In Google’s world, the OS doesn’t matter, so long as it has access to the Internet (see: Google docs, YouTube, Gmail, etc.). It doesn’t quite fit in with Vista’s look and feel, nor does it look very Apple at all. Removing the menu bar does something very interesting for Google Chrome: it makes it look very OS agnostic. There’s not even a menu item for opening a file/web page, although CTRL + O will bring up an open dialog box. Accessing typical menu items is done via two very simple buttons at the right of the OmniBar (what Google’s developers call the URL bar). The most visible change is that the tabs are now the topmost part of the browser window, in fact there’s no menu bar at all. You can add direct links to web applications on your desktop, which will fire up Chrome in more of a thick-client view like this
The assumption is that your computer is setup the way you want it to be and Google isn’t going to force its services on you - competition is best done based on merit, not by manipulating the market. If you’ve only got IE7 installed on your machine Chrome will even default to Microsoft’s Live Search as the default search engine, asking you if you’d like to change it. Google could’ve just as easily used its own browser platform to help promote its own websites and services. Google’s change here makes sense and it is also quite altruistic. it’s tough to have just one single home page. In the old days it used to be one site or one search engine, but now with sites like YouTube, Facebook, AnandTech (see how I snuck that one in there?), MySpace, Digg, etc. Your home page is now a tiled list of your most visited websites. Google revamped a few basic things with Chrome, some of them with very deep implications. What follows are my thoughts on Chrome - be sure to chime in with your own in the comments. The browser step for Google is an interesting one, yet of all of the browser companies Google is the most natural fit - it’s almost surprising that Google hadn’t released a browser by now.
#Manage passwords google chrome dammit android#
Android has the potential to bring to the masses much of what Apple did with the iPhone, and Apple’s MobileMe (albeit mismanaged and poorly launched) is one step away from being a costly Google Apps competitor. It's getting crowded in the browser marketĭespite how often Google is viewed as competing with Microsoft, these days it’s acting very Apple-like. It’s been a while since we’ve had a brand new, completely unexpected Google launch and what better way to change that than by launching a damn web browser? Based on WebKit, the same foundation for Apple’s Safari web browser - yesterday Google introduced Chrome, it’s own browser:
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