Google Chrome, which was first released in December 2008, has swiftly gained in popularity, becoming the third most popular Web browser in the United States in July 2011 and the second most popular in the UnitedKingdom. Chrome's success can be attributed to a variety of unique features as well as a quick development cycle with frequent upgrades.
Chrome's UI is simple and minimalist, with only a few toolbars and icons taking up valuable screen real estate, leaving more room for the site to be displayed. This frees you up to concentrate on the website or application instead of the browser. Other browsers, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, have received sleeker and less crowded interfaces as a result of Google Chrome'ssuccess.
When Google built Chrome, they concentrated on speed, and the result is a browser that is quick to launch and use. Chrome is based on the WebKit open-source rendering engine, with a unique JavaScript engine called V8 for quicker script execution and better memory management on dynamic websites. Without installing any additional software, Chrome now has hardware-accelerated 3-D graphics, enabling faster screen rendering for graphically intensive sites.
Google Chromemakes use of several processes, allowing each tab to function in its own process independently from the others. If one tab freezes or runs slowly due to bad coding, none of your other tabs will be affected. If a website crashes one of the tabs, the problem is limited to that tab, which you can close without crashing the entire browser. Browser popups are restricted and limited to the single tab in which they appear, preventing them from taking over your computer. Browser popups are restricted and limited to the single tab in which they appear, preventing them from taking over your computer.
Another important consideration in the development of Chrome was security, and a number of measures keep the user safe when browsing. Each tab runs in a sandbox, which is a secure area from which it cannot escape. This prevents malware from infecting your machine or hooking into operating system functions by preventing dangerous software included in a Web page from reading from vulnerable sections of your hard disc or writing data to the disc.
To prevent visitors from being fooled into entering banking information or other sensitive data into an unauthorized site, known phishing sites and sites containing malware are instantly blocked. As a result, Chrome has become one of the safest Internet browsers available.
