Computer System Reviews

So I am writing this using Google’s new offering, their new Web Browser called chrome, which amongst all the rumours circulating around, we all knew was going to happen soon.

This tool is extremely well designed, but would you expect anything less from the search masters? The navigation is extremely slick, the url bar includes google search. They give you as much screen space as possible by getting rid of the status bar at the bottom and making the tabs sit across the application bar at the top. In setup it also will automatically import all your IE settings and bookmarks. From what I have read on the Internet, so far there seems to be little to report about finding bugs in the software.

With all this worry about google collecting your search habits whilst searching, there is some worry about what Chrome could potentially do, as it would capture you whole Internet experience. Do not worry however, Matt Cutts - a member of google’s webspam team, wrote on his blog about what information is sent to google.

Well the answer is pretty much nothing, the only thing that goes is the search hints when you type in an url, but you can use another search engine or turn them off completely! The software is completely open-source as well, so if you are so inclined you could take a look yourself and settle your nerves that way.

For developers Chrome has a lot of utility straight from outside the box. You can view the source like pretty much all Web browsers, this pops out into another tab where everything is colour coded, much like you would expect from an IDE(Interactive Developer Environment).

It also contains two other options, which are pretty awesome - The JavaScript console and debugger. Pretty powerful tools to be included as standard and I am definitely going to be using the next time I do some javascript work!

If you fancy the download, click here.