Yesterday when Ashutosh call me and told me about Chrome, I was just as curious as any geek. I tried it, I liked it, but eventually I uninstalled it.

My views:
Chrome has better rendering engine(webkit) than FireFox(gecko).It takes less time to start and has better javascript performance,but it gets particularly slow and hogs resources when dealing with high amounts of graphics and Flash with multiple tabs open.During normal pages it uses only little less CPU memory,opens 3 application in task manager,it is a fact i checked it.Firefox 3.1, which Mozilla hopes to release by the end of the year, comes with JavaScript acceleration technology called TraceMonkey. FF has lot of addons which makes it kewl and far better than chrome.Chrome also don't have integrated download accelerator as we need most.I use {down them all} download accelerator which i found superb.Chrome has a specific mode which don't write anything to your pc otherwise in FireFox you have to open history and delete the pages and for wikipedia search you have to first open wikipedia website.I also don't like rss reader of chrome.
Folks like chrome more suitable to eyes but for me lot of skins of FireFox available,but i must say GUI of chrome is better.It is only for windows platform and it also don't warn me visiting dangerous site as wot does in FireFox and everybody knows windows is a sweet home of lot of Trojan's and viruses.It also don't have status bar,loads the entire page at once.I will try to get more how's its for security aspect.Lets see how google improves it in future release.Till now FireFox won the battle at least for me...

Interesting aspects of Chrome:
Google didn’t create a new rendering engine, they used an existing one
They analyzed Safari’s neat GUI tricks and implemented something even better.
They added an IE8-like domain highlight in the URL.
They got the Firefox’s Awesome Bar and improved it.
They got Opera’s Speed Dial and improved it.
They got IE8’s one-process-per-tab architecture and improved it.
They didn’t think of a Javascript JIT first, they just made it widely-available first.
They didn’t think about merging the address bar with the search bar, Mozilla announced it first, but Google released it before they did.
Safari 4 allows users to create shortcuts for their favorite web apps, but unfortunately it’s only out for developers…


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