Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

[megri]

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.
Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.
http://www.google.com/chrome

[jana]

I used Chrome recently and found it quite user friendly. The options are well designed and it is very fast in accessing almost any website.

[Jenniferlinn]

Here are some more details about Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a free web browser developed by Google and based on the WebKit layout engine and application framework. In November 2008, it had a share of 0.83% of the browser market. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. The public stable release was on December 11, 2008.

The browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later only) on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages, officially a beta version.Chrome quickly gained about 1% market share. Mac OS X and Linux versions are under development. Recently, in the Chromium project's developer wik a message was placed that a "test shell" is available to build on Linux. Some have tried this shell, which apparently lacks many features, but appears to function quite well in rendering web sites (including JavaScript).

On September 2, a CNET news item drew attention to a passage in the terms of service for the initial beta release, which seemed to grant to Google a license to all content transferred via the Chrome browser. The passage in question was inherited from the general Google terms of service.On the same day, Google responded to this criticism by stating that the language used was borrowed from other products, and removed the passage in question from the Terms of Service. Google noted that this change would "apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome." There were subsequent concern and confusion about whether and what information the program communicates back to Google. The company stated that usage metrics are only sent when users opt in by checking the option "help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google" when the browser is installed.

The first release of Google Chrome passed the Acid1 and Acid2 tests. While it did not pass the Acid3 test, it scored 79 out of 100 required to pass the test. This is higher than both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3 (71), but lower than Opera (83)[vague].When compared with development builds of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari, Chrome scored lower than Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 (85), Opera (100), and Safari 4 (Developer Preview) (100), but still higher than Internet Explorer

Chromium is the open source project behind Google Chrome, and is released under the BSD license. It implements the same feature set, but has a slightly different logo.

[Coffee_]

Ive tried this browser before, and it looks very nice indeed. The only downside to it is the address bar search function that FireFox has made so well I love it You can search your history just by typing a keyword there The version Google Chrome has attempted to create in my opinion, fails. Really, really bad. Its fast and lightweight though, which is an upside. But theres also no addons, another downside.