Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Google Chrome: My thoughts

At first glance it looks like any standard browser, tabbed browsing, bookmarks, history, etc.

But there are some pretty interesting, and new features with Chrome.

One feature that I found really interesting is that each tab is run as its own process, giving you the ability to monitor the memory usage, CPU usage, and network activity.
If a web site giving you problems, you can kill the process without completely closing out of the browser.
Task manager

Another cool feature is “Incognito mode”.

"Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito won't be logged in your browsing and download histories; all new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window."

This does not prevent the destination website from logging your activities, and any files you download will still remain on the computer.

Here is situation where Incognito mode would be helpful. Say you are doing some Christmas shopping for your kids online, and they are somewhat computer savvy, this would prevent them from going into the history and spoiling the surprise.
Incognito mode

For all of the features see the link below:
Google Chrome Features

It is definitely worth checking out.

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