Dustyhawk :: Broken Mirror

It’s 0342hrs at where Serge is and he is testing out Google Chrome. So far, it is everything that Google said it will be, memory footprint of Chrome is not that bad; though it’ll be nice if it was using less. Then again Serge is pushing Google Chrome to the maximum.

Probably due to the current tweaking he has done with his Vista, Serge could not fully maximized Google Chrome, however even after restarting the browser many times the Google Chrome has yet to crash. 10 tabs open and nothing serious yet.

This is the default homepage of Google Chrome which list down any recent page you have gone to recently. As well as bookmarks which you have made. Really nice for people such as Serge who always opens up the same pages.

This are the options menu available, nothing much really just your basic stuff and its quite simple to use actually. Works really great with Google Gears

Now this is, this is Serge’s favorite part about Google Chrome. The Incognito Window. Never in his life has he ever felt save porn surfing the webspace.

This here is a system that makes shortcuts of any webpages which you’re currently visiting. You can have it as a desktop shortcut, a quicklink or to the Start Menu. Useful, though Serge won’t be using much of it.

Web designers will be fapping right now, as this is something like Firefox’s Firebug add-on. A nice handy tool to check the elements of a webpage and all of that. Not as intensive as Firebug, yet it is nice to have.

In this developer section, another goldmine of Google Chrome, is the ability to debug JavaScript and there’s a console as well. Serge has no idea on JavaScript, so this is something he won’t touch at the moment.

For our final screenshot, it will be this website showned under Google Chrome. Does a really good job actually. Although it did not look exactly as what it was on Firefox, but it is really really close to it. Serge would like to say, Chrome’s interpretation of this site’s stylesheet is excellent.

There you have it folks. The awesome of Google Chrome, he will be back later once he does the traditional rundown of Chrome and pushes it to the limits again!.

For those reading Lifehacker IE 8 is currently available in beta and about a month or so ago our foxy friends at Mozilla launched Firefox 3. We all know what happened when Firefox 3 was launch, the number of IE users dropped and Bill Gates tried to BSOD more people.

Google has joined the fray and will be launching their very own browser called Google Chrome. A simplistic browser that is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go. Or so the developers of Chrome has stated. Google Chrome was not suppose to be revealed yet, however someone in Google was a bit trigger happy as they explained it on their own blog.

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

– A Fresh Take on Browsers : Official Google Blog

Serge was not able to gather any leaked application of Google Chrome, yet from the videos and images he has seen across the bloggersphere… this might be a Firefox killer. Features of Chrome which seems impressive are :

Smarter memory management. A sophisticated approach to data storage across time and tabs will keep the browser in top shape.

Crash-free app browsing. Applications will be partitioned in the browser so if one crashes, it won’t crash your whole browser.

Tabs on the top. Instead of tabs being displayed below your address bar, inside the browser - they’ll ride on top of each browser window. We’ll see what this is like for the user, we do wonder.

Quick navigation. Your most frequently visited pages will be available in a point and click navigation, like Opera’s Quick Dial.

OpenID sign in…Google released an application for the platform that essentially makes Google an OpenID Provider as per Steven Osborn

With the launch being on the 2nd September 2008 at about 11.00AM PDT (uncertain about the time though), which is 02.00AM UTC+8 on the 3rd of September here in Malaysia. For the love of all that is good let there be no traffic when Serge goes for it.

Other Sources of Google Chrome :
Read Write Web
Blogscoped
Saurabh Garg
Make It Rain
Wikipedia : Google Chrome