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Chrome’s interface is clean and clutter free, just like most of Google’s own The adaptive home page shows the sites you visit most often, and your
web pages. bookmarks neatly arranged on the side.

The browser has its own task manager to monitor the memory being utilized This is how the adaptive home page looks with thumbnails of the most visited
by each of the tabs and plugins. sites and the list of bookmarks to the side.

sites visited is saved in the History. Even
cookies are cleared as soon as you exit
the browser. In spite of being a second,
secret window, the browser still allows
users to access their bookmarks. This
feature comes in handy to make sure that
confidential sites are not displayed as
thumbnails on the default home page!
Pop-ups are also restricted to the tab
they are generated from, so you don’t have
them scattered all over your computer
screen while you are browsing. Users have
the option to pull out pop-ups and convert
them into new windows.
Unlike in other browsers, new pop-
ups don’t open even when you start
downloading files. The download starts
immediately and its progress is shown on
a wide bar at the bottom of the screen.
The bar shows a maximum of four files
even if you have 10 downloads happening
at a time. When you click the ‘Show all
downloads’ button, you will see them all
on a dedicated page, but even this is clean
and clutter-free.
Usability
In an attempt to make it the browser
friendly to non-technical users, Google
has also gone a step further to keep the
options dialog as simple as possible. The
‘Options’ panel has only three tabs. Here,
users can modify the settings with respect
to the home page, default browser, proxy
settings and even the default search
engine. Google has very democratically
included other search engines in spite
of being most people’s default choice.
One option that could be a cause of
concern for users is the ‘Show Saved
Passwords’ button. If you turn this option
on by mistake, all your passwords will be
unencrypted in the password text box, and
there doesn’t seem to be an option to turn
it off.
The developers have also taken care
to curb malware and phishing to a great
extent. The architecture is such that
malware cannot write any files to your
hard drive, thus preventing your computer
from being infected.
Chrome also has Google Gears built
into it. Gears is a Google project that
can improve Web browsing by allowing
websites to run certain applications on
clients’ computers to enable quicker and
more powerful features. You don’t have to
install Gears separately while browsing.
One of the drawbacks of Chrome is
the lack of warning messages. This is a
concern because it doesn’t offer to save
passwords or even warn you while closing
the browser with multiple tabs running,
which can inconvenience the user.
Google Chrome is an Open Source
browser, which leaves a lot of scope
for improvement in the coming years.
Even in the Beta version the browser
is quite stable and achieves almost
everything Google has promised. More
web applications and plug-ins are being
developed to be compatible with Google
Chrome, and as that happens, it will be
a strong choice for most people as their
default browser. 
– monali.gaikwad@chip.in

20 | INTELLIGENT COMPUTING CHIP | OCTOBER 2008