Google Chrome : Lighter, Faster and Great Extensions/Plugins

Google Chrome is a Web Browser developed by Google and released in Sept '08.

It was released at a time when Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer made up more than 90% of the market share. Still Google Chrome went on to become a huge success and is currently the third largest web browser in the world.



For people who have not downloaded Google Chrome yet, you can do it from here.

This is how Tech-Keeda look on Chrome.

Once you install Chrome and run it for the first time, the first thing that you will notice is that its incredibly light and amazingly fast. I for once was a die-hard Mozilla Firefox user until I checked Chrome out. Although Firefox is fast, but its not a match for Chrome.

After using Firefox for some time, the general complaint that people have is that it takes too long for Firefox to start up initially. Well, If your one of them, then try opening Chrome even when you have a lot of applications going on in the background, I bet you will be amazed to see how fast it opens.

OK enough of me going on and on about how fast Chrome is, lets now talk about the other thing about Chrome that I liked.

Google Extensions also known as Plugins is another great thing about Chrome. Google Plugins are basically extensions or small in built apps that you can install on your Chrome interface to enhance your browsing experience.

Google offers a wide array of plugins that users can download like Twitter, URL shortener's, Translate and many other useful apps. These apps are really wonderful and what is more wonderful about them is that they can also be developed by third party people.

Once you have Google Chrome running on your system, you can install plugins for Chrome here.

These plugins have practically no noticeable impact on Chrome's speed. Google has made a portion of Chromes source code available to developers so that they can also develop apps and plugins for Chrome. By making Chrome open source, Google also got the opportunity to make Chrome available to Mac users with the help of the open source community.

By my normal standards, this post has gotten a bit long. But still I thought it was important to write about Chrome as I write for complete non-geeks/non-techie people and many may not be knowing the potential of the Google Chrome browser. I try to make my posts as simple as possible to read and comprehend.

Enough of bragging about my self, do check my next post.