I am a sucker for new stuff. Especially cyber stuff.
I am glad there is a new browser in town. Anything to break the monopoly of Microsoft.
Personally I have been using Mozilla Firefox and I have not been having much problems with it.
I have great faith in Google products. Their google maps are fabulous. So is their Gmail and Blogger.
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The Straits Times
4 Sep 2008
Google browser shines
It shows off application's features in challenge to Microsoft's Explorer
By Alfred Siew
GOOGLE yesterday showed off a slick Web browser that promises to let users surf the Internet faster. Going by the name Chrome, it could shake up the industry as previous browser wars have done.
Google is eyeing much more: In the same way users access their e-mail on the Web now, it wants them to do their word processing and spreadsheets on a more advanced browser in future, forgoing the need to install Microsoft software.
A trial version of Chrome became available for download on Google's website, www.google.com/chrome, on Tuesday, after the company inadvertently leaked information about it days ahead of time.
In a demonstration to reporters yesterday, Google showed off Chrome's smart features. For example, its Omnibox can predict what search term or Web address the user wants based on his past surfing patterns and those of other users online.
A user looking for Amazon, the online bookstore, may need to type no more than 'Am' to bring up the link to the site.
The new browser also comes with a privacy mode that lets a user surf the Internet without leaving a trail on a computer, a feature handy for those who share computers with others at home.
With Chrome, Google is taking aim at Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the browser of choice for three-quarters of Internet users and which is pre-loaded on computers running on Windows.
The last browser war, which pitted Microsoft's Explorer against Netscape in the 1990s, left Netscape beaten.
Battle lines have been drawn now between Microsoft, which made its fortune selling software for personal computers, and Google, which wants to overturn that dominance with online alternatives.
By developing its own browser, Google says it is ensuring that its online applications - alternatives to Microsoft's Word, Excel and Powerpoint - can be run optimally in future.
To show that Chrome was faster than its rivals, Google yesterday set up a computer and compared the time it took to download two Java Web pages using Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Chrome streaked ahead, completing the download ahead of its rivals. A webpage with, say, a 3D drawing loaded several seconds faster.
In a video conference with reporters at Google's offices, director of engineering Linus Upson said he expected power users to be Chrome's early adopters.
'But they will tell their friends...and we are confident it will get into the hands of millions of people,' he said. He noted that the browser, using open-source software code, would benefit from add-ons and updates created by the online community.
The question for Google now is whether users will bite. Early adopters such as undergraduate Chin Su Yuen, 22, are already sold. Noting that the software is faster, she said: 'I have opened Facebook with 2,000 items on it, and it took a longer time to load on older browsers.'
Before Chrome, the alternatives to Internet Explorer have been Apple's Safari, Opera from Opera Software and Firefox from the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which Google helps fund.
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Star features in new browser
GOOGLE has promised that its new Chrome Web browser will be faster and smarter than its competitors, including Internet Explorer from rival Microsoft.
The company is banking on three star features to lure Internet users. They are:
# Omnibox
This is the box where you type in a website's address. It also allows you to write any term, say, Felicia Chin, and it will bring up a list of websites on the actress.
Before you even finish typing, Chrome predicts what you are after by looking up websites you visited previously, and by referencing similar searches by other Web surfers. If you have visited, say, Wikipedia.com, the box also lets you search for things on that website, without typing in its address.
# Privacy mode
If you do not want others to find out what you have been surfing, there is a new Incognito feature. It ensures that traces of your Internet session are erased the moment you exit the browser.
This means things such as virtual 'cookies', which track the items you browse on Amazon.com, for example, are not stored on the computer, so others cannot access them.
# Smart tabs
Users often surf several webpages at once on multiple tabs on their browsers. In Chrome, these tabs run on separate 'processes', so if one website takes up too much of the computer's resources or causes the software to crash, each tab can be shut down individually.
The other pages, loaded separately on other tabs, can continue running.
With current browsers, a problematic website can sometimes cause the entire browser application to freeze up.
I am glad there is a new browser in town. Anything to break the monopoly of Microsoft.
Personally I have been using Mozilla Firefox and I have not been having much problems with it.
I have great faith in Google products. Their google maps are fabulous. So is their Gmail and Blogger.
-------------------------
The Straits Times
4 Sep 2008
Google browser shines
It shows off application's features in challenge to Microsoft's Explorer
By Alfred Siew
GOOGLE yesterday showed off a slick Web browser that promises to let users surf the Internet faster. Going by the name Chrome, it could shake up the industry as previous browser wars have done.
Google is eyeing much more: In the same way users access their e-mail on the Web now, it wants them to do their word processing and spreadsheets on a more advanced browser in future, forgoing the need to install Microsoft software.
A trial version of Chrome became available for download on Google's website, www.google.com/chrome, on Tuesday, after the company inadvertently leaked information about it days ahead of time.
In a demonstration to reporters yesterday, Google showed off Chrome's smart features. For example, its Omnibox can predict what search term or Web address the user wants based on his past surfing patterns and those of other users online.
A user looking for Amazon, the online bookstore, may need to type no more than 'Am' to bring up the link to the site.
The new browser also comes with a privacy mode that lets a user surf the Internet without leaving a trail on a computer, a feature handy for those who share computers with others at home.
With Chrome, Google is taking aim at Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the browser of choice for three-quarters of Internet users and which is pre-loaded on computers running on Windows.
The last browser war, which pitted Microsoft's Explorer against Netscape in the 1990s, left Netscape beaten.
Battle lines have been drawn now between Microsoft, which made its fortune selling software for personal computers, and Google, which wants to overturn that dominance with online alternatives.
By developing its own browser, Google says it is ensuring that its online applications - alternatives to Microsoft's Word, Excel and Powerpoint - can be run optimally in future.
To show that Chrome was faster than its rivals, Google yesterday set up a computer and compared the time it took to download two Java Web pages using Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Chrome streaked ahead, completing the download ahead of its rivals. A webpage with, say, a 3D drawing loaded several seconds faster.
In a video conference with reporters at Google's offices, director of engineering Linus Upson said he expected power users to be Chrome's early adopters.
'But they will tell their friends...and we are confident it will get into the hands of millions of people,' he said. He noted that the browser, using open-source software code, would benefit from add-ons and updates created by the online community.
The question for Google now is whether users will bite. Early adopters such as undergraduate Chin Su Yuen, 22, are already sold. Noting that the software is faster, she said: 'I have opened Facebook with 2,000 items on it, and it took a longer time to load on older browsers.'
Before Chrome, the alternatives to Internet Explorer have been Apple's Safari, Opera from Opera Software and Firefox from the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which Google helps fund.
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Star features in new browser
GOOGLE has promised that its new Chrome Web browser will be faster and smarter than its competitors, including Internet Explorer from rival Microsoft.
The company is banking on three star features to lure Internet users. They are:
# Omnibox
This is the box where you type in a website's address. It also allows you to write any term, say, Felicia Chin, and it will bring up a list of websites on the actress.
Before you even finish typing, Chrome predicts what you are after by looking up websites you visited previously, and by referencing similar searches by other Web surfers. If you have visited, say, Wikipedia.com, the box also lets you search for things on that website, without typing in its address.
# Privacy mode
If you do not want others to find out what you have been surfing, there is a new Incognito feature. It ensures that traces of your Internet session are erased the moment you exit the browser.
This means things such as virtual 'cookies', which track the items you browse on Amazon.com, for example, are not stored on the computer, so others cannot access them.
# Smart tabs
Users often surf several webpages at once on multiple tabs on their browsers. In Chrome, these tabs run on separate 'processes', so if one website takes up too much of the computer's resources or causes the software to crash, each tab can be shut down individually.
The other pages, loaded separately on other tabs, can continue running.
With current browsers, a problematic website can sometimes cause the entire browser application to freeze up.
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