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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
- Date added: December 14, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,238,937
- Downloads last week: 26,187
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1042 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on October 16, 2009
Chrome is Google's attempt to make the Web browser disappear and to focus on the applications and pages users are viewing, rather than on the border with its tools. Some of Chrome's basic underpinnings are quite novel, but people will recognize other features as they exist in other, open-source Web browsers on the market today.
Chrome is blazingly fast and is easily the quickest browser available. Based on Webkit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google's Android mobile platform, and several other Web-browsing tools, Chrome's interface is a drastic departure from other browsers. Instead of the traditional toolbar, Chrome puts its tabs on top. Moreover, the tabs are detachable: "tabs" and "windows" are interchangeable here. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser, and tabs can be rearranged at any time. By isolating each tab's processes, when one site crashes, the other tabs do not.
The search box and the address bar have been fused into a hybrid "Omnibox," which includes suggestions for URLs culled from your browser's history and search suggestions from your search engine. It also remembers site-specific search engine results. There's also Application Shortcuts, a feature that lets you create desktop icons for Web-only applications, such as Gmail or Calendar. The stealth mode, Incognito, lets you surf without the history recording cookies. With version 3, themes have been introduced to Chrome and users can reskin the browser with more than 30 choices--not quite the depth of Firefox, but they don't seem to negatively affect performance. A developer's version of Chrome supports extensions, which haven't made it into this stable release yet. If you're addicted to Web apps and a need for speed, though, Chrome just might be the shine your browsing experience has been looking for.
Publisher's description
From Google :Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.
What's new in this version:
- This release fixes a couple of browser crashes:
- fixes a crash while typing in the omnibox
- fixes a crash while playing mp4 videos with odd sizes, such as 1366x768
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- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 1042 votes
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Version: Google Chrome 3.0.195.38
Pros: used chrome for a long time now - love the speed and features. took some getting used to but i love it!
Cons: it crashes 8-10 times a day. always different sites and different things going on. hasnt always been this way 0 i think it is just this version it went south
Summary: If I could go back a version I would. I love its features and speed. it is very unstable right now and I am thinking Firefox. Just not worth crashing every day. It does recover from exceptions and brings me back to where I was but it is very inc... read more >>
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Version: Google Chrome 3.0.195.38
Pros: I don't have the 10 characters minimum worth of pros to satisfy your requirements
Cons: It doesn't look or feel as good as Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer
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Version: Google Chrome 3.0.195.38
Pros: I didnt find it that great really some times I think things just get promoted because of as name, this one for me the hype was bigger then the browser I didnt find any real amazing features and it seemed mostly copy cat of opera browser and not that
Cons: great of a copy either opera is still faster and offers more "under the hood" if you want a real browser that has over a decade of experience and not so "experimental" go check out opera ive been a user for ever I tried this one out of
curiositySummary: but went back after a good day playing with it
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Version: Google Chrome 3.0.195.38
"The best browser ever: Fast and Reliable"
Pros: It's fast, reliable and customizable.
Cons: A lot of sites do not fully support Google Chrome
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Version: Google Chrome 3.0.195.38
"The best speedy browser out here now a days"
Pros: Its speed is real fast and quick,i lvu how it so light weight and it takes up less memory usage than any other browser like firefox which is a hog
Cons: sumwebsite be non responsive in google chrome like sites that work with flash player its be like slow to respond
Summary: Its a good browser but sumthing with the flash player be making the browser hang on some websites, but will try chrome again in the future!
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