On Thursday, Mark Long reported with newsfactor.com that Google’s shinny new open-source browser, Chrome, is off to a good start.
According to Net Applications, as of Wednesday evening Chrome had about a one percent stake in Internet searches. That may not seem like a lot, particularly when well-established rivals such as Internet Explorer and Firefox control 72.15% and 19.73 percent respectively.
The beta version of chrome lacks some of the fancy features others browsers boast, but some find the bare aesthetics appealing. Perhaps because of this, Chrome is described as “lightning fast” and its innovative “sandbox” tab browsing make is, as Long puts it, “more durable than other browsers.” Because each tab is isolated, one crashed tab won’t affect the other tabs. Also, each tab will display certain metrics like the amount of memory and resources being by each page.
Interested in becoming part of that 1%? You can download Google’s Chrome browser for free and start surfing today.
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