Google Chrome 0.29 beta - First Impressions

After 3 days of testing, I feel free to come out with the first impressions of Google Chrome browser, browser imagined to be IE/Firefox/Opera killer.


Google Chrome in its early beta stage (0.29) seems like fairly good browser. It is rather fast (seems equivalent to Firefox, even faster on some pages) with some interesting features. I won't bother with counting all the features, will just mention some facts. First of all, which is in my opinion not a surprise, address bas operates as Google search - you just type a phrase on address bar and Chrome acts as Google web search. Tabbed browsing is an option all browsers now have but interesting to mention is browsing in "incognito" mode, browsing without caching any files on your PC. New tab option shows window with most visited sites (incognito browsed sites not included!) and most recently bookmarked sites.



There are lots of discussions on the Internet about Google Chromes' EULA and possible privacy thefts but IMO, things are a bit overreacted.


New bug-fixed version of Google Chrome, released after 3 days, gives us right to believe that Google really decided to act fast and serious with their browser and that they really do mean to grab serious percentage of browser industry.



Google Chrome is rated 4.5 out of 5 on The First Software Pick