I woke up today and opened cyriac.me thinking about what to write today. Yesterday I sat in front of this computer for long hours trying to install Google’s new browser Chrome. I was checking this link and download google chrome in between all these time and it’s not available yet. They said Google Chrome will be launched on Sep 2nd, but I was tired of waiting for it.

So today when I woke up, first thing I did was, check this link. Whoila it was available to download. But still I couldn’t initiate the download. But when I tried in Internet Explorer, everything was easy as a pie. I was so excited to have it installed, because since I was not able to install Google Chrome yesterday, I read a comic made by Google Chrome Team.

Google Chrome is completely revolutionary software. Its not like firefox or internet explorer. What they did is revolutionize the way browsers work. In simple words firefox and all others work as a single process, but in Google Chrome, every tab is a separate process. What this means is improved memory usage and speed. This is something like what is done in an operating system (whoa !!!). With the new and redefined core process of Google Chrome every element (javascript, html rendering and so on) are on separate threads, so they work fast and they will never hang. 

Most beautiful thing is if one of the tab happens to hang, in our usual internet explorer or firefox if this happens, the whole browser hangs and ceases to work. But in Google Chrome you won’t lose everything but only that tab, and what you get is a :( smiley, when you open that page, how cool is that huh ? You can even close each tab from the task manager of the OS (by tapping ctrl+alt+del).

Another thing worth mentioning is safety and security, I don’t know much details but in the comic it says it saves you from malware and phishing like no other. It won’t allow any pop-ups, it will just minimize them to the corresponding tab, and the user have to click it if interested.

But I didn’t like one thing; currently we don’t have Google Toolbar for Google Chrome. But that’s not a necessary, cause there are alternatives for it. But problem is when you want pagerank and alexa toolbars. Also there might be a delay while new plugins are made for Google Chrome.

What I am gonna do is, use chrome for usual browsing and keep firefox as a backup. Actually while writing this I couldn’t download a driver through chrome, but when I simply tried the same link on Firefox, driver came smoothly. So I will definitely keep Firefox.

For those who say Chrome is just a copy of Firefox, here is what Chrome Team says,

If you don’t look at the looks of the browser but enjoy what’s behind it, you will definitely love Chrome.

If you want to try Google Chrome I have uploaded an offline installer. Download Google Chrome (Offline Installer) and use it, and post your reviews and thoughts in the comments section.

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