Getting the Most out of Google Chrome: Website Builders Daily Digest
June 11, 2009 by Clyde Dennis
Filed under Building Websites
Google Chrome is the name of Google’s very own home grown browser recently released for public use. With it the mighty G appears to be hoping to revolutionize the experiences of web surfers by putting them in control.
Early returns suggest Chrome is the best in terms of speed. It is certainly a very well designed application capable of handling most anything it’s user may encounter. If I had to guess where the browser might run into problems it would be because we haven’t yet seen it run across all the wild and different hardware computer users are running all over the world.
As you know each weekday I post a daily digest of the best articles I’ve found that day on a topic that is of particular interest to website builders, buyers and sellers.
Here are the links to today’s best articles on getting the most out of Google Chrome:
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Download Google Chrome for Windows/Vista
The five best new browser features in Google Chrome
TechRepublic has started kicking the tires on Google Chrome, the search giant’s entrance into the Web browser market. See our gallery of screen shots and our list of the five best new features that Chrome offers.
Google Chrome: Steal this browser
First of all, Chrome is a new browser but not a new rendering engine. What’s the difference? A rendering engine just draws words and graphics to a rectangle on the screen. A web browser is all the stuff around that rectangle including menus, tabs, favorites, searching, and so forth. Rendering engines are hard, quirky, and tedious, so for Chrome Google picked the WebKit engine used by Safari, Adobe AIR, iPhone, and Android instead of writing their own.
Browser of the Week: Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a no-brainer for Browser of the Week, and I’ve gone ahead and installed it, configuring it as my default browser. The one hitch is that it only runs on Windows, and I am a Mac-only shop. I do have Parallels running on my Mac Pro, so I’m accessing Chrome in a VM on a remote machine via Remote Desktop Connection from my Air. This isn’t likely to reflect very well on the software’s performance, but that’s just Google’s bad.
Getting More Out of Google Chrome
The Google Operating System blog has done a nice collection of tips on Chrome, ranging from how to undo a closed tab to how to monitor the resources being used by any given web page. Find their general tips here. Did you know you can do calculations like the one at left right from the address bar?
Google Chrome is insanely fast … faster than Firefox 3.0
Google Chrome certainly has delivered on the speed it promised, and so far testing indicates that the browser is very robust – over the past few hours I’ve been hammering it very hard and I’ve yet to have a crash.
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Google Chrome is a wonderful browser with a simple and clean user interface. It is quite different form IE 8 and FireFox 3. Based on the features of Google Chrome, can it win the browser war in 2009?
One of the best thing which i feel good in google chrome is Google Chrome automatically saves a list of the search engines you’ve encountered while browsing the Internet.
I’ll wait till next version of firefox comes out. I don’t trust google chrome privacy information settings.
Google chrome is a great browser. I’m not sure at what point of market share when I should start to worry about optimizing my designs to be compatible for not only firefox and IE but also chrome.
At first, I thought Firefox was the best until I tried Chrome. I like it now.