The web browser Chrome, developed by Google, has finally been released as an official stable release for Linux. Google Chrome 5.0 for Linux is described by the developers as solid, high performance, and fully-featured.
Highlights of the latest version include HTML 5 functionality, such as geolocation programming interfaces, application caching, and drag-and-drop capability. Using Google accounts, you can now copy browser preferences to other machines, so you don't have to manually customize your Chrome browser on every computer you are using.
How is Chrome different from other browsers? The first item would be speed. Like the Google search engine, Chrome has been designed for speed. This shows for example in the start-up time, which is several times shorter than that of Firefox.
Another interesting feature is the "incognito" mode, which allows you to surf the Internet without the browser tracking where you are going or what you are doing. That is, it won't save your browsing history.
Chrome tries to integrate the Internet with your PC by making it easy to add short-cuts to web sites to your desktop. Not surprisingly, web search is tightly integrated as well, so that you can alternatively enter a URL or a search phrase in the address field on the "Omnibar".
However you are not limited to using Google as search engine. By typing another common search tool, such as Yahoo or Live Search in front of your search phrase you are engaging that web service instead.
Another one of Chrome's novel features is "tab isolation". This means, if the web page in one particular tab causes trouble or crashes, it does not affect the other tabs. Furthermore, you can monitor CPU and memory usage of each tab and kill it if its requirements get out of hand. You can access the Chrome task manager through the "page" menu to the right of the search/address field. From there you would go to Developer and select Task manager.
source: http://linux.about.com/b/2010/05/26/google-chrome-5-0-for-linux.htm
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Google Chrome 5.0 For Linux
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