{"id":109,"date":"2008-09-08T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/09\/08\/googles-new-browser-chrome\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:03:52","slug":"googles-new-browser-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/2008\/09\/08\/googles-new-browser-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s New Browser: Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Google continued its march in Internet domination by releasing its very own Web browser, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Chrome<\/a>. I downloaded it the day it came out and have been really impressed. It&#8217;s incredibly fast, not cluttered with unnecessary features, and has some great under-the-hood performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chrome.jpg\" alt=\"Google Chrome\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long been a huge fan of Firefox and it will likely continue to be my primary browser, but already I&#8217;ve caught myself with both browsers open since Chrome is just so fast.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/intl\/en\/features.html\">Chrome features<\/a> include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speed, speed, speed &#8212; it&#8217;s incredibly fast (both app launching and Web browsing) and TechCrunch has also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/09\/02\/giving-google-chrome-a-spin-this-thing-moves-fast\/\">raved\u00a0 about it <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Optimized speed of using Google apps like Gmail, Docs, etc. (who knows their apps better than Google itself?)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The home tab, which shows your most-visited sites<\/li>\n<li>The single-search toolbar (type in your searches and URLs in the same field)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlebooks\/chrome\/index.html#size=big&amp;page=4\">separate-process tabs<\/a> (this is a huge deal since if one site\/tab crashes, it does so in isolation vs. locking up your entire browser, as Firefox and Internet Explorer do)<\/li>\n<li>The ability to drag a tab outside the primary browser and drop it anywhere on your screen (too cool!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also really like the easy-to-understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlebooks\/chrome\/index.html\">comic book<\/a> that Google launched with Chrome to explain the underlying technology (as a support professional, I especially appreciate this unique approach to documentation):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlebooks\/chrome\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/snag-1659.png\" alt=\"Google Chrome Comic\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Chrome offered support for the following, using it as my primary browser would be even more compelling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/02\/03\/use-roboform-to-manage-your-passwords-more\/\">RoboForm<\/a> (not really a Google problem, but one that hopefully RoboForm can solve)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/02\/02\/use-foxmarks-to-synch-your-firefox-bookmarks\/\">Foxmarks<\/a> (sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foxmarks.com\/?p=165\">support is on the way<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was some <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5044871\/google-chrome-eula-claims-ownership-of-everything-you-create-on-chrome-from-blog-posts-to-emails\">early controversy<\/a> about a sentence in the EULA that suggested Google was going to claim the right to use any content you produced in Chrome (email, blog entries, etc.), but Google was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/google-chrome-license-agreement\/\">quick to respond<\/a> to the outcry and updated its terms.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us spend so much of our time using Internet applications that it makes sense to rethink the browser as its own operating system &#8212; exactly what Google is doing, of course, and taking aim at Microsoft and Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome is currently only available for Windows Vista and XP SP2, but there will likely be a Mac version before too long (and no doubt a mobile version for your cell phone).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a helpful tip on <a href=\"http:\/\/fich.web.id\/2008\/09\/06\/how-to-integrate-internet-download-manager-into-google-chrome\/\">how to integrate Internet Download Manager for use with Chrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Google continued its march in Internet domination by releasing its very own Web browser, Chrome. I downloaded it the day it came out and have been really impressed. It&#8217;s incredibly fast, not cluttered with unnecessary features, and has some great under-the-hood performance. I&#8217;ve long been a huge fan of Firefox and it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser-tips","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}