Google Chrome: Yet Another Move From The Masters (And 9 Useful Features)

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When we talk about design, web design specifically, internet browsers cannot be ignored. I’m too lazy to write up a post on that, so here’s Praval, with a guest post. If you’d like to guest post too, contact me!
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The clash between the browsers mainly Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and

Opera has gone more intensified with the release of Google’s open-source web browser: Chrome. For the past two months, there were important updates within these browsers but with the advent of Chrome, new standards have been set in a simple and intuitive style. Purely a Google way! A new platform has taken birth to help us unleash the strength of the Internet. Web applications now have another base to be made for and run.

Google Chrome is a Ferrari! Sleek, classy, highly secure and full of oomph but yet very powerful. Developers worked on every minute detail to make it ascertain that this browser satisfies the need of new web applications. Chrome is built on open-source Web-Kit platform which supports multithreading.

In this post, Praval highlights 9 useful features of Google Chrome. Enjoy! - Ed.

One Box For Everything!

The address bar in Google chrome doubles up as a search box too! Start typing the address into the address bar and it will automatically suggest popular websites and even websites which you have already visited so that you can search in a jiffy.

Automatic Tabbing

Google Chrome will automatically display your most visited pages, search engines, most recent bookmarks and even closed tabs. You can also drag and drop the top of the tabs to change the order. You can even pull the tab in its own window and put it back again.

Application Shortcuts

Chrome provides you an option to place an application shortcut on desktop, start menu or quick launch bar. Just click the icon to launch it in its own Google Chrome window.

In Built Task Manager

Chrome manages the stability by treating a tab as a different process altogether. There is also an inbuilt task manager to see memory used by the tabs and plug-ins. You can end-process a tab or plug-in which is causing a problem without letting the whole browser crash.

Incognito Mode

Incognito mode is a private browsing feature of Chrome. It prevents the browser from storing any history information or cookies from the websites visited. This is quite similar to the private browsing feature available in the latest beta version of Internet Explorer 8.

Secure Browsing

Chrome helps you to prevent opening any malicious or a phishing website. When you open up a suspected website, Chrome will show you a warning message like this:

Chrome periodically downloads updates of two blacklists (one for phishing and one for malware)

Instant Bookmarking

To save a bookmark, just click on the star next to the address bar. The link will be automatically added to the toolbar above the address bar for quick launch.

Importing Settings

Another feature similar to Firefox is to import settings from other browsers. It will import bookmarks, search engines, saved passwords and browsing history from the browser selected.

Simpler Downloads

When you start downloading a file, you will see its progress at the bottom of the chrome’s window. When it gets finished, just drag and drop the file or you can run it from there itself by clicking on it.

Downloads have never been so simple!

More

If you’re convinced by this article, you can download Chrome here (for free!).

This is a guest post by Praval who is a freelance writer/blogger and works for Uswaretech, a Django Consulting shop as Web Evangelist and Online Marketer.

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