A raw version of Google Chrome browser for Mac and Linux has been pre-released. Those working on Mac and Linux might have another browser to rejoice but the story is far from complete. Well, the test version of the browser is a novice that knows no printing, Flash and lack even a bookmark manager. It's not even in beta. Probably this is why the project leaders Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg have emphasized "DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM!" Well, it also bears in addition that you try them only if you like incomplete, crash-prone software. With much of it on the lee-side there's a relief that it'll have updates more frequently that no browser would opt for.
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No doubt Firefox stands amongst the top browsers. It has commendable load speed and above all impressive add-ons. Google's Chrome, although a recent release, it enjoys popularity. But it could never match the versatile browsing options Firefox provides with the help of its add-ons. There are some commendable features with Chrome too. What if you want to get the best of both world? Not to worry, most of the Chrome features can be set up with add-ons in Firefox.  
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While Matt used it for his blog to get a stat of the browsers from which people are visiting his blog, we thought of experimenting with ours too. What came out is quite interesting. We are gonna provide you with a two-way picture by presenting the statistics of a technical and a non-technical blog and then show you the comparative study of last two months.

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CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is free and available for download here.

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Like GMail Chrome allows really useful shortcuts. Some of my favorites are:

1. You can drag a link between tabs to open the link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip.
2. Ctrl1-8 allows you to switch tabs by tab position on the strip. Ctrl-9 switched to the last tab.
3. Like Firefox you can drag the tab to a different position in the tab strip, the UI is smoother.
4. Use Ctrl-Shift-T to reopen the last closed tab. Chrome remembers last 10 closed tabs.
5. Many Firefox and windows shortcuts work as expected like Alt-F4 to close current windows, use Ctrl-w to close current tab, Ctrl-Tab to switch to next tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab to switch to previous tab etc.

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The following is a detailed of Google Chrome browser. I have taken it through the paces, tested many features and even tried to run it on Linux. Full article (1470 words) »

The test machine runs on Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 Ghz (x2) with 2GB RAM. I tried loading single page PHP manual (16.5 MB) on Windows Vista from our local server with 100Mbps LAN connecting it. At the same time I was running the Javascript console to measure performance of page loading. I was also searching for the term cgi in the page being loaded. It takes about 2 minutes to load it in Firefox. 20 minutes later the page was still loading in Google Chrome!

The page up / page down keys were pretty unresponsive in the tab as well as the Javascript console. It appears Google Chrome parses pages as it loads the. As of the time of this writing the single tab with PHP manual has consumed 576 MB of RAM and still increasing. I could see the Javascript Console was using the same process which explains which it was hanging along with the browser tab. Read after the break for more details.

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