Google Chrome(an open source browser as they say!) was launched officially on 2nd September.It is in beta version currently.When I first heard about it,It was some twitter friend ,who wrote about it.Finally I went to http://tools.google.com/chrome/ and downloaded it.The installation was a breeze ,it took just 1 minute to download and install(I am using 1 Mbps connection).

It has inbuilt facilities for importing my firefox bookmarks,history,passwords etc.Ahh..I am waiting to see the first site of this Google browser.Thank God,It started now.Wow,what a clean interface.It is so impressively thin,I am really starting loving it from the first start up only.

have a look how it looks like

Google Chrome

Good, so Google is really concerned about it.It seems the world is turning to blue again[:D],It’s fist browser,which has such a sleek look(though I am a fan of firefox,for its large number of extensions and developers support).

Some Features of Chrome

• It is visually pleasing,something your eye will love to browse with
• It has incognito mode(.Do you know what incognito mode is,well I am posting an image for details),In incognito mode it does not remember browsing history and cookies etc.
• It Is based on WebKit rendering engine,the same engine being used by safari 3.X
• It uses v8 javascript engine(also by google),one of the fastest javascript engine
• It is made from scratch ,keeping in mind the current web architecture,so hopefully it will perform better
• It uses the location bar for searching and url both, you can type something in the location bar and press enter to search it on google.

Here are some of the screenshot,to show some of the features of this browser

Incognito Mode

Incognito mode

Home page,It contains most visited,recently browsed,bookmarked sites,good..that’s really good idea,a little bit inspired from opera(speed dial)

Home Page

Here is how the history page looks(very nicely done!)

History Page

The customizations are quiet easy and pretty straight forward.first times,it seems I am working some something really cool!.

Btw,There are some disadvantages too

1. It forks a new process for each tab,so if you have 6 tabs open you will see 7 or more chrome.exe running.
   

   Multiple instances of chrome.exe

You see the four chrome.exe running,while I had only 3 tabs open at that time.

2.It’s more memory intensive(at least as I see on my system)

But still overall,I liked the way it’s looking and working(seems to be fast )

to download Google Chrome browser ,use the following link http://tools.google.com/chrome/

As a web developer the life is not that much easy.The daily quirks of various browsers makes the life too difficult.Above all ,we need to maintain the web standards and compatibility in the browsers at the same time.

Another Issue ,after all,how many browsers I should keep on my system.For me,I like to keep at least the following-IE,Fire Fox,Safari,Opera,Netscape,and Flock.IE has always been an inspiration for my life(:D ,Without ,IE I would never know,what’s the harshness of life and the bitter realities of life).

Ok,Let us leave that and go ahead.Have you ever wondered ,how to test the website/design you have recently coded into the browsers which are not on your system.I don’t know about you but I have been wondering for this.

Some times,Checking in Different Versions of same software (Like testing on Fire Fox 2.x and 3.x on same system) is quiet difficult.

So here is a website which provides the option to test your websites online.The only one restriction is ,It must be hosted some where on the web.

Check

http://browsershots.org/