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Google Chrome. The
Google Browser.
In September 2008 Google launched its new browser,
named Google Chrome. The Google Chrome enters
the browser competition challenging Microsoft
Internet Explorer, which has the 73% of the
browser market share, Firefox, which has 19%,
and Apple Safari, with 6% of the browser market.
Our impressions on
Google Chrome.
Our first impressions on Google Chrome were
quite positive, the browser being quite fast
in loading the pages - faster than Firefox and
Internet Explorer - and "light", minimalist
and simple as an application. Chrome is faster
to launch than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7,
and faster than Firefox.
Right after the Google Chrome launch we had
the impression that Chrome was "lighter"
and less resource demanding on the computer
CPU.
Google Chrome is very friendly and easy to use,
simplicity and clarity being again a kind of
trademark for Google products.
After some time of using it and listening to
the opinions of our professional user panel,
we think Google Chrome is not so exciting. It
has a tendency to crash quite easily, especially
with more than one tab having Flash content.
Several times it crashed with just two tabs
opened on two YouTube pages.
Google Chrome Graphic
User Interface
We do not like the graphic user interface of
Google Chrome, quite childish in stye with those
light blue hues which makes it look as a boy
toy.
We hope Google graphic designers will either
improve the graphic user layout, or develop
skinning options similar to Firefox.
We would rather prefer a neutral browser skin,
such as the Safari or the Firefox with Blue
Ice 2 skin.
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Google Chrome Market
Share
From our sources we have the information that
the current Google Chrome marketshare is between
1.5% and 3%. These numbers are very small and
we think they are disappointing for Google.
If these figures are confirmed the result is
that Google Chrome is actually to be considered
a flop, not having gained significant marketshare
from Firefox, our preferred browser, or from
Microsoft Internet Explorer.
We highly regard Google marketing strategies,
but we regret that this time both the product
both the strategies of Google do not appear
to be winning ones.
Post Your Opinion about
Google Chrome
If you wish you can post your opinion on Google
Chrome in the form below. You can write your
opinion on the other browsers as well. We shall
review your comments and if we find them interesting
and valuable we shall publish them.
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on the Vertygo Team website. In the comments
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the date, the name and surname of the author,
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