The remarkable addition to the internet browser world, Google Chrome is making its way to the top. Released today, there have been thousands of downloads, dozens or reviews and blog entries are already available on the internet. In this article, we are going to look at some features Google Chrome offers.

First of all, this is just a beta release; not the full and final version. So, don’t be excited if you see some incompatibilities when navigating through the web. The appearance of the new member seems extremely simple and streamlined. Yes, Chrome has been designed with a vision; to make sure the user is not distracted by the browser features when doing work in internet. Chrome can be installed with just few clicks and Google has taken care of most of the background installation procedures. Now where is the user guide? I’m sure someone may want a user guide as this is brand new software. Yes, read Google Chrome Comic Book and that’s your user guide to Chrome!

A normal browser such as IE or Firefox would run as a process in the operating system and each tab will be a separate thread running in the process. So if one tab stops responding, then the whole process hangs. So eventually, users will have to close the browser, losing all the other opened tabs. Chrome offers a revolutionary solution for this problem; not the browser but all the tabs run as separate processes. So if one tab hangs, you can just close it without affecting others!

Chrome offers you another facility that you wouldn’t find prominently in any other browser; searching your bookmarks and history. What a feature??? If you want some site not to be recorded in history, then you can open a special tab for browsing and nothing will be saved in history (including cache and cookies).

There are many other new features offered by Google Chrome and it is here to stay! Let’s discuss some other features and performance compared to other popular web browsers in the next article.