Is Google Chrome Just Another Browser ?

Google today released windows installer for windows as stated in there blog. It is available for download from the google’s website.

Many people like me must be having this question is this another browser in the race of already packed crowd or it will stand loud and tall amongst it’s competitors like firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer to name few. As per google’s blog we can soon expect the binaries for Linux and Mac as well. Let’s take a first cut look into the browser:

•  Downloading the browser is pretty easy you can download it from google’s website; intensity of Google pushing with chrome shows up with the fact that the promotional link for chrome can be found on the google.com page; which has been empty till today; no promotion and ads; break the rules if it serves and I really don’t see why Google should not do it.
• As Google has been adding value to the users with gmail; google suggest to name a few here comes another tool from Google’s arsenal chrome is no exception when it comes to giving the best to users.
• There is something for everyone whether you are end user or a developer
• As an end user you can experience the classic color combination which is soothing to eyes; memory usage is pretty low when compared with firefox; it consumes around 1/3 to 1/4 when compared with firefox.
• As developer you can view source at your disposal; debug javascript and javascript console is also available separately
• It also gives pretty handy functionality called task manager which gives you amount of physical memory consumed by different tabs
• The best thing which I liked is installer asking you to make google.com as your default search engine or choose some other search engine to be made default.
• You don’t need to have separate search box for searching; you can search from address bar itself

If I look at the browsers which I have used Chrome stands a strong chance of success and is a clear winner for me in many aspects; this may embark a new era in browsers history. 

Points mentioned above are not exhaustive neither they cover all functionalities available in Google chrome; this is just a first cut look at the browser.