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Chrome (beta) (09/02/2008)

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Entered CNET Catalog: 09/02/2008

SKU: CNETGOOGLECHROME/BETA

Manufacturer: Google

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  • Reviewed on: 09/02/2008

Google has released the beta version of a new browser, Chrome. In its comic-book preannouncement, Google stated correctly that watching videos, chatting, and even playing Web-based games didn't exist when browsers were first invented. Google wants the browser to help users focus on the applications and pages they are viewing, rather than on browser toolbars and buttons. Google has rethought the Internet browser--some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel--but users will recognize some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.

At the moment, only the Windows version of Chrome is available for download. Plans call for Mac OS X and Linux versions in the near future. That said, Google has released Chrome in 43 languages and in 122 countries.

Chrome is based on the open-source project Webkit, the same rendering engine used by Apple Safari. If a page renders in Safari, it will render in Chrome. Webkit is also the basis for Android, Google's mobile platform, so it seems that Google is planning to use Chrome in mobile environments.

The interface in Chrome is very different from other browsers and takes a little getting used to. Instead of the traditional Netscape/IE-style toolbar across the top, Chrome puts tabs across the top. Moreover, the tabs are detachable, so the terms "tabs" and "windows" become interchangeable within Chrome. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser, and tabs can be rearranged at any time.

New tab pages display your nine most visited Web pages, as well as the searches you perform most, and your most recent bookmarks. Within each tab are individual controls, such as forward and back buttons. Missing is the search box. Instead, Chrome sports a hybrid address bar, which Google calls the Omnibox. The Omnibox includes not only suggestions for URLs culled from your browser's history, but it also includes search suggestions from Google. URL Auto completion in Chrome is for top-level domains, not just some individual page you last visited on a site. There are also other neat additional elements; for example, if you go to Amazon and type within its search box to find a book or CD, Chrome remembers that Amazon search and when it next suggests the Amazon URL in the Omnibox, it also include a link to Amazon's search box.

Application Shortcuts is a feature that allows you to create desktop icons for Web-only applications, such as Gmail or Calendar.

And there's a stealth mode, as well. Like IE8 InPrivate, Chrome has its own incognito mode. The Incognito window looks different: it's darker and has a little detective character in the upper left corner to help you remember it's not remembering the Web sites you visit. Although the Omnibox in Incognito has access to the regular Chrome history, everything typed into that stealth tab will be erased when you exit, as though you were never there.

Chrome deals with pop-up dialogues in a novel way. Pop-ups associated with a Web page appear within that page's tab, so if you want to see a pop-up in greater detail, just drag it out into its own new window. This carries over to downloads as well. Instead of using a pop-up dialogue, downloads are shunted to the bottom of the tab frame where you can monitor or interact with them if you wish.

Because of isolating each tab's process, if one tab in Chrome crashes, the entire browser does not. This is similar to a feature within IE8 beta 2. In terms of security, isolating tabs means each tab is in its own sandbox. Applets launched on a page within Chrome are read-only, do not install to the operating system, and cannot access data already on the hard drive.

For performance, Google emphasizes speed. According to Google says, most browsers are singled-threaded, so that when a browser starts a Javascript process, it waits until that process ends. Sometimes the process gets stuck and the browser freezes. What Google has done is to create a multithreaded browser, one that can process several Javascripts at once, for example. In Chrome, one tab can be busy doing one thing while you're off on another tab doing something else. In our CNET tests, we did occasionally see the "Aw, snap" page used when Chrome just can't render a site.

To diagnose why a page didn't load, there's a task manager within Chrome, allowing you to see what process is using memory, even within the plug-ins running on that tab. So, if a Shockwave or Flash file is consuming a lot of memory and preventing a page to launch, you can shut down that process and still load the page.

Google acknowledges up front that having separate processes for separate tabs will create more memory usage, but the Mountain View company says the browser will use less memory over time. For example, when you close a tab in Chrome, you end the memory process completely, freeing up more memory for future use. In a traditional browser, fragments remain running in case you want to reopen the closed tab or as an artifact in how new tabs are created in old browsers. Chrome features enhanced garbage collection, migrating or generally sweeping up pointers as needed instead of leaving them behind. The trade-off, of course, is that closed tab pages cannot be reopened, a feature currently available in Firefox 3 and IE8 Beta 2.

Chrome includes its own Javascript Virtual Machine called V8. Google says that existing JVMs were designed to run tiny applets on Web pages, not full applications of the kind that Google makes today. Among the changes within V8, Chrome combines similar Javascript classes for better optimization, and it doesn't interpret Javascript but converts it to machine code to execute on the CPU, which speeds up the process. V8 is also open source and will be available to developers wanting to use it in the future.

How stable is this beta from Google? Google caches hundreds of millions of Web pages for its search engine; the Gears folks say they've been able to test Chrome on millions of pages within seconds of completing each new build. Using Google page rank, they test against the most popular sites. With public beta testing, they'll start testing against some of the more niche pages on the Web.

Check back for a full, rated review once Chrome is finalized.

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User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Very nice browser with at least one bug so far

Pros: Large screen format with features that are available only as toolbars in IE. Very fast. Sharp HD quality graphics.

Cons: Ver. 5.0.375.126 - Doesn't recognize Slideshow controls on CNN.com

Review: It feels better and fits well on my widescreen display. IE feels awkward compared to Chrome. I hope they will address the CNN slide show problem soon.

Updated on Aug 18, 2010

Read my comment on other point-and-click issues

User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Awesome, Lightening speed, clean

Pros: Incredible speed, great accessibility and personalization features. Never crashes, as did IE. I am so excited about Google Chrome. I'll never go back.

Cons: None whatsoever.

Review: The best browser yet. I'm not surprised, as all Google products are of the highest quality and cutting edge . I have been a faithful fan of Google for years, and Chrome re confirms why.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast / Easy

Pros: Speed (loading) and reliability. Keeping up with industry standards and trends. Bookmarks are awesome.

Cons: None so far.

Review: Fast! (Firefox is getting way too slow). Clean, simple interface makes it easy to use.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

An all around solid and efficient browser

Pros: Simple interface, the sync option that allows you to save all settings and bookmarks to your Google account, the ability to pull tabs into their own window which is an option you don't have with IE

Cons: In the past I have had issues with Chrome crashing on me which can get annoying. Still incompatible with certain websites so having a backup browser is necessary.

Review: Google Chrome completely blows Firefox and IE out of the water. The interface may be a little awkward to some people at first, but it's very easy to adapt to. Everything is easy to find and easy to access thus making it less of a headache compared to other browsers with busy interfaces. Chrome now offers extensions you can add that don't slow down or clutter up your browser and that is a definite plus. Lastly, the ability to search Google by typing something in your address bar is my all time favorite feature, it makes using the internet that much easier. So I'd have to say I strongly recommend this program.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Very Clean

Pros: It's very fast and unencumbered with all the junk found all the other browsers out there.

Cons: There is a learning curve, but I guess thats with anything new.

Review:
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

awesome great web browser a must get!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pros: Converts my bookmarks from firefox uses google search engine to find websites when typing URL

Cons: I don't know anything bad about about Google Chrome

Review: I love this browser much better than any other browsers but said when i was downloading another web browser that this type of file could harm my computer but it said this about safari that i just downloaded and nothing happened.

All in all this is a great web browser! :D
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Chrome STINKS

Pros: In the beginning it worked fine. Now I can't uninstall to install. It will not open period.
I've read google blogs and help center with no solutions it just freezes when I try to uninstall.
It won't open

Cons: Safari and itunes stopped opening!. bloggers write its a toolkit. no word from google to fix this problem which many are having.
I am not sure how to fix this internal problem without taking in to a shop for $69!

Review: Can a person just log onto the computer and complete tasks without so much trouble. first IE, then Google, now Google Chrome.
I've gone to Seamonkey.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Google Chrome

Pros: A plain jane browser! if you don't want any add-ons pic this!

Cons: Everything on this browser sucks Big Butt Cheeks!

Review: If you are Internet and IT illiterate pick this browser it is for U man!
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

I adore this browser!!

Pros: Fast, stable, good resource management, secure

Cons: Privacy.!!

Review: Used as my default browser
User Rating:
2.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast and simple but who is watching?

Pros: It is fast and simple. Don' know how much I would trust it.

Cons: Huge file to download. Would not allow me to save it where I wanted too. Installs all over your hard drive, reminded me of an AOL install, leaves crumbs all over.

Review: Try it for fun but I don't think it is trying to be a serious browser. My fire wall kept allerting me that it was trying to phone home. Would not open important sites like banking and credit cards, errors during important stuff. When you think about it what would Google acheive from you installing it on your computer? More information? Also it will automatically add to Windows "Scheduled Tasks" two "update?" engines. Kind of spooks me. I have a feeling they are just gathering more information when you install it and use it. I believe they are using the same technology as NetZero HighSpeed by using a cloud to what seems like faster surfing when it is not. As more people surf it collects information on sites most visited and stores them on their survers so they seem to load faster.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

VerY nICE AND fAST but very laggy sometimes

Pros: SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEd its so fast and not as blochy as the other browser. loads up faster than others

Cons: when it comes to youtube videos and flash games it sucks. even on performance pcs like deLL XPS/

Review: very good browser for browser but stick to firefox for flash games and videos
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast, fast, fast. BUT, no Roboform

Pros: Chrome is extremely fast and easy to use. I use it 75% of the time and Firefox 25% of the time.

Cons: It doesn't work with Roboform.

Review: Fast, reliable, and easy to use. Doesn't work with Roboform.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

bye bye firefox

Pros: everything much much faster than firefox and ie. Just enough add ons

Cons: none yet that I can find

Review: I have been using firefox from the the start and become so used to it that other browsers didnt seem to compare. I downloaded chrome to try it out and havnt switched back
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fastest, cleanest browser around. Give it more time

Pros: Very fast. Clean user interface. The omnibox offers customizable shortcuts to search the engine of your choice (type "wp" to search a topic on wikipedia, "amz" to search amazon, etc.). Splitting a tab into a new window is easy and useful.

Cons: Extensions API isn't complete so not all extensions are available yet (notably missing is a good implementation of RoboForm). Some websites don't work in Chrome, but not Chrome's fault. mailto hyperlinks don't open gmail; seems like an oversight.

Review: I have used all of these browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. In my opinion, Chrome is easily the best native browser; it is certainly the fastest. I see that many Firefox users complain that Chrome does not offer as many extensions, which may be true, but the speed of Chrome outweighs the lack of extensions for me. Extensions support is available (contrary to other, possibly older, reviews). The only extension that I use religiously is RoboForm, and its integration is coming. There is already a version available but RoboForm did a poor job of implementing it... look at the Google Chrome extensions page for RoboForm, you'll see what I mean! Extensions management seems easier to me than Firefox.

The Omnibox is much easier to use than the two-box method of FF, IE, and Opera. They don't seem to advertise it very well, but you can add numerous search engines and give them custom keywords to easily search a specific site. I added some common ones: Wikipedia (wp), eBay (ebay), Amazon (amz), Google Maps (maps), Google News (news) etc. So searching becomes very fast:
- wp Something (searches wikipedia for "something")
- amz Something (searches Amazon for "something")
- etc.

It is unfortunate that this searching functionality isn't more well-known. It is much faster than the two-box method where you have to click, then select the search engine, then type.

I read one review that said bookmark management needs work; I don't understand that review at all. I have no problems with bookmarks. Chrome has built-in bookmark sync, which is nice. I also very much like the History searching and file download implementations; much better than other browsers.

My one complaint is that google did not add an option that makes "mailto" links open with Gmail (or another choice of web-based browser). I mean really; who is using desktop-based email these days? There is an extension that makes mailto links open in gmail, but it doesn't always work based on the frames of the webpage where the link is located; if Google had implemented their own mailto handler there would be tighter integration with their products. They should have done this.

Overall, a terrific browser.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fastest, Lightest, Most usable and simplest Ultra Speed

Pros: The Fastest browser.

Cons: Nothing at all makes me annoying Except come little features I have been using within Firefox.

Review:
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Chrome is simplicity itself.

Pros: Google Chrome is a simple, fast, stylish and easy web browser, it gives outstanding results for who tries it, with its speed and simply shape, it gets over populated than IE and mostly because IE has to load toolbars and extensions etc which slows it

Cons: Google chrome is recommended, its user-friendly, easy to use, easy to connect and unlike the internet explorer, Chrome loads the home page, whatever it is, much faster than Internet Explorer.

Review: Google Chrome is an ideal product for people who want speed, it loads extremely fast, even though many people using Microsoft Windows Vista face problems using it, but for Windows XP and Windows 7 its just perfect.
Speed, style, themes, extensions, quick updates and tabs, those just make Google Chrome ideal for users.
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

I like it now, may get bored and go back to Firefox

Pros: Never crashes...very rare that it happens
Screen stays large for web, not used up by toolbars and crap
Keeps things simple

Cons: Unable to email a web page or site simply, cannot just click on a spot on toolbar and send it...I have had to copy & paste the address inside an email.
Simplicity also has cons...not able to add new toolbars or many selections to the present toolbar

Review: I like Chrome because it seems faster and trouble free when I compare to IE or FireFox...they always seemed to be crashing or freezing my computer. With Chrome I think that happened once in about 4 months and it only took a second or two to fix; no rebooting required. I like that my 19" screen is filled with what I am looking at online and not taken by 6" or more of toolbars and other items...I used to hate that amount of space that IE & FireFox used while the web site I was viewing kept shrinking. The downloads are quick and easy to get to. Overall I am very happy with Chrome though I would like to see some changes. My biggest issue is the lack of ability to quickly send a site to someone...either I am missing it or there is no where to just click on the toolbar and email the page. I have been copying & pasting to an open email note and though that isn't hard, being able to just click on a spot is better. Chrome will save passwords for you and the bookmark editor is fine.

Updated on Jan 24, 2010

Oh...I forgot to say that I absolutely love searching in the address bar

User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

What Ive Been Waiting for

Pros: FAST, stable, secure, intuitive, did i mention it is FAST, simple

Cons: it is new so the look and feel take a while to get used to

Review: This Web browser is the fastest that iv used in a long time. having used it in Windows and now on my MacBook Pro i am hooked. i like that if a tab goes down you dont lose the whole browser, just that tab, saves alot of time and effort, also it starts fast. there are some compatibility issues but that is mostly because it is relatively new. i watch videos on it, use Facebook, sign up for my classes, play games, and buy things all at the same time with no problem. because it does refer many tasks to the CPU however it can slow down some other apps that are open but normally it is not enough for me to notice. also, if there is a plugin that fails, it wont take down the whole site, just that one thing, so if you are on YouTube and the Flash videos plugin fails, you can still click links on the page, you just cant watch the video. overall i find that the GUI is amazing. the idea of each tab being its own window was a great idea. it makes the whole browser more intuitive. and best of all i dont need a million add ons to make it do what i want. i start it up and i can change the theme and otherwise it just works. no huge toolbars or 100 buttons most of which ive clicked once to see what they do. there is a back, forward, reload, home, bookmark, and go button along with the Omnibox, below that are your bookmarks, that is all. it makes perfect sense, why would you want any others? the omnibox also makes sense, it is an address box and an all in one search box wrapped into one long box at the top. you can search google, youtube, amazon, ebay, or any other site youve searched on before right from that one box. its a great new feature. i really dont see why anyone would want to use any other browser.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Chrome or Firefox?

Pros: super fast
excellent pop up blocker
GOOGLE
runs google things (Gmail Google Docs etc) relly fast

Cons: not as customizable as Firefox
uses more memory than Firefox

Review: the pop up blocker makes it better than firefox. although firefox and Google Chrome run at about the same speed.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Amazing.. Just amazing

Pros: - Fast
- Simple to use
- Easy to learn
- Quick to navigate through
- Google search in the address bar
- Spell Check

Cons: its toooo good

Review: Amazing program, defiantly worth it. I use it instead of Internet Explorer or any other browser.. just amazing!
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast, slick, great, clean, and just plain awesome.

Pros: Fast, slick design, themes, big screen for viewing pages, made by Google, task manager, no full crashes (yet), omnibar, Incognito mode, and about everything else I haven't said.

Cons: Weak bookmark management, few customization abilities, and minimal (practically none) security.

Review: The slickest, and fastest web browser by far the best at loading videos. It has only crashed once, when I had a nasty little virus, which got removed by AVG. In Firefox, you always have full crashes when it crashes, on the upside, you get to recover the tabs. The downside to that is once in Firefox, I had to many tabs going, and when I loaded it again, it kept crashing until I found that it had reached it's limit (21 tabs on my laptop). So, I just decided to drag some tabs into separate windows, but, as I like to keep a clean task bar, as I closed some tabs, I can't put it back in. With Chrome, you can drag tabs into their own windows, and here's where a cool part is. You can not only just drag them back into the original window, but say you have 3 Chrome windows open, you can take a page, by the tab, and drag it into another window of Chrome (not just the first one). You can do the same thing with rearranging tabs, vice-versa. I also found an amazing glitch where I can take a Firefox tab, and drag it into Chrome, and it will still run (but when I refresh that page, or go to another page in that same tab, it says it can't work). But, it's still great alone. Now, the speed, blazing fast, even faster than Firefox and Safari (and duh, faster than Internet Explorer). As you can see, this obviously means faster video loading, and page loading. Clearly, I no longer have to pause during a video, or wait at the beginning to load (don't you just hate to wait for it to load). As it is very slick, it needs no describing, for it is very easy to use, and to work with. The omnibar is very useful, for it's like Firefox's, it searches through your history and bookmarks. The Incognito mode is useful if you like to snoop around the web and buy Christmas presents, and not let anyone know what you got. But, just don't show your kids that, or they'll be viewing all sorts of stuff their not supposed to see, and you won't know about it. But, it's basically a stealth window, but since Google will track your history, could it still send it off to a marketing-research company? Even if it does, at least it won't be stored on the computer. Google has now made themes (only for Chrome) that are available at: https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html. It is a great product all in all, and I totally recommend it.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Good Bye Firefox! You Did Me Wrong...

Pros: Fast and Stable...great!

Cons: Yeah....none so far.

Review: IT IS FAST AND STABLE....period! That's it, you don't need stupid addons and all those bells and whistles. All of which bog down your browser. What counts is having pages load quickly, watching streaming video without it lagging, etc. Who cares about stupid fancy skins designed by Teenagers? I surely don't. I want a browser that WORKS! That's it! Firefox is a fat, over loaded, junky piece of crap now. Actually, this is an important fact about Firefox today...it's original development team jumped ship because they didn't like the direction Firefox was going...ENOUGH SAID!

Back to Chrome. Chrome is somewhat resource heavy, opening each tab as a separate process. It's essential to the overall performance of the browser which makes it faster and prevents crashes. Also, unless you're working on an old computer with very little RAM and space, it shouldn't matter. Compare opening 6 separate Tabs in Chrome and six in Firefox, then work on both for about 20 - 30 minutes opening different sites in each tab and watch as Firefox's memory usage climbs to whopping levels and Chrome's initially higher usage stays relatively stable. That my friends is called good computing!

Give me something predictable that works and doesn't test my patience. The google team have offered that. Good Job You Evil Controlling almost Fascist Geeks! You made the trains run on time...HA!
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

And I thought Internet Explorer was terrible!

Pros: streamlined interface. is great when it WORKS! no other pros!

Cons: to many to list; crashes, freezes, web pages stall and freeze up when loading, the Adobe Flash Player CONSTANTLY crashes, some function is failing at any given moment, no built-in google search (weird), no personal info autofill. DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!

Review: Trust me you'll thank me later for this review! The people who made and programed Google Chrome should go back to college, because this internet browser is a PIECE OF ****!!! I can't find any reasons to like this web browser. It's ALWAYS CRASHING! There's an error message of some kind at any given minute saying something crashed or isn't working properly. Like on Facebook, for example, the pop-up chat window WON'T OPEN! Has anyone else had this problem, because this happens to me EVERY SINGLE DAY! I've found the problem is only associated with Google Chrome. The Adobe Flash Player crashes constantly for no apparent reason. There is also an error message that appears frequently that says "unknown plugin failed" and offers an option to kill the "unknown plugin!" Another thing, if you're browsing 7+ web pages at the same time, the web pages will freeze up and/or load unbelievably slowly. One feature suspiciously absent is the built-in web search bar. WHY?! How could the Google people be so stupid as to not include a google search into there own web browser?! It also doesn't have autofill, a useful feature that would've been welcomed. It was a terrible internet browser that I will NEVER download again! Don't download Mozilla Firefox either! You'll grow a beard waiting for it to start up and the web pages freeze if too many are open at one time! Download Apple Safari, it's the only dependable web browser I've tried so far!
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Best Browser To Date!

Pros: Clean, Simple, Fast, Secure, Uncluttered.... and its Google.

Cons: None what so ever.

Review: Got tired of all the icons, add-ons and business of other sites Like Firefox over Internet Explorer, but then I discovered Google Chrome. I'm set. And knowing Google, it will probably only get better in time. Why would you want anything other than Google products?
User Rating:
1.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

It is pretty slow compared to IE 6, I am using

Pros: It is good to have the monapoly of IE broken

Cons: But I will continue with IE, till Chrome's speed improves

Review: I dont use much features. I find this slower tha IE
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Easy to use, beutiful, simple, and best of all: FAST

Pros: Blazing fast (this includes start up, downloads, loading web pages, etc.)

Its fun to use

They use easy to understand terms for eveything (such as the aw snap this link is broken one)

Cons: it doesn't have add-ons, but I haven't missed them that much because most of the add-ons I had for firefox slowed it down, and are already included with the normal chrome package

Review: Chrome is a blazing fast web browser that works very smartly and efficiently. I love the omni-bar, the ability to drag tabs around, the ability to make desktop icons that will open things like gmail without having to open the browser, I love the fact that I can have to windows on either side of the screen at one time, the easy to get to settings, the bookmarks tabs, the opening screen, and the way it handles downloads. Overall its an amazing browser, and I'm using it right now to write this review
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

great product

Pros: 1) sleek design
2)incognito mode
3)maximum web page view

Cons: 1) lacks a lot of features and ad ons

Review: I enjoy this product because it is fairly simple except for ad ons and incognito gives you privacy(via incognito) which is really helpful for me since i use a computer with a lot of users. Incognito,however does not record history so it can be a hassle finding your sites.May i suggest password protection or signing in for each user of the browser so incognito would not be necessary.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

I love it!!!!

Pros: Very Fast, Good, Simple, Grest browser !!!!

Cons: Add-ons: maybe if you are Firefox user you will miss a lot of add-ons that you use diarily.

Review:
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

great browser for those who love adult websites....

Pros: chrome is great because it faster than fire fox , also it has alot of great features,one of them being the spy blocker...in which hides a web site you visit from prying eyes...also keeping it hidden from being resurrected...by others

Cons: the browser, has no cons....as far as im concerned...,but if there any im sure there working on it , and getting better

Review: this is a good browser for everyone in the family , and web search is fast .. and nice looking , and easy to use.....and user friendly,i strongly recommend this as a alternative browser...
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fantastic browser

Pros: This browser is as fast as Opera or Safari and uses less space on your screen. it is an extremely easy-to-use browser and fairly intuitive for beginning Internet users.

Cons: I'm not fond of having to open a new tab for bookmarks. I also do not like having the bookmark menu open as this defeats the purpose of having a streamlined look. That's the biggest complaint.

Review: it's a great browser with a lot of great features. Although it should have some add-ons and plug-ins like Firefox. Other than that it will probably become my main browser instead of Firefox or any of the others just because a streamlined appearance and speed.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Went through three different browsers

Pros: Quick, Great Design, No Lag, Simple Controls

Cons: None found

Review: I've used Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari. They were all too slow for me. Until I came across Chrome. Everything turned up right. The moment I installed it and starting running it, everything came up 10x faster than my latest Safari.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Chrome 2 Silent (Website Audio Background Not Heard)

Pros: Faster; much better control over options

Cons: The ability to play background audio on websites that have audio seems to have disappeared; hopefully this is only temporary

Review:
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

NEED A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT!

Pros: SPEED
Productivity
Simple Design!

Each Tab Acts on a Separate environment

Cons: NO ADDONS!
Security Issues
Privacy Issues

BUGS!?

NO Customization

Review: Google need to put some serious work into this browser!!

Although it needs addons, i doubt that it will ever challenge the addon king FIREFOX! instead Google SHOULD use its Muscles ($$$) to try and get Chrome with its skeel design PREINSTALLED on PC alongside IE so it can take down that CRAP of a browser called IE (though Ie8 might not be that bad)
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

One of the Best browser i've ever used

Pros: Chrome is a very simple browser with ability to view history pages, and fav pages easily. Very easy to use, and faster than any other browsers like IE, Firefox, or even Safari.

Cons: Not much problem, but sometimes I couldn't get through or over some application, or java.

Review: It is fast and furious + ability to denied cookies and history by using incognito windows gives Chrome a very special A++++++
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Very Good, But Needs Features

Pros: Super Fast Browsing

Cons: Not many features or addons

Review:
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Really fast browser

Pros: Its really fast, opening tabs is fun and really easy, simple to use, better than internet explorer, also fast and easy to download. No viruses!

Cons: none so far

Review: this is a really fast browser. faster than internet explorer 7 which i used to use. its fun to use also. download it! its fast, free, and cool
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Very smooth, fast, and sexy

Pros: -Slick interface
-Very sexy
-SUPER FAST javascript engine
-Loads pages extremely fast
-Neat little features

Cons: Not as many options as other browsers, but most people don't need all of those other things.

Review: Very nice browser, my favorite. It's interface is sexy and it works perfectly. It also has an extremely fast javascript engines, and can load pages instantly. It also has some neat little features, and overall the experience is amazing. I use chrome for deafalt web browser. Its little features include neat things like spell check, and highlighting boxes your typing in. In the main address bar it bolds the main website part of the address, and it even has little symbols for telling you if a site is safe or not. You can even save passwords on any site. It's the sexy smooth interface and the little features that really make chrome brilliant. LOVE IT WITH MY HEART AND SOUL!!!!!!
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Chrome: Crown for Google

Pros: Sleek, decent, efficient and simple design, fast browsing, "Incognito window" for private browsing ; ), Task manager within the browser, "Close tabs opened by this tab" feature, "Close tab to the right" feature.

Cons: No "Undo close" feature
individual Photos display

Review: No "Undo close" feature using mouse but still we can do "undo close" by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+T,
Individual Photos display:-
Lets take up this situation, a set of photos are opening on a page during a bad network connection and most of the photos are half or partially displayed, in firefox if we right clicked on the half displayed photo and select "view image" the photo will be opened in another window/tab and can be downloaded individually by refreshing that window/tab. this is not available in Chorme.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

excellent browser do not miss it

Pros: loads sites more faster and has a simple look.

Cons: downloading speed is not enough.

Review: Excellent browser
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

chrome rocks

Pros: Download was easy and instructions for use is easy (for us computer illiterates)
Faster than IE

Cons: Doesn't work with all web pages
Rearranged by favorites after importing into bookmarks

Review: I downloaded both Firefox and Chrome. After failing with a Firefox plugin (it wouldn't load my homepage because it wouldn't let me download and run Flash Player plugin) I tried with Chrome and lickety split my home page was open and most other pages I tried. I really like this. It may not be as fast as Firefox but it's better and IE.
User Rating:
1.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Impressive but lack many features

Pros: Good start!

Cons: Impressive but lack many features provided by other browsers FF, Safari, Opera.

Review: It is impressive but lack many features provided by other browsers Firefox, Safari, Opera. Good starts but lots of thing need to improve.

Thanks,
Rakesh,
Debaira
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Too basic & no extra features, IE8 is better.

Pros: none to my liking
it works well on Youtube(go figure)
tab to window & window to tab feature

Cons: runs too slow on 512MB of RAM
no ad-ons
dont like the tabs at the top
dont like google search & i cant put live search or alltheinternet.com as my perferred search engine
doesnt work with the vista skins i have installed on my XP

Review: I uninstalled the browser after about 20min & went back to IE8 which offers most all the same features plus many more, its more secure & it works with my vista skin. I reccomend IE8
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

My preference

Pros: Fast loading. Feature Rich. Easy Navigating, Stealth Browsing

Cons: I wish Adobe would come out with a browser so I could read my web pages the same way I read a pdf.

Review: This is my preferred browser. It still is not as easy to read an html document as it is to read a pdf document. In pdf I can grab with a hand and move my page up and down.
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Lots of potential-But still a work in progress

Pros: Easy to download and install; faster and more stable than IE. Nifty bookmark and spell check features.

Cons: Primitive ad blocking functionality with limited add-ons; User interface not everyone's cup of tea; some applications won't work with it.

Review: I'm growing tired of my buggy, crash prone Internet Explorer so wanted to try something new, so I decided to give Chrome a try just out of curiosity. The download was a snap. It installed quickly and easily and even automatically imported my bookmark list from IE without problems.

The first thing I noticed, was the clean, simple user interface. In reading other reviews people seem to either love it or hate it, but I have to say I love it. It's simple, with the basic features to hand, allowing more viewing area in the window. One thing though: there is no button to return you to your home page, but this is easily remedied by placing it on the bookmark bar.

The bookmark bar is a nifty feature that allows you to specify the sites you visit most and access them with one click. Another great thing is it comes with a spell check, something IE should have included long ago. Most of the major programs, such as Windows Media, Real Player and Flash work with it easily. If, however, you're addicted to MSN games, like I am, you've got a problem. They're incompatible with Chrome. Now, granted Firefox users complain about the same problem, it seems a bit silly in this day and age for a browser not to be able to access certain applications.

Another gripe is ad blocking functionality. There is plenty of third party applications out there to block at least the most annoying ads, but few have, of yet, been written for Chrome. One simple program, called Adblock + is a Java add-in which gets placed in our bookmark list. When you access a site you click it from the bookmark list and it blocks the ads. This is a nuisance, because the flash applications you might want are inaccessible. The only other decent application seems to be a program called Privoxy, which you basically need a degree in electronics to install and use. I downloaded it, followed the instructions, but cannot get it to work with Chrome. About the only thing that comes with Chrome is a popup blocker that does OK, but I would have wished for more. Another annoyance is that it lets in a ton of cookies and other adware. The settings allow you to restrict the functionality of certain cookies, but does not tell you how they are restricted.

All in all, Chrome is a good program, but it has a ways to go before it becomes great. Once more add-ins, such as a decent ad blocker are written for it, and better handling of cookies and malware, I think I'll be going back to my buggy, crash-prone IE for a while, until Chrome evolves a bit more into the excellent browser it has the potential of becoming.
User Rating:
1.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Google Chrome Blog

Pros: Nothing its crashed on me a number of times.
I am now using Fire Fox

Cons: Dislike the fact that it has crashed on me about 3 times this week, and I lost data for work.

Review: Someone needs to let Fire Fox do there job, Google stick to Blogs and Google News.

http://www.webupon.com/Browsers/Google-Chrome.591755
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

very good browser

Pros: perfect web browser.

Cons: perfect web browser. i like chrome.

Review:
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

A great relief from overly-cluttered browsers

Pros: It's very fast, and isn't a memory hog most of the time. The interface is easy to use - and easy to get used to. The frequently visited sites page is great.

Cons: Since it's Safari-based, not all pages work like they would with Internet Explorer or Explorer-based browsers. The bookmarks system could be better

Review: I tried Chrome briefly when it was first released, and went back to Avant browser promptly. But when Avant got frustratingly slow, I switched back to Chrome. I still have to use Avant for sites that need IE. But for the most part I haven't touched it since. Chrome is just so refreshing to use. It doesn't have a whole lot of bells and whistles that other browsers do, but for just simply browsing the net, Chrome is top-notch.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Great Browser with plenty of muscle

Pros: Fast! Fast! Fast!
Right after booting up windows, clicking the chrome icon brings up the browser in less than 5 seconds. Very clean and simple interface

Cons: None to speak of really... It's a good option for browsing. Definitely a contender to fight firefox. Internet Explorer is now officially a joke and is in a distant 3rd place.

Review: With firefox it takes roughly a minute to bring a browser up. I do have a few add-ons but seriously a minute to load the Google homepage is bad. FINALLY BOOKMARK TOOLBAR!!! I couldn't use google chrome until that became an option. The bookmark bar is all I need and I'm set. The clean fascia and it's essentially more secure than IE and the only thing more secure would be sand boxing which is a great tool for surfing anonymously.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Worse browser to date.

Pros: None to be said about.

Cons: The thing is SLOW. Crashes a lot, I had to execute the process before finally deciding to uninstall it. Simple design is almost to simple.

Review: This is not ready for primetime. Stick with firefox.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Google Chrome Crashes Crashes Crashes

Pros: Fastest browser I've ever used. This thing is snappy.

Cons: It crashes every time I try to add an attachment in Gmail--a problem they had before they took it out of beta. I can't believe they didn't listen to all of the people who reported this problem.

Review: This product should have stayed in beta until they worked out the bugs. I can't use it as my primary browser because I'm sick of retyping long emails. Shame, too. Everything else about the browser is great.
User Rating:
1.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Browser is very unoriginal, rip off of IE and firefox.

Pros: Easy to use.

Cons: Very poor structure and slower browser than IE. Firefox has cooler gadgets like ad block. I prefer IE and Firefox hands down.

Review: Like I said, chrome browser in my opinion is not worth downloading.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

It's very nice ... very lite.. very quick it is perfect

Pros: it is very good but i can see that in mail it can't respond to the keyboard short cut .. this is not good but it is perfect every where else ;)

Cons: it is opens faster than any other browser i have ever saw ..

Review:

Updated on Jan 7, 2009

i can say that the idea of having tabs that drag into new window is perfect ;)

User Rating:
1.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

ok
Loved the idea. super easy browsing and fast

Pros: Loved interface and the idea of having your favorite websites all right in front of you.
And its fast. Security is terrible though!

Cons: Security is terrible! surfed with it and picked up ad ware, malware, trojan. Have windows vista. Had to clean my computer after using with antivirus. Use Firefox!

Review: I love it except for the security issues. Won't use it again until it is up to par with firefox
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast, small, stable. Great browser!

Pros: Independent tab processes are great for security and stability! Multi-threading aspect allows you to load multiple flash and javascript-filled windows simultaneously and loads them without you having to babysit each one. Expandable text boxes--YES!

Cons: I don't like the look of the Gui. Google ought to leave the standard windows menu bar at the top of the screen in order to allow it to conform to the "windows look" better. Also, the merged address bar and search box, takes some time to get used to.

Review: The browser loads up instantaneously on my newer computers and a heck of a lot faster on the older ones, compared to Firefox 3.x, Safari 3.x, or IE 7.x. It loads webpages significantly quicker especially when multiple content-heavy pages are loaded simultaneously. Despite my dislike for the browser's default look, I admit that Chrome makes me forget about the browser and focus on content. I love some of the little innovations that Google incorporated such as expandable text boxes and independent system processes.

Rendered webpages look similar to Firefox and are almost as appealing to the eye as IE's. Most every keyboard shortcut is similar to Firefox making the switch remarkably uneventful. But the "Omnibox" url bar takes some getting used to. I kept hitting tab when I wanted to search in order to get to the nonexistent search box. When text size is too small, Chrome has wisely chosen to include a zoom function which only zooms in on text rather than the entire webpage like IE.

Overall, I am won over by its lightning fast speed and low system resource use. Aside from a few quibbles regarding interface and windows conformity issues, I definitely recommend this product.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Great Browser for Speed and Better :) Over IE

Pros: Fast, Faster and the Fastest.
This is definitely faster then Mozilla. Sleek look and the separately thinking tabs.

Cons: No addons.

Review: This is a very, very good browser over IE 7 because it's faster. If all that you look for is speed and could care less about personalizing it then this is your browser. After using this I did switch to Firefox and liked the addon function. For me it went IE>Chrome>Firefox. Still, if I didn't care that much about my browser then I would still be using Chrome.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast and clean interface...

Pros: In my opinion, the fastest browser today in the market for Windows.

Cons: No add-ins.

Review:

Updated on Jan 15, 2009

Unfortunately, no support for RSS.

User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

This browser is very fast; almost never crashes.

Pros: Very fast. seems seamless. Ever since it was launched, hardly any site has crashed on my computer. It has many new features like 'new tab', tabbed windows separated from each other etc. Great improvement over Internet Explorer that I previously used.

Cons: None at all, at least right now.

Review: I simply love it. The browser built to work and it does so perfectly. The simplicity is mind blowing and its interface is subtle and non-distracting. May God bless its creators!
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Spectacular

Pros: Very fast with version 0.4 or higher. Very easy to use interface.

Cons: No add-ons.

Review: Although overhyped in the beginning, Chrome, with the release of version 0.4, is now a top contender. Google has already stated that they are FAR from done with it so keep looking at this one.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Amazing!!! The best web browser I have ever used!

Pros: The fastest web browser I have ever used. Very stylish. Has a built in spell check.

Cons: None so far

Review: Amazing

Updated on Nov 23, 2008

The only con about it is that it only works on PC not Macs but there making it updating it for Macs.

User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Overall a great browser!!!

Pros: Sleek looking, easy to use, a lot of convenient shortcuts, fast

Cons: Honestly, I don't have any cons

Review: There are a lot of great features in this browser. When you start up the browser, there are little pictures of your most visited sites that you can click on to go there. Of course,
you can change the homepage to whatever you like. When you type in a web address or search, it will have a drop down menu of possible matches, for example you type goo a drop down will appear with google.com. If you don't want your web pages to go into the history all you have to do is click on the "incognito" option and that easy you have complete privacy. I have been using this browser for months now and I must say I don't have one complaint. Overall this is a great browser!!!
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Still have some problems but you get to like it

Pros: it is really fast and very simple to use, the tab settings are just great, also the low memory usage is a plus

Cons: some mayor problems whit the bookmarks management, also hotmail doesnt like it very much, other big problem for some (me included) is that some video websites like youtube doesnt work properly

Review: If you use to like nestcape youll definetly will like chrome, because it has all the good points but none of the flaws, it still have some things that must be check, but for a beta version you dont expect everything to be 100% one of the thing I liked the most its the fact that you can grab a tab and make it a new window, if you havent try Chrome you should
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Sleek, fast, big screen!

Pros: sleek
quite fast (faster than firefox)
minimal toolbar with integrated search engin
big big screen
anonymous surf window

Cons: apprently not too many add-ons, then I dont really need them...

Review: waiting for the Mac version for my home
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Good Performance...But No Add Ons

Pros: The speed and reliability.

Cons: There are no add ons.

Review: This is a good, sleek, simple browser. Since it is still in beta, I can't wait for it to come out for real...as Google has promised add-ons. It is also a great upgrade over IE (Anything is).
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Great slick browser!

Pros: Great, slick browser. Better administration and simpler use of favorites would have given a 5 star review.

Cons: Need better handling of the favorites and the favorites should be compatible with other browsers or web 2.0 services!

Review: Sharp and lightning fast browser, great!
User Rating:
2.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Strange !! strange !! strange !!

Pros: Very nice browser.

Cons: when downloading pictures the format can't be opened as videos or pictures in windows xp and maybe other operating systems. also for some reason when accessing some web pages the actuator arm on my harddrive goes nuts and pulses like crazy.

Review: knowing that it's in beta at the moment. can't wait for the kinks to get worked out because this browser is very appealing.
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

A Minimalist Browser For faster Browsing

Pros: This is a good web browser. It has excellent speed and good download time. It has a very stream-lined interface.

Cons: When testing the beta, I found that it could unexpectedly close when navigating tabs. I assume that this problem will be fixed in the final version. Another was that the minimalist initerface could make finding tools difficult.

Review: Google has produced a nice browser. It has a nice large vewing area (which is slightly smaller than IE7's,) a nice blue color scheme and quick browsing. I found, however, that on the system I was testing it on that it was slower browsing than Internet Explorer 7's. The security was average, nothing spectacular. I would recommend that those who are interested in secure browsing go with Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3. The streamlined interface makes for easy browsing, but finding tools is difficult.
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

If all you want is SPEED this is it!

Pros: Simple and clean (uncluttered) browser.

Cons: No add-ons but that's OK. All i need is the speed i don't get out of IE or Firefox

Review: Fast, just like Safari 3
User Rating:
2.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Awesome, but fatally flawed

Pros: Chrome is lightning fast, extremely easy to use, and one of the most friendly, intuitive programs I've ever used. Things like remembering what pages you had open are just super. It beats Microsoft's IE and Firefox on almost every feature.

Cons: No field autofill. PDF files cannot be viewed but must be downloaded. Form resubmission message that pops up every once in a while causes you to lose info on the page. There are things you expect, like a better bookmark management, that aren't there.

Review: It's still Beta and it's way past time that it should have been Beta. The potential is extremely high, but who wants to keep betting on a horse that could easily be in the money but keeps running in 4th place. There are too many fatal flaws to be your default browser. Then there are the missed opportunities that you would expect to see from Google that aren't there; bookmark management as I already mentioned, is a good example.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Not the expected big hit.

Pros: light, very light

Cons: nothing new, no addons, serious security flaws.

Review: I hope released version differs from this one, finally.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Boring wannabe that was made to make google feel good

Pros: i can surf the internet

Cons: plain and lacking imagination.

Review: if you want to surf in style with never ending add-ons and continually added enhancements then go with Firefox. Google does not need to own everything. They are becoming another Microsoft.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Amazing Browser: Efficient, Fast, & Easy!!!

Pros: Simply start typing into the address bar, and unlike Firefox, which has "suggestions" that you have to click on, simply press enter, and it will AUTOFILL your site!
Also, simply type a search query into the address bar, and get instant results

Cons: Not yet available for other platforms.

Review: If you just want to get on the internet, and look at your email, or facebook, or just surf, this is the QUICKEST, easiest, and most efficient- as long as you can go without the (honestly- POINTLESS!) add-ons like in FireFox!!!
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

wonderful browser

Pros: simple
beautiful
fast
what a browser should be

Cons: no add-ons
still hard to get used to

Review: my favorite browser. i have firefox, ie, opera, and flock all on my computer and chrome is the most efficient of all of them. fairly simple although it is kind of hard to ween off my firefox addiction because im used to all the short cuts. but this is an amazing browser and should be released for linux. i dual-boot vista and linux on my computer so it would be nice to use it for both.
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Simple but almost too simple

Pros: Simple, clean and easy to use interface, incognito mode, ultra fast, good new tab features.

Cons: Poor bookmarking management, no extensions or add-ons, lack of customization or advanced settings, almost too simple.

Review: Good browser with some awesome new features but is also lacking some basic expected features like add-ons, decent bookmark manager and full customization and advanced settings.
User Rating:
2.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

I used to love it, but...

Pros: I love the look and the functionality of it, and how you can search from the address bar.

Cons: It doesn't run plug-ins like Flash or Shockwave well, it only seems to run Quicktime. And it was fast for a while, but has slowed down for me in the past few days.

Review: I'm going back to Opera. Chrome has some similar features and I like the look of it, but Opera still has my vote on being the best and is still faster on my paticular PC.
User Rating:
2.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

no google toolbar

Pros: slick, quick

Cons: no google toolbar. duh squared

Review:
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fastest Browser

Pros: Fastest browser on the market. No crash for a tab caused by other tabs

Cons: no found cons

Review:
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Though Good Initially

Pros: Faster opening of web pages, browsing is faster, sleek and soft in looks and design.

Cons: Not meant for online gaming. Online games cannot be played with ease as the browser hangs for short durations of intervals.

Review: Thought it may be good for browsing purpose, but this definitely cannot be the expected final version of Google's Browser. They definitely need to launch their next higher version if they want to compete with Microsoft in performance as Google Chrome's Performance is "Good" but it is not what the users expected for Google's products to be.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Google should stick to Search

Pros: None , it a good key logger

Cons: Very sure its a key logger.
Google should really respect a user right to privacy , this product clearly sends a message we do not care about privacy all we care is how we can get $$ for everytime one surfs the web.

Review:
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

An extremely good browser

Pros: Extremely good browser, very 'bare-bones' (which I like), easy to use, even faster than Firefox 3 without plugins installed and even the latest Minefield with Tracemonkey

Cons: I don't like that there is no 'sort by name' function on the bookmarks menu, don't like that there isn't a click on button (at least that I have found) to bring up the bookmarks menu

Review: This is an extremely good browser, even as a beta version. There are a few rough edges and a few things missing that I think should be included, but other than that.... almost perfect!
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Great, simple browser.

Pros: Simplicity, Good user experience and easy to get started with

Cons: No addons, not many configuration possibilities.

Review: A interesting competitor in the browser battle.
Overall i find the browser great if you just use the browser to browse. Tho hardcore users might stick with Firefox or Opera and people who don't care with IE. I still prefer.
User Rating:
1.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Faster and I feel this browser is overrated

Pros: Very light product. Good real estate management for the User Interface.
Starts new process for each tab so kind of crash proof.

Cons: The incognito mode is not really secret as you might think.
Check my comments below

Review: On the whole,the browser is clean and looks very light but using it for 3 days now,I can point some of it very serious flaws.

Firstly,the incognito mode doesnt work as advertised.if you render anything like a video file
in chrome,it gets recorded in your internet explorer history.
I am saying this becaus eI used it to watch some porn and I discovered that my wife can see
the sites I visited just by checking the inernet explorer.

Secondly,anything you download in the incognito mode is stored as well in the default
Download folder in your documents.

So I would advise,if you wanna browse without being watched afterwards,just go the tried and true way of deleting your traces,because this just doesnt work

Honestly,I expected more from the Google core engineers who boast of hiring the best in the industry.
User Rating:
2.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Unnecessary car in race-day lineup

Pros: Not much, sadly no mucho

Cons: Copy-cat of existing browsers

Review: Downloaded, installed, kicked the tires, uninstalled
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fastest browser yet!

Pros: Simple layout

Cons: Frame size does not increase proportionally with text size

Review:
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

elegant, fast, growing every day!

Pros: Chrome is extremely stable and quick for a beta product. Google has a long history of perfecting its software before going live. The interface is elegant and fresh, the tabs work wonderfully, and so far I have not had a single instability issue.

Cons: There are admittedly a lack of features right now, but given the open-source nature of Chrome, I promise you that there will be a robust community of home-brewed add-ons. The future is very promising for Google's new baby!

Review: I see that most of the negative comments here are based around the lack of functionality in comparison with other browsers such as Firefox and Opera. I could be mistaken, but isn't there an option that doesn't allow Google to track your internet usage? I believe that this is probably just for beta testing anyway; it doesn't seem like a violation of privacy. I could be wrong though; i usually am :)

Happy Browsing!! To all the naysayers out there, just give it some time. Google Chrome may very well be the next big thing.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Great Browser, Fast and Okay.

Pros: This product is fast compared to the other browsers I've used. Easy to use and has the essential things in the toolbar.

Cons: May or doesn't work with some plug ins eg. Java. When you scroll on a laptop, you can scroll down but not up and have to use the keyboard arrows.

Review: Over all this product is okay if you want fast internet.

Updated on Apr 10, 2009

Update: The scroll up works now.

User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Looks promising, waiting on full version

Pros: -Great interface!
-I love the integrated address/search bar
-Cool snapshots of recent sites
-Easy favorites adder
-Nice download tracking
-Migrates Firefox preferences and settings well
-Love the pop-up blocking
-No annoying ads all over the pages

Cons: -After opening a few tabs, links get slow
-When the page loads, there is no real indicator of how soon the page will finish

Review: -After opening a few tabs, links get slow--I know they claim this should improve with usage but it is a bit of a drag.

-When the page loads, there is no real indicator of how soon the page will finish there is a semi-circle that rotates to the top left but I like knowing how long it ill take to finish loading the page.

-Love the pop-up blocking--there are some blog sites I love to visit that use like flash pop-ups that cover the entire screen temporarily until you click ignore. Chrome seemed to handle these quite well being that I did not get disturbed once while reading blogs or other sites that use that type of pop-up.

What would be nice is if you can have your most popular/favorite sites you visited like widget -styled to the right of the browser. I have Gmail and a gmail widget would be nice in the browser off to the side while surfing I guess.

Overall: I like it, but I can't say it is a 5 just yet, right now it is about 3 1/4 ready. I can't give it a 4 just yet because it has not wowed me (as Microsoft would say) just yet.
Thanks Google for making life easier online!
User Rating:
1.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Not all that great

Pros: Has a nice interface

Cons: Lacks the menu bar above tabs, and ability to add that.
Doesn't allow me to set "allow cookie for site I visit" and instead forces us to compile a list.
Many more...

Review: I can go on about how many cons there are about this program, if you don't believe me, compare it with Firefox 3, and even Opera.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Love Firefox - Chrome Useless

Pros: There are none at this time.

Cons: Too many to mention. There are bugs galore! Lousy user interface. Can't believe Google released this as a beta. Won't even display images half the time.

Review: Wouldn't switch from Firefox for this piece of junk in a million years.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Super Fast, Just what I needed

Pros: Fast, Simple, Secure, AWESOME

Cons: Windows only for now :-(

Review: Awesome. Enough said
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

So far, so good but.....

Pros: As said, VERY fast and simple to use.

Cons: Didn't like the terms of use but have heard that Google changed them to exclude the "we own whatever you type" clause.

Review: Worked great. Very fast and simple to set up. Found it a bit buggy while using Hulu (no sound) and yahoo games (no applet for it yet) but just for regular surfing it was pretty good.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

So far so good!!!

Pros: Really simple and sleek interface. It does well with tabbed browsing and load up times. Incognito mode is also a cool feature. I really hope that after this goes official, it will be even better than the Beta.

Cons: Lack of expandability for now, other than that I don't see anything wrong with this browser.

Review: This is browser is extremely simple to use and caters to the needs of the daily web surfer. Just as they said, apps that run through the browser load up fast and work efficiently. Given more time, this browser may eclipse Firefox as one of those simple and safe browsers. The program itself loads up quite fast, even faster than Firefox, for me at least and load up times for web pages are also slightly faster. I would highly recommend this browser for anyone looking for an alternative for IE.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Best web browser

Pros: Fastest browser available
Unmatched security thanks to Sandboxing
Fastest browser loading time
Your tabs may crash, but your browser won't

Cons: Still a bit buggy
No addons

Review:
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Absolute Pleasure to use! But still in Beta...

Pros: Very Quick loading of apps and webpages, Neat and non-cluttered look, quick launch, doesn't hog RAM

Cons: Lacks support for a few webpages, sometimes you don't feel like you've clicked a link at all, a few bugs because it is still In BETA!!:S

Review: Absolutely brilliant browser, and an excellent start for Google in the Web Browsing department. Clean, not cluttered interface definitely works in it's favour, and the animations are nice too..

Get it if you want a browser for Web apps and fast browsing, but remember, it's still in beta, so there are quite a few bugs.
I'd say, give it a try, but stick to Firefox until Chrome comes out of beta.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Not So Good When Compared with FireFox

Pros: Not So Good When Compared with FireFox

Cons: Not So Good When Compared with FireFox

Review:

Updated on Sep 4, 2008

UI Looks Very Good . But its not User Friendly

User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

What a power user was looking for

Pros: Neat interface
More "screen real estate" for user
Advanced features like enabling remote search on sites like amazon(this is pretty cool)

Cons: Chrome turns nasty to hog lot of ram space. Base app takes around 3-45MB and an average 15-25 MB per web pages. Since it release the memory as soon as the tab is closed, it shouldnt be a big problem :)

Extensions not supported by this release

Review: Overall, more than satisfied with this browser. Would great if Google can enable extensions in the next release.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

why doesnt anyone see the innovation?

Pros: the radical new approach to security in this browser is great. why cant the other ones be like this?

Cons: not many features and no addons- yet

Review: great well rounded browser worth a try
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

UGH!!!!!!!

Pros: None whatsoever.

Cons: Bookmarks, please!

Review: I imported all my bookmarks from Firefox with no problem. But what do I click on in Chrome to get to them? I searched the whole GUI and there's no way to open the bookmarks!
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

FAST! Best Browser yet

Pros: It is fast and simple. it NEVER hangs and has no bugs to my knowledge, which makes one wonder why it is even called a beta. It contains a user interface that combines simplicity, beauty, and elegance.

Cons: Just released so no add-ons. I trust these will be added in time, though when one is able to zip to web pages, the lack of goodies is barely noticable

Review: Finally google releases a browser. In my opinion they have taken the market by storm. People use google within any browser, why not have a google browser. It also looks as good as ie8 with vista aero( firefox and opera merely have an aero rim) Overall this browser could KO internet explorer, It nearly needs to be marketted
User Rating:
1.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

No Way Hosea - Google will not track my internet useage

Pros: I like Firefox and don't think any of the features are a big deal. I can link web pages on my desktop in Windows, the applications seem old news.

Cons: Google will be tracking everything I do on the web.
Can't customize the browser

Review: This is another move by Google to take over all of the information on the internet. I don't want them tracking my website usage!!! Firefox never crashes for me and the speed is great. I can customize it. If I really want Internet tools on my desktop, I can place the links there.
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Excellent beginning; needs a few things yet/

Pros: Fast, clean, not as much of a memory hog as I first feared; renders some difficult apps & pages quite nicely, including our corporate CRM application (which is designed for IE).

Cons: Still a few bugs in the system: Typing in the Netsuite app consistently fails to redraw properly, which means hitting <Home> or <End> to force the characters to show; control via mouse(which I've used for years in Opera & Firefox) not avai

Review: A very nice beginning, although that is all it is as yet. I will certainly keep an eye on Chrome as it matures.
User Rating:
1.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Simple ... ideal for simpletons

Pros: Functions as advertised

Cons: Yeah, it's sleek. Like a blank piece of paper, it gives users barely anything with which to work. As a regular cleaner of temporary files and browsing history, I have a fervid dislike for its desire to retain information.

Review: Like so many of Google's offerings, it *is*simple. So is a horse compared to a Lamborghini. There are those of us who appreciate browsers that offer us the ability to make our own choices as to how to best use them. I am one of them. If your preferences lean to brain-dead web surfing, Chrome may be an acceptable browser. If you use the web for work, research or acadeemic purposes you will likely find it very frustrating.
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Impressed with speed, ease of adoption

Pros: Sheer speed...from browser load to page load. Tab/frame manipulation and detachment is beautiful. UI is clean and uncluttered. I like the independence of each tab, and the protection it provides between tabs.

Cons: Awaiting third-party extensions.

Review: This will certainly make all browsers better.
User Rating:
2.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

hmm, so so

Pros: funny that windows live wants you to upgrade your browser if you use chrome, its fast alright

Cons: hate it when I have to use different browsers at same time because they're not apt, like chrom inabily to acces this java programhttp://www.gcitrading.com/gci_cfd_charts.htm

Review:
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

just the right size

Pros: speed and interface

Cons: unfamiliar

Review: Some people like to get around town in a big Buick, some even prefer a giant RV.

But for those who would rather pare down and zip around in something like a sports car or BMW M3, THIS IS THE BROWSER FOR YOU!

This is the fundamental opposite of bloatware, and its ability to immediately help you get around faster is excellent testimony that I.E. is in serious trouble.

Chrome is to electric sports car as Internet Explorer is to Greyhound Ticket--it couldn't be more simple.
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast, but few features

Pros: Fast and don't use many computer resources.
Adds more competition on the market.

Cons: Not customizable, I'm using FF3 right now, even sightly slower the lack of addons make it not worth it.
When i tried Chrome I really missed mouse gestures and a sidebar.

Review: I'll keep using FF3 and if Mozilla is right, which I hope so, FF3.1 will be as fast/faster than Chrome.
But a nice option for those still on IE that won't be messing up with addons.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Chrome 80MB Footprint vs IE8 360MB Footprint

Pros: Very fast running heavy Javascript apps like GMail
Search box and URL box combined - very good predictive search of desirable URLs

Cons: I would like to see Firefox incorporate the multi-threaded Javascript engine. Plug-ins come in at the bottom of the screen, and I didn't notice it right away. Plug-ins coming in at the middle of the screen might help me deal with them.

Review: I think Google made this browser for GMail users. Rendering my Inbox on FF3 was taking 2 or 3 seconds, and that's down to one second now. Search my entire Inbox (25,000 message) is lightning fast, huge improvement.
User Rating:
2.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Just a Browser with too many bugs

Pros: Simple and elegant look and feel. Browser doesnt crash

Cons: Most of the web pages are not getting displayed. Had to hit refresh for those pages which didnt get displayed. A few more did not get displayed when they look perfect in IE and Firefox

Review: Simple and elegant look and feel. Browser doesnt crash. Most of the web pages are not getting displayed. Had to hit refresh for those pages which didnt get displayed. A few more did not get displayed when they look perfect in IE and Firefox. Google has to release a fix version soon for users to start using it extensively. Overall it is not as fascinating as expected as a google product.
User Rating:
2.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Do you need a half-baked browser?

Pros: Its fast, and memory cleanup is good - in theory anyways.

Cons: 1) Doesn't work with many websites and plugins.
2) I don't want Google owning all data about my browsing

Review: Stay away from Chrome for now, but watch its progress.
User Rating:
1.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

its Hybrid of Opera + FireFox + IE7 - ve IE8 Features,

Pros: Very well packaged -ve privacy

Cons: You browsing becomes public , Agreement is decieving, none of the browsers says that they own your content when we use firefox, IE or Opera, but CHROME owns and can use my browsing information for there benefit, Goo Damn it.

Review: Let there be some sanity, google is going crazy, every company gives browser for free and that what its meant for... ,,Then my question is who gives Chrome any rights to publish the ads with respect to my content or browsing information .that a complete ********, this argument is enough for me not to use chrome. this is blackmail. I give you free browser and you give me your independence .Features are good but somehow its too boring and obvious..
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Great speed, Interface

Pros: Great speed
Nice desktop thing
Love the google quotes like "nerd stats" :D

Cons: Sites are not supported
Addons are failed

Review: A great browser but not worth the switch
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

The Best Beta so Far

Pros: I have high hopes for Chrome! A lot of reviews here seem as though they are reviewing a complete version of Chrome when you all have to realize that it is a beta version. All the little things that we complain bout should be toward google.

Cons: Still in beta!!!

Review: Chrome will win the browser wars once they add more customization.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Finally!! a Web Browser and not a Feature Browser!

Pros: lack of features... thanks Google!

Cons: not sure I like the application shortcuts

Review: Its a Web Browser people! I am amazed at all the complaints especially about the favorites! come on get your head out of the IE4 hole! favorites don't belong in a Web Browser they belong on the Internet.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Amazing Browser

Pros: -clean interface
-video's run properly on my computer from cnet and other sites (previously they showed up very small not filling hte space designated for them)

Cons: none so far

Review:
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Google should have upgraded Firefox instead.

Pros: The process & memory improvements are good and much needed.

Cons: Adds another browser product to the market already over-saturated with options.
Bookmark management needs improvement.

Review: The process & memory improvements are much needed and all browsers should incorporate some of these ideas. (Some already have.)

Since Google is working so closely with Mozilla they could and should have integrated their improvements into an existing browser instead of making yet another brand. As a web developer I'm already sick to death of making my sites "work" with the various browsers. Chrome is just one more damned thing to deal with, and all because Google couldn't get past the "not invented here" syndrome.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Chrome is buggy, but may survive.

Pros: Clean front end.

Cons: Bookmarks? Hello? How? Oh where are you hiding?

AAARGH! Mouse scroll wheel is scrolling the wrong way! Totally insane and varies by machines! Why oh why did they have to do ANY processing of the mouse wheel? Leave it to the OS for goodness sake!

Review: Summary covers it really.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Can't view a single web page, crashes at launch.

Pros: None. Chrome will not even run.

Cons: Really buggy! Attempting to launch Chrome gives a Windows application hard error.

chrome.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.

Review: I have tried multiple downloads and re-installs of Chrome without any success. The interesting part is even clicking OK to the error, Chrome stays running and displays a folder with a sad face and the words "Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue press Reload or go to another page." When you try to go to another page, the same error occurs. NOT recommended!
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Lacks popular features but fast and innovative

Pros: slick, easy to use, simple, sandboxed tabs, incognito (love that word) mode, has basic versions of most popular tools, open source

Cons: lacks popular features that are present in firefox - i.e. bookmark manager, add-ons, et.c

Review: Should be a really good product in 6 months or so, in the meanwhile, take it as if it were a REAL beta (and most google products are, um ""beta""s). Hope it will inspire competitors to streamline, sandbox and slicken their own browsers too.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

AWESOME BROWSER

Pros: Fast really fast. easy to use. simple and intuitive. surf the web is easier than ever whit Chrome.

Cons: Add-ons: maybe if you are Firefox user you will miss a lot of add-ons that you use diarily.

Review: Chrome is created by Google that means is a browser-search thing, that helps a lot when you surf and search the web, when you type a word in the address box pages come intuitively I love it. cons add-ons this is a weak point but you can live without them.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Overall a great browser, despite lack of features.

Pros: Fast, clean look, multithreaded ability, security.

Cons: Lack of features (addons, themes, etc), only a beta.

Review: This is a great browser. The best thing is that its a beta, meaning that in time its only going to get better. I highly recommend this browser!
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Freaking fast, yet simple

Pros: Everything

Cons: Absolutley nothing

Review: Omnibox. When I first used a browser, I asked myself why we need to use different boxes for searching and address purpouses??? Even tho some people don't like it, I find it really natural. In the future they will look back at us, and will laugh at the fact that we used different boxes, for what in the end work for the same purpouse.

Bookmarks. Even tho Chrome doesn't have a bookmark engine as roubst as the one found in mozilla, if you use Chrome correctly it's even more powerful than any other browser so far.

Imagine that you need to send some information regarding a school project, which is a mix of docs, xsl, pdfs, and web pages. You can put all the files in a folder, but not the web pages as such, you will need to write the URLs in a doc. That way the bookmark capability as powerful as you want of a browser, comes down to nothing. Even worst, if you write down the URLs in a doc, it will be virtually impossible to find a particular page if you use the info in another PC, you will need to write some info before the URL in the same doc to remember what it was about, open it to search what you want, and still you wont be able to find it directly from the OS search engine.

Well this is fixed with the "application shortcut" that comes with Chrome. Even tho it's called application shortcut, you can basicly save any webpage with that tool, and then send it to any folder in any storage device, enabling the OS to find the webpage as a file. Saving a lot of time when you need to link a particular web page to a particular folder. It's just amazing, and way beyond bookmarks. When people find out about the practicity of this option, bookmarks will be part of the past. Having web pages direct links stored as files will make the life easier to everyone.

Tabs and windows: The way in which is possible to detach, group, ungroup, and switch tabs from one window to another is just amazing.

Speed: I'm running Chrome right now in a laptop with 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, and Vista 64bit. So it runs smooth just as all the other browsers available.

The difference comes when opening new pages, it loads em really, and I mean it, really fast. When I go from Chrome back to Mozilla or IE 8, it makes me feel like going back from DSL to Dial up... seriously.

Chrome gives me what I want, and fits me perfectly. Even tho the auto flash play is sometimes annoying.
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

New but next to useless

Pros: It appears fast, memory useage appears good, private mode

Cons: Fails to display any pictures on any sites, failed repeatedly to save homepage, took 3 attempts to remember most visited sites and got it wrong, most features are not easy to find, feels a bit slapped together and chucked on the market too soon

Review: I have to admit that I heard very little about this before launch and it took a bit of finding to download. Having done all that I feel I have wasted my time. What good is a browser that fails to display pictures ? That makes it useless in itself. When it refuses to accept my choice of homepage, one of its main features doesn't work at all well ( restarted the browser three times to get it to remember my most visited sites and it got it all wrong on the only occassion it "worked") and most of the so called features that magazine testers report are not the easy to find or of much use to the average user then you have to wonder what is the point.
My concern on this is the amount of emphasise put on how well it will display adverts. I hate adverts and using Firefox I can eliminate most of them. I think that Google is more interested in this browser being a form of an advertising tool rather than a browser for the masses. My other problem with this is compared to Firefox, this is just not user friendly. It may appeal to the geeks but for most people if you was to put them in front of the two browsers and asked them to use them for a few minutes, I would expect almost 100% would pick Firefox. Firefox just works for you whereas this wants you to work how it wants you to work and for me I put programmes on my computer to either work for me or to make what I want to do easier and this fails in every respect.
User Rating:
1.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Massive design flaw

Pros: Almost everything, particularly the independence of each page

Cons: As a heavy user of "Favourites" - am I the only one? - I am EXTREMELY disappointed that Chrome ignores its centrality to the browsing experience. In particular, I want to be able to EASILY play around with my favourites in a file manager sort of way.

Review: I am going to remove the installation until Google address this issue.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Slick Fast and fun but already hit a couple snags

Pros: Love minimalist design and fast browsing. Tabbed browsing seems like a great idea and I've already started taking advantage of this feature by reorganizing and separating my work areas online. Incognito is sweeeeeeet.

Cons: No right-click reload for us PC people. Sure I can hit F5 or click the refresh button up top but that takes to long when one hand is holding a can of soda. Found some bugginess when using AJAX, specifically in Facebook. Check album or 3rd party apps.

Review: Awesome browser! I'm glad google has joined the arms race and I'm sure the little bugs will be worked out in due time. Goodbye IE8
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

It IS FAST and beyond simple.

Pros: Everything. It downloaded and installed in less than a minute. It runs beautifully on my 64 bit Vista Ultimate SP1 Notebook. It "looks" nice. Everything I've done with it today loaded and worked flawlessly.

Cons: So far, nothing!

Review: I try so hard to defend Microsoft. I use all Microsoft Software. Upgrade all my products diligently from Windows to Office to I.E. to Live. I like Vista but it should have been so much more. I use all the Live products, search, maps, mail, photos, etc. but it's always a step behind Google. I still don't know if MSN or Live is the future online portal since both sort of creep along.

Now....IE 8. Not all that great. Beta 1 was boring, it took forever to move to Beta 2 which presented a painful uninstall and reinstall. Now Beta 2 is a memory sow that is slow and gets bogged down and unresponsive.

I really don't understand what is going on in Redmond. They need to get their act together and INNOVATE before GOOGLE walks all over them. I'm still loyal to you MS but I really need you to WOW me. The new GOOGLE browser just did.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Very fast, great tab interface, elegant

Pros: Minimal design
Great tab interface
Being able to move tabs to desktop
Being able to create online app shortcuts on desktop
Very fast
Incognito mode
Combined search and address bar

Cons: Very poor scaling compared to Firefox (no memory)
Some incompatibilities, still in beta
New design, a little uncomfortable at first
Have to add a home button but possible in options menu

Review: A great beta, blazing fast, cool design and more functional and really pleasant to use. I use many of the services of Google and wish they were more integrated into this platform, but it is a small download and works extremely well as a browser. I can see all the potential in Chrome as I did in Firefox when it first came out. I recommend this and I look forward to some design tweaks and it will be a 5 star browser.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Good, Simple, browser but no addons =(

Pros: Opens up on my 5 yr old computer at least 2 times faster than firefox (I only have noscript and compact classic addons running).

Cool Design

Blazing fast

Cons: Because firefox has been out so long, it has many addons that make firefox the browser that it is. If google is able to come out with open source and let developers create programs such as noscript, it would be the best browser ever =)

Review: If google makes this open source and people develop addons to he browser, Chrome will be the new firefox.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Fast! Fast! Fast!

Pros: It's very fast, extremely stable and I like the minimalist look. Less clutter to distract so I can just use the browser.

Cons: Waiting for Roboform to make a compatible toolbar. That's the only one I need.

Review: I will make this my default browser and provide feedback to make it shine even more.
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Excellent look, but with some install issues.

Pros: Incognito is really useful for browsing. The look and fell of the browser is great.
Web pages to tend to render quickly.

Cons: When I installed Chrome, I had issues importing favorites. It only brought in a handful of favorites.

Review: The look and feel of the browser is excellent. I like the refreshing "toy" feel to it. IE 7 and Mozilla 3 both seem archaic compared to the new Google Chrome Browser. There are some little issues regarding the importing of favorites directly from IE 7, but this may be local to me. If this happens to you, and you don't have firefox, download firefox, import favorites from IE 7 to Firefox and then use the import tool in Chrome to bring in the firefox favorites.

The tabbed browsing experience is great plus the favorites dock on top of the page is excellent. This is my new favorite browser!!

I will participate greatly with google and submit problems and concerns.
User Rating:
3.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

No Google Toolbar

Pros: High speed, nice memory management, good pop-up killer

Cons: No Google Toolbar!

Review: I understand that this is a beta version and I shouldn't expect all pages to be compatible with Chrome. But not having a Google Toolbar for Chrome is a serious restriction. I'll be using Firefox until I can get my toolbars.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Very fast, solid but not complete yet

Pros: - FAST!
- Consume less memory overtime (tested) plus a task manager.
- Nice, uncluttered interface but also with nice effects
- Omnibar works great

Cons: - No addon yet
- Still in beta so there are quite a lot of bugs.
- Doesn't have many options to tweak

Review:
User Rating:
4.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Speedy browser.

Pros: Faster page loads.

Cons: So far none.

Review: Chrome is much lighter on its feet and renders graphically intensive websites much quicker then Firefox 3 and definitely faster then Internet Explorer 7.
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Super fast and very easy to use.

Pros: I have been waiting for a browser like this. Got tired of Firefox and IE. So far this browser has been a joy to use. And with a company like Google behind it, It will keep getting better. complaints about plugins being forced on you is strange.

Cons: None so far.

Review:
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Good from what I have seen so far but will it last?

Pros: So far it has only been pros having only had it a few hours I havent found much wrong as usual it's sleek and tidy. Although I haven't had to time to either let it customise me or me customise it.

Cons: Erm looks like it could be a very controlling browser, that lets you think you are customising but it is really customising you... time will tell

Review: Good so far but we will see where this can go I will use this instead of Firefox for a week or so and then decide which will be the default browser. Still keeping Firefox there... I do feel a little lonely without a sidebar though.
User Rating:
3.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Sleek, fast, needs more work

Pros: Quick download/install, fast rendering of pages, very stable for a beta.

Cons: No automatic detection of RSS feeds in websites, unable to import feeds from other browsers. Problems playing youtube and other streamin videos in Vista (no sound, stops playing...)

Review: Good start...needs more work (addons, plugins, RRS etc)esp. to attract FF power users. Regular IE users may not even bother. Will definitely check their 2nd beta out.
User Rating:
5.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Blazes on a Vista Quad Core

Pros: Speed, works well with all of the web pages I use most often, including those with heavy multimedia content.

Cons: Some websites don't recognize it as a current browser

Review: I expect to come across some bugs, since this is a beta, but have been very happy with in in the several hours I've used it. Barring any major difficulties, It will be my default browser for the next few weeks...
User Rating:
0.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

no thanks .....I will stick to FireFox

Pros: Speed , what few pages Chrome was able to render, it seemed fast ....

Cons: No conventional bookmarks, no plugin options , import tool works only 1/2 assed.

Review: Lack of features ..... and controll .... also I do not want a browsed that pushes plugins and other stuff that I may or may not want , with out my request or consent .
User Rating:
4.0 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Sleek and Fast

Pros: Its fast, uncluttered, and has features that are easy to use. It has a "incognito window" for surfing without leaving tracks or cookies on your computer that works well. If you happen to have a Google Home page, it will make it more functional.

Cons: None, so far.

Review:
User Rating:
2.5 stars

out of 138 user reviews

Didn't Work

Pros: Looks great \

Cons: Everything else. It didn't work

Review: IT looks nice, but it didn't work. I will look forward to trying it out when it works

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