Now Google Chrome is available I thought I’d follow up on my blog earlier this week about the performance of Google’s new browser.
Google’s big claim on the launch of their Chrome browser is that it’s fast when browsing the web, and it certainly is that. It’s a very light browser with none of the normal tool bar options you get in Internet Explorer and Firefox which makes it easier to run however, there’s currently no Java plug-in built into the browser and when trying to load a Java plug-in I was told there was no add-on available, so there are limits in the websites you can view with Chrome.
In addition, all of the SEO tools that we use in Firefox, that give great SEO functionality to Firefox aren’t available yet. However as Chrome is a Open Source browser I imagine that it won’t be long until at least some of these SEO tools are available.
I find the clean interface of Chrome easy to use and the start page that shows recently browsed websites in thumbnails is also good. Like Firefox, Google Chrome allows you to have a Bookmark Toolbar where you can store your most frequently used websites so you can access them without having to pull up a menu to do this.
Similarly to Firefox and Internet Explorer 7, Google Chrome also allows you to run multiple websites in tabs. However, Chrome does run each tab as a separate process, meaning that if a website crashes the whole browser doesn’t crash.
Matt Cutts of Google, has addressed a number of issues with Chrome that people are asking and reassured us that from Google’s point of view they still support Firefox and aren’t using the development of their browser to gather more information about people’s behaviour and their most commonly used websites.
Given time and some more developments including plug-ins like Java and so
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