After just 100 days, Google has lifted the veil of betaness off its web browser, Chrome, by releasing version 1.0. When Chrome made its first public appearance earlier this year, it was met with positive reveiws due to its JavaScript performance, as well as its robust multithreaded model. Now that the beta label has been ripped off Chrome, Google can't hide itself anymore: Chrome will now have to take Firefox and Internet Explorer head-on.
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Member since:2005-06-30
I used Chrome almost exclusively for a month. It has, without a doubt, the cleanest interface for a web browser that I've seen (at least since the days when I could customize the Mozilla suite to my liking), and the ability to run websites as an "application" with an even tidier interface is a novel approach.
I ended up switching back to Opera for the time being because Chrome had a nasty problem of freezing up for a few seconds when it was loading flash apps. Not really noticable until you have a lot of Youtube tabs open, then the browser would slow to a crawl. Opera also has the benefit of storing my information on a remote server, which is nice because I have access to the same bookmarks and speed dial here at the university as I have at my apartment.
Still, kudos to the Google team. For awhile I wondered if this was going to be another "perpetual beta" projects that never saw completion. Hopefully by now the Flash problem has been fixed, since Youtube is a huge asset of Google. More choice makes all of the browsers better in the long run.
Member since:2005-11-21
I ended up switching back to Opera for the time being because Chrome had a nasty problem of freezing up for a few seconds when it was loading flash apps. Not really noticable until you have a lot of Youtube tabs open, then the browser would slow to a crawl. Opera also has the benefit of storing my information on a remote server, which is nice because I have access to the same bookmarks and speed dial here at the university as I have at my apartment.
Still, kudos to the Google team. For awhile I wondered if this was going to be another "perpetual beta" projects that never saw completion. Hopefully by now the Flash problem has been fixed, since Youtube is a huge asset of Google. More choice makes all of the browsers better in the long run.
You must live in Windows. Safari has the most clean/minimalistic UI of them all. But then again you can use Safari, albeit disjointed on Windows.
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2006-02-05
Best browser out there by a long shot. I have been waiting for chrome (a slick browser with webkit rendering) for a few years now, and haven't used firefox as anything but a container for firebug since chrome came out.