Thursday, September 4, 2008

Have you Chromed Your Browser? Fo Shizzle!


Have you surfed the web, visited some sites, found the loading speed was really slow so much so that you can actually take your dog out for a dump and its still loading? Well it happens to me and on my sneaker site which initially i thought was graphics heavy so I took a whole damn afternoon resizing them. However, it didn't do much as it was still loading slowly. The Apple servers were my next blame. So it seems there's not much I can do here. Well do not be fooled by bandwidth problems and slow loading websites anymore. Google comes to the rescue!

The folks at Google have done it again-showing the world how a browser should be. I present to you Google Chrome. They developed their browser and juiced it up with a turbo charged javascript engine aptly called V8 to power the next generation web apps that aren't possible in today's browsers. I had the chance to witness it last night with some pals using a PC laptop(Beta version for Windows available now and Mac version coming soon). The browser looked so simple and streamlined. No separate window for search -URL n search all reside on one window. When you type in the address bar it gives you suggestions for both search and web pages-Brilliant!! You also get to access your fave pages at lightning speed from any new tab. My first user experience hit at me fast and furious, Chrome had etched this on my mind-Clean, fast and gets me where I wanna go and it doesn't get into my way!

The best part of all this is Google will make Chrome an open source browser-meaning all the geniuses around the world can make this browser better, a global collaboration which a lot of companies fail to see the power of and even make people pay for their SDK. Forget that crap this one's going only one way sky rocket high up and at lightning speed! In one sentence Google says"We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward". This is history in the making. Try it and you will know what i mean when i say "Fo Shizzle"

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