I am an Electronics & Telecomm. engineer and like many other contemporary engineers ,I will also be serving a IT based company for the major part of my career doing the things that other software engineers do.That's OKay too 'coz jobs are there in IT sector only...and also because the four years in the college hasn't infused in us ample Electronics skills to be frank.Going to an IT firm is simpler beacuse of the incline,jobs being much simpler there at the start and also becoz we have made up our mind for that.Anyway,today I don't want to discuss this.
Actually,today I have read an article about 'Wars of the browsers' in the Digit October'2008 edition where a very streamlined comparisons have been made between the four major browsers as of now.They included Internet Explorer,Mozilla Firefox,Opera and the latest in the block Google's Chrome.
Microsoft has done a lot with IE8 and has improved it tremendously in the manner of speed and security.The concept of 'web-slices' again came to the discussion which I haven't tested yet for myself.The look and feel of IE8 went against it.
Mozilla Firefox is my favourite browser .........mostly because of it's 1000s of addons as I have already mentioned in one of my previous blogs.The thing that struck me is that it is far from being 'Perfect' (Although I never expected it to be!). It is pretty slow to respond...they mentioned it to be around 8-10 seconds.This I too noticed but I obviously didn't bother to use my watch to note the time lag.
They appreciated Opera 9.5 for its looks as always and the Speed dial feature.The various small widgets for almost anything also earned it good responses but compared to the big giants,it stands no where.
Coming to Chrome.Google released Chrome on 2nd Sept'2008.This year google also released its most talked about mobile services in association with T-Mobile and HTC.The mobile is named as G-1 and is based on the Android open source OS.The features incorporated in it make it a direct rival to Apple's i-Phone but with a price tag much lower than it.
Okay lets discuss it some other day.
So about Chrome.It looks an exciting option...but till now its only an option and has not acquired a 'mandatory' proposition (for me atleast).The speed of Chrome is mind blowing ... comparable to the response of any windows icon being clicked(a bit of exagerration,i suppose).Then the most catchy thing is its clean interface.The color, which are shades of blue for the most part of it, make it pleasant to look at.Google has done away with most of the buttons seen on other browsers and there is much space for the web-pages.All the options for customization & control are contained within the 3 buttons (one is having a 'page' like icon ,other has a wrench and the last button is for managing bookmarks). It has, like Opera, the speed dial concept twisted a bit.Instead of the user selecting the web sites to be shown on the new page,Chrome puts the last 9 visited websites on the new page and has called it 'Most visited' thumbnails.It contains a 'Search' box to search the history and below it a table showing the 'recent bookmarks'.The address bar of Chrome is a combo of 'search box' and address bar.All said and done,the security measures of Chrome are still naive and needs a lot to be done.And I am sure Google enthusiasts are working on it as I write this.But one thing tat everyone has been missing in the various articles I have come across about chrome is its facility to 'Create application shortcuts'.Any webpage on chrome can be saved as an application shortcut on the Desktop and the specified page can be opened as and when required in a streamed version of the Chrome.This needs a lot of attention in view of the future and Google's vision of making all applications online.Vision this,instead of the regular 'My Computer' and 'My Documents' icon on your desktop you have different icons clicking on whom opens the streamed Chrome and connects you the corresponding web-addresses.As it has been visioned that the future will be online,with every thing stored on the web...doesn't this feature of Chrome hints in that direction.
Okay,you may ask what it has got to do with the present anyway!I accept it has very limited functionality as of now.I made the application shortcut of an online game with the help of Chrome and now I don't have to go to that web-page in the usual (lengthier) manner.Just one click on the icon and Chrome opens it with a blink.
Also chrome has been created to handle javascripts better with the help of its V8 engine.It is much faster when it comes to render videos and audio files on net.The simple argument to this by Google was ,"The old browsers were written for handling HTML. But today,when we don't deal with HTML alone ... why not make a browser which caters to today's needs."Pretty wise and revolutionizing!
May be you would also like to give it a try.Get Chrome here.
See you later then.I would also discuss about the dismal state of Windows and Microsoft...and something about Windows 7, Google's another innovative and revolutionizing concept to make different mobile services available to a single user for better services.
Well more about it later.Bye.
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