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About Google Chrome Browser-Review by Abhishek Khanna (Mechanical 2007)

Chronicle Editor @ Sep 17, 2008

(This informative review about recently launched Google browser ‘Chrome’ is provided by Abhishek Khanna, Mechanical 2007. He is part of volunteer team for maintaining our website, www.itbhuglobal.org. Abhishek can be contacted at: abhishek@alumni.itbhu.ac.in)
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Google enters the browser war
Google Inc. has launched its own Web browser Chrome on September 2. Like other services of Google it has also got a great reception according to Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt. Several million downloads were reported in the first week.
The browser is aimed at competing with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. The browser wars are on as Microsoft launched IE8 and Mozilla on the other hand launched Firefox 3.0. Chrome was essential for Google to prevent itself from any kind of loss in traffic due to change in default settings of IE and Firefox.

Google and Firefox partnership

Till now Google was supporting Mozilla for its Firefox. Mozilla earns from the advertising partnership with Google and is the second largest used browser with a market share of over 10%. In spite of the good partnership, Mozilla's independent nature was a threat for Google in terms of its search market share as Firefox has default search engine as Google. Mozilla Corp. had made clear in the past about breaking this partnership if it hampers its independence.

Features of Chrome

Traditional tabs of Firefox and IE have been replaced by tab buttons on the top of the window.
Users get to see thumbnails of 9 most visited Web pages
It comes with a privacy mode window, any activity done in that is not logged in the computer
'Omnibox' is the new name of the address bar of Chrome, it is an auto complete kind of box which also provides suggestions from Google
Chrome regularly keeps downloading list of suspected harmful sites
Each application has its own window and memory, therefore it will prevent crashing of whole browser due to one application
It has V8 for faster loading of java scripts

The browser is available for download at www.google.com/chrome.

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Additional links

1) Despite Chrome, Google continues to feed Mozilla - but for how long?

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39140/135/

2) Independent Mozilla

http://infotech.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/3436724.cms

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