Why you should use Chrome

Google Chrome

I wrote recently we talked about Google’s own browser, Chrome. I said that we would look at Chrome after use for a few days to see how it performs.

Google is of course smart, and designed a browser that will help push it’s goals.  Google wants you to do more on the web. This means making the web faster, easier, and safer.

So here are some positives I’ve found with the browser after using it for a week.

• Google has the ability to put their name behind it. On the Internet, Google is king, and they can use their influence to push for certain standards.
• Chrome has been built with speed in mind. They have changed the way several core components work under the hood to be more optimized. This should allow for a smaller memory footprint and faster execution. After using running it for several days straight, it does not seem to slow like other browsers do, and it does appear from just watching it, that pages display faster and JavaScript runs faster. This is especially important if you use a lot of web based applications, such as Gmail, Google Reader, Google Docs and more.
• Chrome is a standards based browser, which means that if it runs in Firefox, or especially Safari, it should run in Chrome.
• Chrome has been designed to be stronger in the security realm. Google is claiming that extra effort has been put into ensuring that Chrome’s risk to exploitation is lower than other browsers. This should reduce the potential security holes which allow viruses to attack and phishers to steal information.
• Google has the infrastructure to test the browser in ways others cannot. To test their new browser, they have looked at their search results and started tuning based upon which sites are most likely to be viewed by its users. I’ve had a few issues with a couple of sites, but I can count them on one hand.
• Chrome reduces crash risk. Every application can crash.  This is fact of computers. However, because of how Chrome was designed, if you run multiple tabs, and one crashes, it won’t take out the rest of your tabs.  So if you are working on an email, and another tab crashes, you don’t loose your email.