Google aims for a 5 percent browser market, with CHROME 3.0 launch
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Google has launched the latest and ought to be the most STABLE, windows-only version of its browser CHROME 3.0, yesterday.
Google Chrome 3.0
Okay, i don’t know what to comment on this one. At an interview with , Chrome engineering director Linus Upson confessed that the company wants more than a measly 2.8 per cent share as it stands today.
If at the two-year birthday we’re not at least five per cent (market share), I will be exceptionally disappointed. And if at the three year birthday we’re not at 10 per cent, I will be exceptionally disappointed,” he said.
Whatever the terms are, but i guess this is indeed the most stable version of the chrome set of browser launched by the INTERNET giant in the past year or so.
Well, looking further into some of the few details about this latest release,
According to the , “This release comes hot on the heels of 51 developer, 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bugfixes in the past year,”
The Tab page has been tinkered with, there’s enhanced support for HTML 5 and more icons have been added to Omnibox – which is Chrome’s search-web-address-combi-bar.
New Omnibox in Chrome 3.0
“With this release, we’ve optimised the presentation of the drop-down menu and added little icons to help you distinguish between suggested sites, searches, bookmarks, and sites from your browsing history,” said Google.
Whatever the reason the browser may or may not perform well, may not get a positive response from the users who rely more on Linux,MAC osx machines rather than Windows machines.
Fortunately, the Windows Xp-Vista machine users had been given a privilege to use this browser on their machines and there is a beta MAC Chrome 3.0 is still under the hood.
Also be noted, Chrome 3.0 supportsHTML5 video tags makes running embedded videos smoother, avoiding the need to use for any third party Plug-in or so.
And as far as the performance of this new browser goes,
In and Extensive testing, Mr.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at found Chrome 3.0 to be fastest among the all other browsers available in the market. And, All of them with their latest releases.
Now, that might raise a few Eyebrows around but i myself had experienced that last day itself at least after using three different browsers.
Adrian says in the , “To be honest, despite having all five browsers installed side-by-side on several test machines, I’ve never actually taken all of them on a test like this before. Given my experience of the browsers under synthetic benchmark tests, I’d expected Chrome 3 to be the fastest and IE8 to be the slowest, but I honestly didn’t think that those milliseconds difference in synthetic benchmarks results would translate into anything noticeable in the real-world. The fact that there is a noticeable difference means that we have all benefited from this latest round of browser wars because we’re all enjoying faster browsers.”
Well, speed is truly has to play an important role in Geer’in the users away from slow and buggy programs and softwares in this new age of web 2.0 which is already poise to make an entry into the 3.0 phase of its existence.
Nevertheless, Google has already indicated a lot about its plans to overcome the browser market. As the firm recently inked a deal with Sony Corp to pre-load Chrome on to some of the Japanese tech giant’s PCs.
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