Google Chrome Beta
2008 September 3 – 9:55 am
Google Chrome Beta, Google’s new web browser is available today for download, if you have Google as your homepage you may have already seen the link to download it.
First impressions are good, it seems to load pages very fast with some nice features. It automatically imported my bookmarks from Internet Explorer, We would suggest you have a good look at the options, you don’t get a homepage by default nor do you get a button to take you to a homepage.
Here are a few things we have found so far –
- Set the homepage and select the option for a homepage button in options under the basics tab.
- To add a bookmark click the star that is on the left of the address bar.
- When loading a new tab Google Chrome will show you most visited pages and browser history, although this might be helpful, if you don’t want something to show in that list – click the page icon to the right of the address bar and select ‘New incognito Window’ this will stop the pages and cookies being logged.
- To turn a Tab into a window simply drag the tab down below the address bar.
- To search simply type what you want to search for in the address bar.
- If you download a lot you will like the downloads page, it shows you everything you have downloaded and you can search it.
- Google Chrome has its own task manager, this allows you to close a tab that has crashed and also shows you how much memory each tab is using, to view this right click at the top of the Google Chrome window and select task manager.
More updates as we continue to test, please remember this program is beta and install and use it at your own risk.