Google Chrome First Impressions

In this video, I give my first impressions of the fresh, new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome was developed by Google in order to improve performance of web applications. They have rewritten underlining code for javascript to improve speeds. Apple and Mozilla are also developing similar technologies as well. My first impressions are fairly positive. Some nifty features that I really liked were the Task Manager which allows you to view each tab as a process, and then view its cpu, memory, and network consumption. If you navigate to about:memory in Google Chrome, it gives you a great overview of system resources for Google Chrome AND other open browsers such as Firefox. I have run into some problems which I kind of expected from a "beta" product. For example, if you navigate to a youtube.com video and make it full screen, it will crash the flash plugin. Since Google has been sensitive to browser crashes, these type of crashes won't bring down the entire browser. Simple refreshes will bring back flash on open tabs. Neat. There are a wealth of other features that are available but these are the ones that stood out to me after half a day of light usage. Enjoy!

Category:

Science & Technology

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• browser
• google
• v8
• webkit
• tabs
• flash
• firefox
• memory
• screencast
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[chromelaptop]

Great review. It was the beggining of the Chromebook, who was going to say that at that time. Well done Google!!

[Tweetyluv2488]

I cant watch this video the man on the right scares me

[marvelfan1234567890]

when i press full screen on the video..... the screen goes 100% white can some one help me?

[Sirumakato]

@brokenToastable

troll harder.

[wheely132]

@red45935 actually, google chrome did suck when it came out, but now it is so fast and rarely crashes. i love it.

[red45935]

Chromes such a crap browser.

One big thing it cant do is read XML files off a local hard drive.

[brokenToastable]

your so fucking retarded

[JCarAlvi]

Chrome on windows is faster than explorer and friendly but ¬¬' a lot of incompatibilities then crash then doesn't works properly then reset my PC. I think Explorer 8 is slower than Chrome but solid and stable. HomeWork for google :)

[SkankinDevil89]

been using it for months now, chrome is the shit. its way faster than firefox which used to be my main web browser

[RandomDoomsday15]

if you want the google chrome address bar in firefox search for omnibar. Its the same as google chrome's bar. trust me.