Google Chrome - the new browser

Submitted by rizwan on Sat, 2008-09-13 22:06.

Ya, I made Google Chrome my default web browser. Here are some of my

  1. The address url where you enter your web address can also be used for searching (googling) which is cool.
  2. it looks more spacier and roomy for web sites than other browsers where half of the screen is filled with toolboxes and other craps
  3. when running videos , the cpu is less consumed compared to firefox and IE, and even when you open as many number of tabs, the memory is not much consumed whereas firefox eats most of your memory if you open too many tabs and running youtube
  4. when you start a new tab, your bookmarks and recently visited sites are saved and displayed as thumbnail images (IE 8 has this too)
  5. searching the history is available in the new tab and is very cool

Some of the

  1. Firefox is having a huge developer community and there are loads of plugins there
  2. favourite plugins like flashgot, firebug for developers will be missed
  3. from a developer point of view, it still looks barebones and since it is beta

So for me, when I need firefox i use it (especially when using firebug plugin) and i rarely use IE at all, and for simple browsing and youtube I have made chrome as my default browser


Posted in Submitted by rizwan on Sat, 2008-09-13 22:06.

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Anonymous (not verified) | Tue, 2008-10-14 19:55

The pros you mention is like describing opera browser :-) (my favourite one)

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