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Initial Thoughts About Google New Web Browser

Posted by Chris
On September 04, 2008
Categories: Featured, Software, Web

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Google Chrome web browser icon Google have released their web browser software as a Beta to get an early opinion from users. As soon as the news was announced I sighed while thinking that there is yet another web browser to test. Does the world need another browser? If it means that there are less Internet Explorer users then yes. However, Chrome is based on the WebKit so if your site works in Apple Safari everything will be fine — webmasters should be glad of that at least.

Google promises that their new web browser will be different from the others, with a simple user interface and improved navigation and search. At last there is a browser that combines the address and search boxes that not only searches and lists results from Google but from your history too.

The use of tabs looks to be fairly familiar. Users are able to reorder them and drag them out to make new windows and vice versa, much like Safari. What seems to be a unique feature is that each webpage (tabbed or otherwise) is a separate process, rather than the whole application being one process. This means that if a website in one tab fails or hangs the other windows and tabs are unaffected. This separation is similar to the Fluid application which allows Mac users to create a separate application for website applications such as Google’s GMail or Facebook and so on.

Why Google developed a web browser?

Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

[From Google Chrome]

At the moment Google Chrome is only available for Windows users but there are Mac and Linux versions in the pipeline. In the meantime those of you who use Windows can download Google Chrome and enjoy this promising piece of software.

Changing the future of web applications.

Could Google raise the competition between browser developers again? It is certainly looking that way which may prove to be a kick in the teeth for Firefox which has taken a number of years to become popular enough to put a slight dent in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer user figures.

I predict that Chrome will become the ‘must have’ web browser as more of us use more web-based applications whether they be social networking apps or the increasingly popular office tools such as word processors, spreadsheets and calendar software.

If Chrome is as stable and efficient as Google promise then there is sure to be a surge of new web applications that one day will perhaps make locally stored applications redundant. Hopefully the emphasis will be on quality applications that emulate the software that is available on our computers. There are a number of online application developer already out there doing this. Google is one such website offering many applications and the lesser known Aviary is another.

Whereas Google has office type tools, Aviary has web applications for the creatives of the world. Currently invite only, Aviary features tools for image editing, vector design, audio and video editing and many more. Aviary is truly incredible and unlike anything else that is currently available.

In conclusion Google’s new web browser could be the ‘next big thing’ and might change the way that the majority ~~utilize~~ utilise the Internet and the world wide web.

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