If you’re a web designer or if you just like to browse and stumlbe a lot, you have to read this post. Google launched their own browser called Chrome. I guess they thought we don’t have enough different browsers to choose 
As a web developer and designer my first reaction was: “AAAAARRRRGGHHH!!!! Not another pain in my but!!!!”. I allready have to design my websites for IE6, IE7, Safari, Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 (these are the browsers I optimize my websites for). Now I have to optimize them for Chroma too?!
Well, it’s not all that bad as it seems. I played with Chrome for few hours today and I pretty happy with what Google sent our way. Most of you would like to know if Google Chrome follows all current standards for rendering websites. Short answer, it does. But I did find some minor bugs on some websites while browsing with it. But I’m sure these are just glitches from developers point of view. So far I’m pretty happy how my websites render under this new browser.
What about GUI (graphic user interface)?What makes a good GUI? My answer is simplicity, I think Google really came through when you talk about simplicity and user friendly interface. They removed title bar from the browser and put tabs in there. These little change creates more space for actual browser render window. However I wasn’t to happy about missing home button. I’ve set up Google as home page on all of my browsers and I’ve gotten quite used to it. So needless to say I was kind of shocked why did they remove home button.
Don’t worry. You can add home button to your toolbar simply by going to options menu and check the button “Show Home button in toolbar” (I’m translating this text from Slovenian version, it might be a bit different in English version). Anyway, the home button appears in toolbar as it should be. I was trying to figure out, why Google removed it, I guess they just want us to start using address bar as search engine since this is one of the options now. You don’t have to type only web addresses in the address bar. You can type in simple search query and you’ll be redirected to Google search results.
Another great move from Google in my opinion is the alert you receive when you first start the browser. It asks you if you want to make Google your primary search engine. All other browsers makes this choice for you (kreh…IE….kreh). It’s nice to have a choice in my opinion.
Anyway I would really like to hear your opinion about this new browser. What do you like or disslike about it. Do you think it will become popular enough?
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Sarah
Actually, I didn’t want to download this browser. But I have read that this browser has some great feature. Sounds interesting.