Google launch Chrome browser as challenge to Microsoft Explorer
Posted by Katherine Thompson on September 3, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Google unveiled a new Web browser on Tuesday, with which it hopes to lure users away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Google's Chrome browser, launched just a week after Microsoft presented an updated version of Internet Explorer, is designed to be faster, easier, more stable and more secure. This is supposed to aid users who use the Web to run complex applications, such as watching videos and running sophisticated programs that were once housed exclusively within a PC's hard drive.
The Chrome browser has a single box to type in keywords and Internet addresses. It's designed with "tabs" at the top of the page that access individual Web sites independently, so if one stalls it does not cause the others to crash. Furthermore, like the new version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it offers an "incognito" feature that lets users surf online without storing cookies or a history of which sites they visited.
Source: MercuryNews.com via IFRA Executive News Service
Google's Chrome browser, launched just a week after Microsoft presented an updated version of Internet Explorer, is designed to be faster, easier, more stable and more secure. This is supposed to aid users who use the Web to run complex applications, such as watching videos and running sophisticated programs that were once housed exclusively within a PC's hard drive.The Chrome browser has a single box to type in keywords and Internet addresses. It's designed with "tabs" at the top of the page that access individual Web sites independently, so if one stalls it does not cause the others to crash. Furthermore, like the new version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it offers an "incognito" feature that lets users surf online without storing cookies or a history of which sites they visited.
Source: MercuryNews.com via IFRA Executive News Service
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