Google Chrome has been steadily gaining popularity, acquiring a large chunk of global usage share among internet browsers.
The browser upholds Google’s reputation of innovation and industry
dominance, providing the go-to internet browser for the masses. Chrome’s
appeal lies largely in its simplicity and speed, surpassing the
competition in both. The web browser earns our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award for its rapid page load times and intuitive layout, which cultivate smooth and seamless navigation
The latest version of Chrome is jam-packed with highly convenient features, including synchronization, tabbed browsing and privacy functions. Using your Google account, Chrome can sync your bookmarks, browser preferences and extensions so that they are available on any computer once you sign into your account. This is advantageous because it allows you to easily access your own add-ons and preferences regardless of what computer you are using. It’s also ideal for households with a single computer. Chrome’s tabbed browsing, while basic, is another thing the web browser excels at. With a single mouse click, you can rearrange tabs, duplicate tabs and even drag tabs to open new windows. Not only can tabs be isolated, but they also function independently, meaning if one tab crashes, the others are not affected. Lastly, if you open a new tab from an existing one (e.g., clicking on an embedded link), the new tab is placed next to the originating or parent tab, rather than at the end of your list of tabs. This makes it much easier to keep related tabs organized and grouped together.
Another notable feature of Chrome is its privacy browsing. The browser boasts incognito mode, which doesn’t track your browsing as you navigate webpages. When a browser in incognito mode is closed, it also deletes cookies and passwords from that session. You can have browsers in normal mode and in incognito mode open simultaneously.
Another innovative feature that Google takes from traditional operating systems and applies to internet browsing is a task manager. You can open the online task manager and see which websites and applications are running and how much computer memory they are using. You can even check out the "stats for nerds" section and see detailed information about browser memory usage and the various processes running.
Chrome has most of the other standard features we were looking for when reviewing internet browsers, including automatic updates, RSS feeds and a password manager. The browser does not have any parental controls and likely won’t in future versions. Google has said that it believes there are other ways to monitor internet use, and there are already several third-party applications that exist for monitoring.
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