Instead of having separate input boxes for the search bar and the address bar, Google has united the two in Chrome. It also means that a bad process in one tab won't kill your whole browser session.Ģ. I also like that Chrome makes each tab a separate process in Windows, so you can also go into the Windows Task Manager and shut down one of them if it's locked up. You can get more details by clicking the "Stats for nerds" link on the Task Manager and it will open a page with a full breakdown of memory and CPU usage for each process within the browser.
You can open it by clicking Shift-Esc from within Chrome. Whether or not these new features will entice Internet users to give up Internet Explorer or Firefox is still up in the air, but here are the five best new features that I see in Chrome:Ĭhrome has its own Task Manager that shows you how much memory and CPU usage each tab and plug-in is using.
They have legitimately tried to innovate and bring some new features to the Web browser - and they've open sourced the whole thing. I will at least give Google credit for not doing a "me too" release. When I heard that Google was officially going to launch its own Web browser my first thought was, "Great, that's just what we need, another Web browser." After seeing Google's press conference and getting a first look at Chrome, I'm starting to warm up to the idea. See the full screen shot gallery First look: Google Chrome We immediately started kicking the tires and put together a photo gallery and a quick list of the five best new features you'll find in Google Chrome. Only the Microsoft Windows version has been released, but Google promised Mac and Linux versions would soon follow. Google launched the first beta version of its Chrome Web browser on Tuesday after two years of development.
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