Google Chrome (Beta) Review

Google Chrome (Beta) is a very good browser with some bugs that are probably caused by the beta stage.

At first I went to Google Chrome’s homepage and downloaded Chrome. After installing the program, which took approx. two minutes, it offered me to import my

bookmarks & web history from Firefox. It took another minute to import the data.

After the browser had opened itself, I went to Techgossip.net and got an unpleasant surprise. It showed me plain text - no images, only text. I reported it to Google. Soon I found out that embedded videos from Youtube don’t work either. I reported that too.

Surfing the web is very comfortable as the address bar is also the search box, it shows you the previews of the nine most used/favorite websites like Opera (Opera only shows favorite

websites) and there is the Icognito surfing options that don’t save any data (cookies, web history) except bookmarks. This can be used on public computers etc.

The guys at Google know a browser shouldn’t waste much screen space and should show as much of the web page as it can. They have made the statusbar appear only when you’re loading a page, instead of a menubar, there is a dropdown menu at the end of the adress box and the bookmarks toolbar only appears when you open a new tab (can be changed).

Memory usage is another thing that it’s good at as it takes less memory than Firefox (and presumably Opera) so it will run better on older computers.

Memory usage:

Google Chrome 47,308k

Mozilla Firefox 69,344k

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