Digital Drake

Google has entered the realm of web browsers currently dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer is currently the most widely used web browser, with a 75% market share. I personally think Mozilla's FireFox a much better web browser; it is certainly faster and less buggy than IE.

This is a bold move by Google that could (and probably will) knock Internet Explorer off it's lofty perch.

Google's new browser, named "Chrome" was realized on September 2, 2008; and from preliminary inputs, it is off to a very promising start.

I installed it today and it looks and feels great. It will take a slight learning curve - all things new do.

There a few differences within Google Chrome that depart from your typical browser experience: (1) Instead of giving you a separate address bar and search box, Chrome combines the two. (2) You can create tabs to keep several pages open at the same time. The "new tab" page displays thumbnails of sites you visit often and lists recently bookmarked sites. (3) You can create shortcuts to any web-based program and leave them on your PC desktop, the Windows Start Menu, or Quick-Launch bar. (4) Chrome also lets you browse "incognito." That is, in a stealth-mode. Cookies of all of your sessions are not saved on your PC.

I highly recommend that you download Google's Chrome and give it a spin.

You may download it at http://www.google.com/chrome