I just installed Chrome, the new browser from Google and it’s fast and it looks very clean. Unfortunately at the moment it only works in Windows. I hope to see the Linux and Mac versions soon.
Click here to go to the download page
Very clean interface, no menus and tool bars filling the space:
When you open a new Tab or Window, automatically it show the pages that you use more often:
You don’t need to know the full “address” for the website you are looking for, just start typing the name or whatever you want to search or any words related to it, and the browser will show you the more likely results that match the words criteria:
I have been reading about Chrome, the new browser from Google, and I’m very excited about the possibilities that it is going to offer to “work” the Internet, as a browser and as a platform for developing new applications. At Google they have created a “comic” to explain it, it is so easy that even not technical people can follow it. I have to say that the ideas on security are really good, I hope they work as intended.
Have a look at how Chrome works here: The Chrome Comic
Even though Safari from Apple seems to be a very good browser, having moved from the world of PCs and Windows to Mac quite recently, I’m still faithful to my favorite browser: Firefox. Why? The main reason for me is the amazing world of extensions, but specially NoScript, the extension that keep my computers sane and healthy.
Well, but this post is not about NoScript, it is about a small annoyance with the interactivity between Firefox and Mac: I couldn’t open the Mac Dictionary when selecting words in Firefox. Today I found an extension called “Look Up in Dictionary 0.1” that just create that connection between these two programs, and finally I can search from any word on the Mac dictionary from Firefox as I do from email, safari, skype, etc., etc. It add the missing Look Up in Dictionary option to the options menu when selecting a word.
Sometimes I wonder how many people bother with these problems. Let me know if you find this post useful
