Google Chrome 4.0 stable version released for Windows
Google has released a better, stable version of Google Chrome 4.0 browser for Windows.
The extensions, about 1,500 of them, were already released in December last year for the users of Chrome 4.0 bowers beta version. However, now the gallery is available for all the Windows users. While the extensions are already available for Linux, the process is still under development for Apple Mac. It might be released in another year’s time.
Ian Fette, Google’s Product Manager ensured that the new extensions use a multi-process technology that’ll ensure they do not slow down the browser or cause a crash.
Indeed extensions are among the most popular features that have gained Mozilla Firefox such huge popularity, allowing the users to add functions and other helpful shortcuts for common tasks.
Google claims that its new release Chrome 4.0 browser is much faster and boosts the speed by almost 42 percent over the last stable release. Chrome 4.0 has been tested faster than Mozilla Firefox 3.6 in three of the four tests.
The stable version of Chrome 4.0 can be downloaded from Google’s website.
Google’s SPDY will speed up downloads
As part of the internet giant’s efforts to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY!
Google’s SPDY is the newest application layer protocol that the company hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and web servers and also enable the web pages to download up to twice as fast!
According to software engineers Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon in Google’s research blog, SPDY protocol was tested in the laboratory by downloading each of the top 25 websites 10 times. The test environment simulated home network connections, and used a special web server and a Google’s Chrome browser prototype. The tests indicated SPDY gave page load times up to 55 per cent faster.
It speeds up web page downloads by using several techniques, including allowing multiple simultaneous HTTP requests per TCP session, request prioritization, and compressing the data to cut the number of packets. It does not replace HTTP headers but it overrides HTTP’s data transfer formats and connection management features.
Google to launch Chrome OS
Google is now thinking a step forward, this time a giant leap to capture users!
After having challenged Microsoft’s Internet Explorer already with the launch of its browser Chrome, the internet search giant is now planning the launch of its very own new computer operating system to compete directly with the Windows platform!
Google’s own OS, the Chrome OS, was designed initially for low-cost netbooks. This will now offer its program code to developers across the globe and create another ‘open source’ competition for the software giant, Microsoft.
In Europe Microsoft to sell Windows without browser
Microsoft Corp. announced that the company will be making a separate version of Windows 7 computer operating system (OS) which will not include the company’s own Internet Explorer Web browser. The announcement came on Thursday and these computer OS will be on sale in Europe only.
This move from the software giant comes as the company tries to see off another antitrust tussle with the regulators of the European Union.
Earlier, EU in January has alleged that the software maker’s practice of selling Internet Explorer as a part its OS Windows violates their antitrust rules. Subsequently, EU asked Microsoft to separate the Web surfing software from its PC operating system.
No doubt Microsoft’s web browser is the most widely used one but amongst the web browsers gaining popularity today are Mozilla’s Firefox and Chrome from Google.
In the previous antitrust case, the software giant had paid a fine of $2.63 billions. That involved the package of its media player along with the OS. This time the company is avoiding to pay a hefty sum again amidst recession.
IE8 gets flak for being ‘still slow’
Microsoft’s newly launched web browser Internet Explorer 8, IE8, has received mixed response from users across the globe. The software giant released the newer version of the Internet explorer on the 16th of this month. The newer version has been highly appreciated for its wider range of navigational and security features. On the other hand the users have also criticized its compatibility and still slow speed.
According to the results of The Web Standards Project’s Acid Test 3, IE8 users are encountering its compatibility problems with Web standards such as CSS, HTML4 and XHTML. The Acid 3 test has revealed that IE8 is not up to the standards delivered by other browser software from Google and Mozilla.
This inconsistency could further pose problems for developers who rely heavily on these standards for ensuring that it can run across many different browsers and on different other OSes as well.
Another problem faced by the users is regarding the speed of the new web browser. Microsoft might have claimed it to be the fastest web browser; however the fact remains that IE8 remains the slowest amongst the top five in the market.
According to the test findings, Google’s Chrome led all browsers and is tested to be more than four times faster than IE8. Mozilla’s Firefox 3.0.7 came second, followed by Apple’s Safari 3.2.2 for Windows and Opera Software’s Opera 9.63.
The technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg, also criticized IE 8’s performance in an All Things Digital post. He wrote, “Microsoft claims IE 8 is very fast, but in my tests, speed and performance were its worst attributes. Using two computers, one running Windows XP and one running Windows Vista, I timed the loading of a half-dozen popular Web sites, plus two folders containing numerous news and sports sites. I repeated the test in IE 8, and in Firefox, Safari 4, and Chrome. In every case, IE 8 loaded the pages and folders more slowly than most of the other browsers, and in most cases, it came in dead last.”
Also Microsoft has not confirmed any dates as to when will the company make available the final version of IE8 for Windows 7, but it is expected in the next public release for Windows 7.
The newly introduced navigation and security features do get the wider applause.
Microsoft adds shortcuts, security to new browser
Microsoft Corp. is all set to release a new version of Internet Explorer on Thursday, IE8. the newer version, as promised by the software giant, will have added features meant to speed up the common web surfing tasks. It is also aimed to enhance the browser’s security measures as those of its major competitors.
Microsoft’s Internt Explorer, commonly known as IE, got a tough competition in recent years from Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple Inc.’s Safari web browser, Google Inc.’s Chrome, the Norwegian entrant Opera. Each of them have been using speed, security enhancements and new features to grab the larger share of web surfers’ growing time online. However, Microsoft clealry remians the mot dominant element, yet after the no. of rivals shot up, the company has been constatly upgrading to maintain its dominance.
Internet Explorer 8 or IE8 is Microsoft’s first major web browser update since its IE7 in August 2006. the company has promised to take care of a no. of annoying daily encounters.
IE8 has reduced the need to copy text from one page and pasting it into the other, thanks to a new icon of list of these actions, labelled by Microsoft as Accelerators. It also allows the users to add new Accelerators to reflect their own search, e-mail and other e-habits.
In an effort to keep related tabs linked, any new tab opened in IE8 would now be tucked with the source page. Also if a single tab crashes in a web page crashes, it wouldn’t bring down the whole of the web page.
The software giant has now added some new privacy features. These including a mode for web browsing that will not store the web browsing history, nor will it small data files called cookies.
IE 8 wil also allow its users to block ads from companies having potential risks like the ones which track web surfing habits across a number of sites, commonly called behavioral targeting.
Chrome takes its bite of the Market
The early release of the Chrome comic book may have altered the way Google released the Chrome it did not cause it any harm. The early success of Google’s Chrome has been astonishing. The Chrome ate up 1% of the browser market on the very day of its release. It has been on the constant rise and currently is close to 2% (4 days since its release). Some sites though are reporting percentages as high as 6 percent including Google itself.
So what was the key to the Chrome’s extraordinary success? Great timing, the chrome’s comic was released on labor day on an unofficial Google blog. Labor day is usually a very slow news day and Google took advantage of that. The chrome was available for download even before Google had completed its announcement which was streamed live all across the internet. Google has only released the windows version which is a beta and it has become the world’s 4th most used browser in the matter of 4 days. The future of Google’s Chrome seems very bright despite privacy concerns being raised.
Google has not yet announced a date for the release of its final version or for other operating systems.
Below are the test results of some tests carried out using different browsers:
Chrome is not 100% Pure metal
Google’s Chrome has an imploring clean look and renders websites faster than any other browser. Google is giving all this to users free of charge, but there are strings attached. The browser will give Google access to valuable user data.
The Chrome comes with (so-called) Omnibox pre-installed, where a user types in a search query or a website URL. As long as Google is your default search engine and the suggest feature is left on, Google will capture 2% of the data entered into the Omnibox and keep it for its own records. If Google’s Chrome attains its much anticipated success, the internet giant will have an exceedingly valuable stream of new user data, not bounded to what users search but what websites they visit outside of the Google’s web space.
Google has made it clear that such “tracking Capabilities” can be switched off by the user. If the user switches on the “Incognito” privacy function, then Google will have no trace.
Forrester Research analyst Sheri McLeish believes that it would be “counter-intuitive for Google not to use Chrome to gain more user data”. She went on to discredit the privacy function “it doesn’t mean they don’t collect that information, or won’t.”.
The potential of tapping user data for targeted advertising is huge.
We all know that Google’s Chrome is not created solely as new stream of user data, Sheri agrees too. Google has Vowed to establish Chrome as the “central access point” of all of its internet services.
Chrome Google gets metal.
Tech fans have flocked to Google Chrome (including me), Individuals and small businesses are playing along.
The real Question is will enterprises fancy Google’s chrome after being pig-headedly loyal to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, in spite of Mozilla’s Firefox record breaking success. Chrome’s clean look and fast rending capabilities will appeal to developers, but will they put in the time and investment to rewrite their programs and test their compatibility with Chrome.
Greg Raiz, who is a developer and owns Raizlabs, a Mass. custom software maker, says “The only thing that would make me want to test on Chrome is if the client wants it or if Chrome gets significant market share, Honestly, it’s a business thing.” IT managers and CIO’s reckon browser performance as only one among many factors to take into consideration before initiating a new venture.
Virgin Entertainment Group Inc. CIO, Robert Fork said “I’d have to make sure Chrome worked well with all of our other apps. What is the business value in that?” “I give Google all the credit in the world for innovative solutions … but to Microsoft’s credit, they’ve got a lot more of an enterprise attitude,”. Robert’s attitude is just what Microsoft wants, he went on to say “Google Chrome is definitely faster than IE 8 Beta 2. But there’d have to be astronomical performance improvements in Chrome for us to switch,”.
Personally I prefer Google’s Chrome over Internet Explorer, with Google’s innovation, a powerful search engine, tools like Youtube and Google Earth, and last and but most Google’s big wallet i can say with confidence that the Chrome will be something to take seriously.
Faizan Zakir, Cyberzest.com
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