Google evening on September 2 issued a beta version of its browser Chrome. After a pair of hours of testing users vyplesnuli impression in their blogs. It turned out that many Chrome aroused mixed feelings. We decided to realize that in the new browser well and what is bad.

Setting

So far there is only a new browser for Windows XP and Windows (versions promised under Mac OS kernel and Linux). On the site you can select one of four dozen language versions and then press the big button "Download Google Chrome" and accept the license agreement. You can also watch several video clips of Chrome.

Sam installation took about half a megabyte. He then dokachivaet components to the twenty-megabyte and expanded form takes about 40 megabytes.

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The installation procedure has been one of the biggest minuses browser. At home computer author (OS Windows Vista Ultimate) installer finally departed. At a working computer (Windows Vista Home Premium) povis process, although by that time the installation has been completed. Problems in the installation process - one of the most common complaints of Chrome.

Ok

In general, Google Chrome very praise that surprising for the programme, which 0.2.149.27 version and version 1.0 is clearly not appear in the near future.

First, Chrome very fast. No, indeed, speed display pages in the eye with either the incomparably Firefox, or even constructed with the same engine Safari (here it must be said that Safari rather quickly in his native Mac OS X. The version of Windows very slowly). Closest to the speed of Opera 9.50.

Secondly, Chrome, which is entirely rewritten mechanism JavaScript, very good working web applications. Standardized test speed JavaScript SunSpider showed that Chrome under load (about 30 tabs) fulfilled all tasks on average for 2872 milliseconds (less than this figure, the better).

By comparison, Internet Explorer 7 (no load) has completed tests with the figure of 107,524 (!) Milliseconds, Firefox 3 (no load) - for 4925 milliseconds, Safari 3.1.2 - for 6206 milliseconds, and Opera 9.52 - for 6788 milliseconds.

As a result, most Google services fly - primarily concerned former rather slow Google Calendar. Lightning loaded Google Reader. Convenient Gmail. From any page, you can make a shortcut on the desktop. When you start a label with the correct window web service, but without the address bar and other interface elements. With the active use of several Web applications, this feature is very useful.

The third, very good browser interface. Everything in its place - vypolzaet status line only when needed, you can change the order and even peretyagivat mouse out of the window to window. The funny looks and a new "empty" page that are the most popular sites the user and his favorite search queries.

And fourthly, address bar, combined with the search for Google, very functional, and hints of possible addresses not stretching the eye and do not hinder.

In the fifth, very conveniently located and grouped settings. Is that initially unclear whether the panel Chrome bookmarks. There is - appears by pressing Ctrl-B.

In the sixth, developers and users simply curious get together with the browser debugger JavaScript, JavaScript console and manager tasks, where you can see how much memory as the "eats". And kill most prozhorlivuyu.

Bed

Deficiencies at Google Chrome slightly, but they are. Thus, Chrome miracle with spell-checking, stressing approximately every third Russian word as unhealthy, does not support extending the augmentation and does not know what "gestures" mouse.

Some sites are opened improperly. So, Alex Eksleru found that the site Nokia.ru in Chrome is not similar to themselves. Adding that the same applies not only to Russia but to other resources and Nokia.

It is noteworthy that in Google have done much to ensure the safety of Chrome - shared tabs on the processes, cut processes of law, running everything that you can, in virtual machines. Nevertheless, shortly after the release of beta browser, IT-expert Aviv Raff said that a vulnerability has been discovered in Chrome. It proved ... users.

To penetrate beyond the line of defence attacker requires that the user has gone to a special website and click on the icon of the executable file downloads. Thus, the negligence of the users may still be "rubble" any system.

In addition, it should not be forgotten that, along with Chrome in the community has a conspiracy theory - Pier need a Google browser in order to gather information about users. It even that is used for this fishingovy filter that checks sites visited on the blacklist.

Because dissuade users something not possible, offer them through the conspiracy theories to draw more attention to Chapter 11 license agreement. There room for more paranoia, as in this chapter calls for Google to give him the right to use the content consumer. At Slashdot this small print, incidentally, have noticed and begun to actively discuss.

Perspective

The new browser interested in very many. By the end of the first day of dividend share of Google Chrome in RuNet according to LiveInternet stood at 0.8 percent, more than 8 Opera, Firefox 1 and Internet Explorer 5. According to statistics GetClicky figure was even higher - nearly 2.8 (!) Per cent.

For one day this magnificent result, users predict it even more income in their predictions up to 20 percent in two weeks.

Nevertheless, this browser is unlikely to UDP greater share of the market, at least in the short term. It is not even that many now try the program, and then its score.

Just in the mass of its users - not those who download unfamiliar browsers. The bulk of these "internetchikov" uses a browser that is installed on the computer he has bought. If a person bought a computer with Windows, he is 80-90 per cent of the cases will use Internet Explorer. If you bought a Mac - Safari. Simply put, they are inert.

To Google won the browser market, new computers should already be installed Chrome. Or number (which is not always the case) should be the person who will explain that Google Chrome offers much faster "Odnoklassnikov" and "Vkontakte." Google quietly working in that direction - to the new set (and probably computers) sometimes drives attached to the search engine programs. We have to think that such discs will soon appear and Chrome.

Google makes no secret that made the browser for their services, as well as for people who live on the Internet. The difficulty here is that the mass consumer, as shown by the same statistics, does not matter to the possibilities of browsers and speed their work. Otherwise Opera would not engage in the market units per cent, and Internet Explorer 6 - three dozen. He does not live on the Internet. He looked there.