4 Quick Short Posts: Part 1: What, Why? And Google Chrome

A lot happened since I last blogged. I have a reason for being away. I've been very busy with my college assignments. Not that I say I've been very regular in the past, but it so happens that when I think of being more loyal to the interwebs, something or the other crops up and all that loyalty gets trapped within the confines of my head.

Thought of writing an abridged post, but there is a lot to write and having them separated in to shorter posts sounds like a better idea to me. Plus, some topics deserve to stand out from the rest. They won't be detailed posts, so spare me if I'm not able to serve you well this time.

All done creating a base for the rest, here's part one for you...

Google Chrome:

Google recently (ok, it was recent when I thought of writing about it) launched their new web browser - Chrome. It is based on code from the open source browser Chromium. Chrome became an instant hit without much publicity. That is one thing I highly admire about Google - there's never much flashy advertising about their products, but still they get famous pretty quickly. Chrome, for a relevant example, obtained a little more than 1% of the browser market share within two days of its launch.

As of now, it has been launched for the Windows platform only, but a Linux and Mac port is being worked upon. For the same reason, I've not been able to personally review it, because I never really returned to my PC after 29th July. But from what I hear on the web and from people who tried it out, it has been one great browser. Google, as they put it on their blog says, Chrome is a browser for the current face of the web.

Google Suggest which graduated out of Labs few days back, is built into the OmniBox (the address bar, because it does more than just getting URLs, has been christened that) in Chrome and is a great feature. I see Google Chrome as a step closer to the hypothetical Google OS for computers. Who knows may be we'll have it some day sitting pretty on our computers (Naah, I still don't see the thought of me leaving the Mac!)

To know more about it, I'd suggest all of you on the Windows platform to take it for a spin once, you'll sure like it.

[This post is part 1 of a multipart post, read part two, three and four by clicking on the links]