Saturday, June 6, 2009

Chrome - My favourite browser these days

I am using Google Chrome a lot these days (apart from using Firefox & IE) for my browsing and testing needs. Chrome is amazingly fast and quick. Features that make Chrome distinguish itself from other browsers like Opera, Safari, IE, Firefox etc. are simple but truly amazing.

First, every tab is an independed process. Each tab is on its own - if one tab crashes there will be no impact on other tabs. This is very useful feature. Chrome has revolutionary JavaScript engine, which is made to work even faster than in the fastest browsers. Here are the speed test results http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html

Another feature I like about Chrome is its built-in task manager where you can see what tab eats more memory or CPU time than others, and effectively manage your tabs to reduce unneeded memory or CPU usage.

Here are few links casting comparison between Chrome and other browsers


Oh did i forgot to mention a very cool feature - visual sampling of most visited sites, search engines, recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs on its home page.

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