After the European commission decision to force Microsoft to actively offer web users a choice of different browsers (rather than simply the implicit potential to search for, download, and install one through IE), it seems Google are having a pretty decent week as far as their browser is concerned, and with rather handy timing have just launched a new beta version with some nice new features. (Head over to Youtube for a quick demonstration of the main additions and tweaks).
While the new release is nothing major (basically some added privacy controls, added control over cookies and java plug-ins for individual sites and a neat translation service), it does come at a time when Chrome’s market share is showing continued progress at eating away at Mozilla and IE’s users (both shares of the…
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A few months ago we reviewed Google’s Chrome browser on this blog and found it a pretty high-standard product, roughly on a par with both IE and Mozilla. But we all knew that it would be nigh on impossible for any new browser to seriously rival IE on features alone, as it’s at the pre-install stage that Microsoft’s dominance is rooted. With today’s announcement from Google it seems the picture could soon look a lot different…
Having released 14 major updates in just over 100 days since Chrome’s launch, Google now feel they have an adequately stable and developed product to end the Beta testing stage. Though even now Chrome is by no means perfect, Google clearly feel it is ready to…
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Last week Google finally made their bid for a share of the web browser market with their newly launched Chrome browser, leaving web developers a little exasperated about the prospect of additional browser compatibility testing work. However, for the rest of us the question is; can Google’s latest effort really offer anything new that Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and others don’t? And if so, can it really go a step further and take users off Internet Explorer or will it simply be the preserve of a small web-savvy minority?
(N.B. the current available Chrome version is a beta one, free to download, but limited only to Windows XP and Vista users)
Starting first with the actual features of the browser, it has to be said that it doesn’t attempt to…
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