Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 688 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  411,304

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Vista, Windows XP

• Additional Requirements:

  No additional requirements

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  December 11, 2008

• Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

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.

Version 1.0.154.36 includes better stability and performance of plug-ins (particularly video), better bookmarking and privacy features, and improved speed.

Note: The Download Now link will take you to the Google Chrome Web site, where you must accept the end-user license agreement before downloading. Also, the 474K downloadable file is only a stub installer. You must remain connected to the Internet during installation to complete the full download of Google Chrome.

CNET Editor's Note: 11/25/08 - updated v0.4.154.25 - sethr.

Editor's review of Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

• 4.0 stars

• "Your browser needs a shine"

• Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt
• Reviewed on: November 25, 2008
• Version reviewed: Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

Chrome is Google's attempt to make the 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 browsers on the market today.

Currently only for Windows, Chrome is blazingly fast and is easily the quickest browser available. Based on Webkit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari and Google's Android mobile platform, 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 browser does not.

Within each tab are individual controls, such as forward and back buttons. The search box and the address bar have been fused into a hybrid "Omnibox." The Omnibox includes not only suggestions for URLs culled from your browser's history, it also includes search suggestions from your search engine, and remembers site-specific search engine results. There's also Application Shortcuts, a feature that allows you to create desktop icons for Web-only applications, such as Gmail or Calendar. The stealth mode, Incognito, lets you surf without the history recording cookies.

Chrome lacks plug-ins, and there's the potential for high memory usage given that each tab is its own process. 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.

User reviews of Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

• Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 688 votes
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• 5 stars

  Version: Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

  "The best web browser"

  by chriszacht on January 11, 2009

  Pros: cool efficient clean

  Cons: problems with flash

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• 4 stars

  Version: Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

  "Sometimes Good Sometimes Bad"

  by samdarsh143 on January 11, 2009

  Pros: Faster than any other browser on most of the sites

  Cons: Eats Up Kilos of RAM
  Opens some sites slower than firefox

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• 4 stars

  Version: Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

  "Good but needs polishing"

  by 3agl3 on January 10, 2009

  Pros: Faster surf , easy to use and understand design

  Cons: No add-ons like Firefox and others and no customizable themes

  Summary: Google should improve it in what other browsers have but keeping in mind that many like fast surf and easy to use designs
  
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• 5 stars

  Version: Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

  ""Great.Great.Great"!!!!!!"

  by neel_b on January 10, 2009

  Pros: Brilliant speed!!!!!! simple look.......great blocking of pop-ups

  Cons: no extensions,no add-ons,not so simple interface

  Summary: It's brilliant......it can be a good option instead of FF......the speed is same as that of firefox.......but the thing i like the most is that it blocks pop-ups very very well..........even better than FF.......though FF is the best it can be used ... read more >>

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• 1 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Google Chrome 1.0.154.36

  "Not the best, Unsecure"

  by Petoskey116 on January 10, 2009

  Pros: It is sorta fast... i guess...

  Cons: 1. It doesn't play flash animated games and apps right.
  2. It's unsecure, viruses can easily download on your computer, it Doesn't ask if you want to save a file to your computer.
  3. Sometimes it locks up and wont load any web pages.

  Summary: This browser is ok, but it sucks... I hate it, I use opera instead.

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