Ahh… another web browser is being launched. We’ve seen so many that entered the war zone and so far the incumbent IE still stands tall at 80% of the market (largely because it’s shipped pre-installed for most new PCs) followed by the pundits’ favourite son, Mozilla Firefox at close to 20% and balance of spoil shared by Opera and Safari. (It will add to > 100% because many people had more than one browser on their computer)
This one however must be given notice because it came from Google - the Internet’s undisputed giant that is trying to find ways to venture outside of search engine. Will it be successful? It’s Gmail offering is wildly popular and has now unseat Yahoo and Hotmail off the free-webmail throne. Google’s online apps however has not been anywhere successful.
I’ve downloaded and installed the beta version of Chrome after watching the impressive yet easy to understand comic style Chrome technology guide. That was the second time this week that I have enjoyed serious stuff explained using the comic medium; the first one being the recently launched Dr M’s biography.
I’ve yet to play with it but the first impression is nice. Quickly checked my favorite sites and all of them rendered properly (the close relationship with Mozilla helps I suppose).
* It launched quickly and I love the minimalist design - all the screen-space
reclaimed.
* Can’t comment much on websites’ rendering speed - our Streamyx line not
exactly a reliable indicator.. sigh.
* Arckk.. where’s the bookmark link?
* There’s the ‘Incognito Window’ for privacy browsing. That’s cool
* What about Firefox add-ons? Can’t live without them… have to watch out for the
portability news
* Got built in text area zoom in. Nice, though I don’t use it much
* Somebody commented that “Anyone bother reading the EULA? Congratulations to
our commenters commenting using Chrome. While you still own your comment,
google owns the right to use it.” Go to clause 11.1 to 11.3 of the License
Agreement - yuckk.
It looks promising but I’m not sure that I’m ready to ditch Firefox yet and make this the default browser. Please let me know what you think of this new development?
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