness. Yes, Chrome is very quick to view Web pages, and developers can say thank you to WebKit, the rendering engine used in the browser and that can be found in Apple's Safari. The first visits of out SoftwareTipsPalace.com and other sites run smoothly, but it still went a few problems.
Aside from these problems which are probably a consequence of a very young age product, we note with shipping some work done by Google on the interface. The controls are forgotten and everything was obviously done to maximize the area of reading.
The address bar lets you search on Google, the tabs can be moved freely, even outside the browser to create new windows, and navigation mode allows private open a window in which all actions n ' will have no impact on history. The latter may indeed be a problem over time, because opening a tab automatically show the nine most visited sites and bookmarks added most recently.
With every web browser which you had used or you are still using, the most interesting part is extensions or add-ons. With Google Chrome it CAN be the same but you want find any available add-ons because none of them have been developed, but the good news is that Google is still working on API which will allow developers to engage in this area. Since this is freeware browser we can expect lots of great add-ons like those for Mozilla Firefox.
Similarly, when one starts using the new address bar, it will change some habits. Yes you can directly launch research, but we cannot, for example, see the list of sites visited by clicking on the small arrow that one finds on the right of the bar in other products. It will then consult the history or at least write a few letters to find a site visited, which can no longer navigate to a site in recent one or two clicks. Another change usually compared to Internet Explorer 7 / 8, Firefox and Opera: A double-click the tab bar does not open a new tab but maximizes the window.
It is clear that Google expects an avalanche of reactions and this is probably why the company has put in place in the main menu functionality "Report a bug." The window that appears automatically selects the address of the page you visit and a framework for adding descriptive text.
However, we must still know that Chrome is vulnerable under a loophole in Windows, Apple has corrected recently in Safari and allows trapping the browser from a downloaded file. As Safari indeed, Chrome will automatically download on the desktop without asking the user and then automatically performs the types of files most common.
In options, it is of course possible to indicate that you wish to be interviewed for any download, but the setting provided by the browser makes it vulnerable to the flaw so-called "carpet-bombing", authorized by the association two vulnerabilities: one in the implementation of WebKit engine, the other in Java (and presented at the last conference Black Hat). The problem probably will be corrected in a future version that will integrate then a newer version of WebKit, because the problem is already corrected.
The road is still long for Chrome, especially since his license was enough to make them think more than one. There is no doubt that Google will react very quickly on this, because the text has in the state otherwise causing a crisis of paranoia.
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