A Certain Presence of Mine

As we reported here last week, Google Chrome - the first ‘beta’ edition of their revolutionary web browser, was released to the public last week, and so far, the reception has been very good — with most reviewers very happy with this new web browser, welcoming the healthy competition it will engender, and looking forward to future releases and new features.

We’ve rounded up a few reviews and commentary below for you, and can report from our own use of the browser that it’s —

1. Fast to load into memory
2. Fast and smooth loading web pages
3. Great at handling complex pages with a lot of Ajax and Javascript
4. Has a great, intuitive history feature
5. Is great for searching, especially the ‘type-ahead’ feature
6. Has the best ‘home page’ we’ve seen - a collection of screenshots of the pages you visit most
7. Handles badly behaved pages easily - you simply close the tab, rather than having your browser crash entirely
8. Has very easy to understand options and settings
9. Allows you to see more web page, and less browser
10. Has extremely robust security built-in to protect you

All in all, we found the browser a delight to use, and cant wait for the next versions (and hope the Mac version will be along soon). We think that it will become a serious, and worthy competitior to Internet Explorer, even in environments where nobody every thinks to use an alternative browser to that which comes bundled with their operating system.

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