Dublin Opinion

Google have just released their new browser, Google Chrome (available to download here). I’ve been using Firefox for the past four years, and apart from the odd stubborn Microsoft site it’s been fine - that is, until they released Firefox 3.0, which has a nasty habit of freezing and crashing all the time. So much so that I had to uninstall it and go back to Firefox 2.0.0.16, which I found here. I’ve never warmed to Explorer so I’m willing to give Chrome a try - even though I know that it’s picking up everything and sending it back to HQ.

First impression of Chrome is that it seems a mixture of Firefox and Opera, with the annoying habit of storing all your most popular web pages as tabs on the opening page. All well and good if you´re on the straight and narrow, but when your web page tastes stretch to, ahem, the exotic, shall we say, then having them greet you when you open up is not the most gentle way to start the day - especially if your PC/Laptop is of the shared variety. Oh well.

Google Chrome, however, has a solution. There’s an option to surf with Google Incognito, which Google explains as thus:

Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.

Hurray for the Google Overlords!