Sitting on Google Chrome – Google’s answer to the web browser

First there was Netscape, then came IE, then Opera, Safari and Firefox. All of these web browsers do the same thing; that is bring the world wide web to your computer. Some of these browsers have features that are exclusive and some are highly customizable. Like Coke and Pepsi, FedEx and UPS and the Yankees and the Red Sox, a free market society makes choice inevitable. Enter Google Chrome, their interpenetration of the web browser.

After using mostly Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer (when absolutely necessary), I am highly skeptical of Chrome. These days, I mostly use a Mac to get things done and I only use Windows Media Center on my Vista Premium PC. Do we REALLY need another web browser? Like most citizens of INTERNET, curiousity got a hold of me and I downloaded the beta two days ago. While I like the clean, simple interface, I miss all of the add-ons that make Firefox so great. Tabbed browsing? Opera did it and every other browser thereafter. “Porn Mode” ? (Google calls it “Incogito Mode” and claims it can be used to hid “suprises” and “gifts”. Yeah, sure, you’re going to be making a lot of “gifts”.) Firefox and Safari and IE8 have it.

For now, I’m sticking to the Fox. It claims to be secure, but a look at the terms of service states they can use your browsing history in pretty much whatever way they want. I guess the only major advantage I can see is that each tab that you run is actually a seprate process. This means that if the offending site somehow is unresponsive, it won’t bring the browser crashing down in flames like the Hindenburg. Oh yeah, a Mac version is not out…yet. Apparently, it’s a month away from release. I don’t think you are really going to get an advantage from Chrome for the time being. Well, at least the release of the new browser brought us luzly photoshops of the comic that explains all the tech behind it.