Chrome Web Browser is Fast !!

I got wind of google's coming web browser a couple days before the launch. I downloaded the new open source web browser the day it came out. It's FAST ! I've used FireFox for years, and a friend of mine recently was astounded at how much faster it was when I told him to download it. Google Chrome is faster than FireFox. The page display (rendering engine) is incredibly quick. Pages render much faster than any browser I've ever used.

The interface is very clean with a thin frame and a lot of space devoted to the page you are rendering. The tabs are well thought out. It's a minimalist browser, but I can see it will be awesome, especially since it is open source. Google is a big player on the internet and has certainly upped the ante here for MicroSoft. It also has a feature called Incognito Mode, much like MS's porn mode, which hides personal information and deletes all files used when chrome closes.

The neatest feature I think is the new tab page that shows a panel of thumbnails of the sites you visit most often. The thumbnails are links, I just wish I could find a way of showing more pages in the results.

Searches are incredibly simple as well, just type in the address bar, your query, and voila ! The bar knows its a query not a site, and uses google as the search for results.

Grab a copy and give it a whirl.
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Response to Mark Cubans Blog Post

They (Google) sure aren't hurting for money though, are they? I think their mission is far more noble than the posts I read here. Seems like many here think from the standpoint of what would benefit ME would be..... which seems to be all about MONEY ! so that is one perspective but there is another. That free content is better than locking it up and giving it to one soul/corporation for the rest of their lives. They will make more money off future videos and they know quantity is king there. Standing on the shoulders of Giants if you will. The boat these posts seem to miss is that, over the long term their collection of free content (especially if filtered) will continue feeding itself. People who make vids for the heck of it will continue do so, and they can release them under any license they choose. Releasing to the public domain allows them to be used in other more creative works and it's perpetual from there. People now have a creativecommons.org to go to and finds a huge amount of media to incorporate into their own, new, creative works. What happens as google makes pennies off their trillions of videos while others seek a $5 to view? Locking things up for the interests of few was nice while it worked, but we can benefit as a society and perhaps build a far more diverse representation of the human experience if we embrace freedom as well as capitalism. Perhaps watching a video is not a criminal activity because someone tells us so. Perhaps its a matter of respect and given the choice, many will involved in both sides. One thing is sure, with the ability to release my creative works to the public domain, I feel better as a human for sharing without a toll. I prefer to make money providing something with more value, such as a service or a trinket, perhaps a meal or some lodging. Placing a tax on every piece of media under the sun, I have no interest in that at all. Balance will prevail, and I believe ultimately Google (and others in the Open community) will trump the old ways of business I see here.