Star
features in new browser
GOOGLE has promised that its new Chrome Web browser will be
faster & smarter than its competitors, including Internet
Explorer from rival Mircosoft. The company is banking on three star
features to lure Internet users & they are as follows:
Omnibox
This is the box where you type in a website's address. It also
allows you to write any term, say Felicia Chin, and it will bring
up a list of websites on the actress. Before you finish typing,
Chrome predicts what you are after by looking up websites you
visited previously, and by referencing similar searches by other
web surfers. If you have visited, say, Wikipedia.com, the box also
lets you search for things on that website, without typing in its
address.
Privacy
mode
If you do not want others to find out what you have been
surfing, there is a new Incognito feature. It ensures that traces
of your Internet session are erased the moment you exit the
browser. This means things such as virtual "cookies", which track
the items you browse on Amazon.com for example, are not stored on
the computer, so others cannot access them.
Smart
Tabs
Users often surf several webpages at once on multiple tabs on
their browsers. In Chrome, these tabs run on separate "processes",
so if one website takes up too much of the computer's resources or
causes the software to crash, each tab cab be shut down
individually. The other pages, loaded separately on other tabs, can
continue running. With current browsers, a problematic website can
sometimes cause the entire browser application to freeze up.
Read the today's home section of The Straits Times for
more..