As you heard or read a million times already Google has developed it’s own browser dubbed “Google Chrome“. Everyone seems to think this is the best thing since slice bread but it isn’t by far. It looks decent with its simple design and UI and was pretty fast when I tried it, but of course its only a beta version and the first one at that. Unless they plan to just continue to call it Beta like Gmail for the next 4 years. I still don’t see anything to go crazy over. It is built with webkit and it does add it’s own browser efficiency with how each tab uses their own sources, but it borrows from every browser that is already out. It takes Opera’s Speed Dial feature, address bar beneath tabs instead of above and from what I noticed Opera controls each tab slightly similar with it’s edit site preference pane. Then you will notice it also includes the so called “Awesome bar” used by Firefox and Opera, which gives the user the ability to type a simple phrase in the address bar to get to an old website without going through their history.
I just don’t get the hype! I personally fear that google will track it’s browser users and dish out the info to their advertising partners because obviously they want you to stay online longer to make money off you. It’s understandable, but way too much power for one company. Also, do you really think people are going to stop using Internet Explorer ? As much as I hate the thing I highly doubt people will stop using it. The average person is lazy and automatically uses what’s available to them, which in most cases is IE. My generation is getting smarter, but its the older folks who are just using what they have been for the last 10 years.
Google I am also hearing way too many complaints about your browser crashing and etc, which you said it wouldn’t so get it together. If you guys and I mean every huge web company want to make the web a better place and competitve how about you improve your browser standards. Internet Explorer has always been on their own thing for so long they don’t care what users want nor care what the general public think. They have this dumb ass feature in Internet Explorer 8 that is basically a standards mode. A standards mode? why the hell would you give a user a choice? If we are to improve the web all the neccesary web standards should be the default of the browser and thats it. You see if all of these web browsers supported these standard functions and etc then it will make the playing feild even for all companies and browsers.
No one should have to be subjected to seeing messages stating ” WE DO NOT SUPPORT YOUR BROWSER DOWNLOAD THIS”. And not only do the web browser companies have to improve on this it also falls on web developers, designers, web content publishers and so forth.
