A few first impressions, Chrome on a Vista machine.
The Incognito window is interesting, although businesses may not take to employees surfing without leaving a browsing history.
The UI is clean and compact. This beta does not give the option to set a master password to hide passwords from other users.
Opening a tab shows the nine most recently opened tabs and on the right-hand side, “Recent bookmarks” and “Recently closed tabs”.
As this is Google I’d expect contextual sponsored search items may be placed on the page at some point.
Chrome uses a “powerful engine” built for handling Javascript, named ‘V8′, which sandboxes the code running in each tab and prevents one tab from crashing another. Each tab opens a page that is self contained.
Installed on Vista, Chrome is a whopping 46.5 MB.
In contrast, my Firefox is 23.7 MB and Opera-5.61 MB.
Google’s Comic book. Chrome Download
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Cecilia 09.03.08 at 2:37 am
What is your opinion about the EULA?
http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks
certifiedbug 09.03.08 at 8:40 am
Hi Cecilia,
I will stick with my regular browser?
Seriously, I am still reading articles and comments about the license myself.
There appears to be a real debate on whether the terms of the EULA for Google’s ‘Services’ includes the browser.
certifiedbug 09.04.08 at 12:16 am
An update at CNet.
Google backtracks on Chrome license terms