Sunday, February 6, 2011

One of the best browser till date: Google Chrome 9

You may have noticed but your Chrome browser has been automatically updated. If not, click on the tools icon followed by "About Google Chrome" .Google released Chrome 9 this week.  



Some of the  features are Chrome Instant search, a speed enhancer that loads Web pages as you type a URL. Other notable upgrades include WebGL support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, as well as access to Google's new Chrome Web Store.

Google Instant 
This feature will automatically load webpages as you type the URL in the addressbar. The option is turned off by default. You can turn it on by Option-Check "Enable Instant for faster searching and browsing". 

WebGL
By far the most compelling feature of the newly released browser is the integration of WebGL in the browser. WebGL support brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser without the need for additional software. Google's Body Browser, for instance, uses WebGL to employ a computer's GPU to speed up rendering of 3D graphics. Chrome is the first browser with this technology which should be soon available on Firefox and IE. Definitely a technology to watch.

Chrome WebStore 
The store offers a collection of free and commercial Chrome applications, extensions and themes. The Chrome Webstore  is now here for quite some time yet appeals masses with its over 100s of free and paid apps.  Though few of the web apps are optimized speciafically for chrome, many others can be used with their full potential for Firefox and safari. You can download web app, open it as new window or create shortcuts on desktop. Windows users can also pin web app to start-menu or create a quciklaunch icon for the webapp for quick and easy access. Chrome WebStore 

Cloud printing
With this feature you will be able to print from devices that cannot directly communicate with Printers. Cloud printing Allows printing from any app on any device, OS or browser without the need to install any software.When released later this January, the support was limited for Windows OS only. To put it simply you will be able to print Google docs  or any other document from your smart phone.

WebP files 
WebP is new image format that offers better compression for images over the web. This implies that image file size will substantially reduce resulting in faster download rate while the picture quality is maintained.You can download the image converter from here: WebP files

Overall, Chrome 9 adds some compelling upgrades while retaining the speed and simplicity that makes Google's browser so compelling. 

6 comments:

Aditya said...

looks impressive. but I think I'm gonna wait for Firefox to upgrade itself with these features.

dhaval said...

Google instant thing is kinda cool..

Jeet Damania said...

Aditya Mozilla will soon launch Firefox 4.Till then you can use its beta version.
Firefox 4 Beta: http://mzl.la/gVuRmU
Firefox 4 Beta Features: http://mzl.la/ayPfQD

Chrome is indeed a very good browser having better security feature, starting time and simple as well as fast browsing.Even the User Interface is designed keeping in mind that one can view maximum webpage.It is still third in race behind IE and Firefox but in a very short time it has covered 10 % of market share.

Jeet Damania said...

Dhaval i agree it is a very nice feature

Viral Shah said...

Chrome is fastest i feel.. the Google instant makes it even faster... although webGL features were there in previous versions as well..
But I just recently checked out Google Webstore, and its simply awesome..The only reason i even opened firefox was to use its addons but i was stunned to find most of them in Google Webstore..Plus they bringing in Web3.0...It's Gonna be awesome!

Viral Shah said...

N ya one more thing.. IE sucks...It's just Sad n Outdated.. As a programmer I hate it even more coz of all the non-compatibility issues..

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