Google Chrome 0.4.154.25 Beta

Google Chrome - Editors Review:

We spent time with Google's browser, and even if we consider that this is only version 0.2 of a just, the product had enough "good" already to give advice on the various parties and features. Firstly, the installation is very simple and one thing is certain: Google takes the user by the hand. Import from Firefox, for example, works very well and pushed to present exactly the same bar for personal favorites.

The first few minutes of use highlight two impressions: speed and responsiveness. Yes, Chrome is very quick to view Web pages, and developers can say thank you to WebKit, the rendering engine used in the browser and that can be found in Apple's Safari. The first visits of out SoftwareTipsPalace.com and other sites run smoothly, but it still went a few problems.

Aside from these problems which are probably a consequence of a very young age product, we note with shipping some work done by Google on the interface. The controls are forgotten and everything was obviously done to maximize the area of reading. Read full Google Chrome Beta Review

Version reviewed: Beta

Google Chrome Publisher's description:

from Google

Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project. The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today. Google also say they’re using a “multi-process design” which they say means “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.” When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager, “placing blame where blame belongs.”rnGoogle Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar. The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. Called ’omnibox’, Google says it offers search suggestions, top pages you’ve visited, pages you didn’t visit but which are popular amd more. The omnibox (“omni” is a prefix meaning “all”, as in “omniscient” – “all-knowing”) also lets you enter e.g. “digital camera” if the title of the page you visited was “Canon Digital Camera”. Additionally, the omnibox lets you search a website of which it captured the search box; you need to type the site’s name into the address bar, like “amazon”, and then hit the tab key and enter your search keywords.

System Requirements:

PIII 750MHz, 256MB RAM, 64MB Graphic Card, active internet connection, 56kb internet connection or higher

Program Release Status: Minor Beta Update
Program Install Support: Install and Uninstall

Google Chrome Version History:

Google Chrome 0.4.154.25 Beta added on: 25-11-2008 - actual version
Google Chrome 0.4.154.23 Beta added on: 20-11-2008
Google Chrome 0.3.154.9 Beta added on: 29-10-2008
Google Chrome 0.3.154.3 Beta added on: 16-10-2008
Google Chrome 0.3.154.0 Beta added on: 02-09-2008
Google Chrome 0.3.153.9 Beta added on: 02-09-2008
Google Chrome Beta added on: 02-09-2008