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Differences in User Interface Between Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9

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Microsoft has release its latest Internet Explorer 9 to compete with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Google Chrome is fairly new browser compared to Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. But Chrome is currently the top rated and most used browser because of its very simple and efficient user interface which gives the maximum viewing area avoiding additional toolbars other than the must have address bar. In Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft also tried to attain this by putting the address bar and the Website Tabs in one row.

Lets have detailed comparison of User Interface between Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9.

Title Bar

Title Bar of Google Chrome

Title Bar of Internet Explorer 9

Title bar is the top most section of a window which contains the minimize, maximize and the close buttons. In Google Chrome smartly utilized this area for showing the Website tabs. But in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, they just wasted that area. Chrome scored in this section.

Address Bar

Address Bar of Google Chrome

Address Bar of Internet Explorer 9

Google Chrome was the first browser to come with a smart address bar powered by Google Search. When we start typing in the address bar the browser will search for the typed keyword and suggest what we are going to type. And also it will suggest popular sites which may be we are intending to surf. The Address bar also acts as the home for all the Extensions and Browser Navigation buttons like Back, Forward, Stop and  Reload. I will call it a very smart move.

In case of IE 9 the address bar is also shared for showing Website Tabs which is not so good looking. When the Google Chrome provides a much longer elegant looking address bar, IE 9 features a shorter address bar which makes the user not able to view the full url of the website. Sharing of address bar for tabs is also a bad idea. When multiple tabs are opened it will make the users difficult to identified the tab since the tab is shrined to a very narrow width.

Google Chrome only allows the user to search Google using the address bar search. But in IE9 users can add the search provider of his own interest.

Viewing Area

The sole purpose of web browser is to show the website to users. So the most important in user interface designing for a browser is the viewing area of the browser. When introduced Google Chrome was the browser which provides the maximum viewing area. But newly introduced Internet Explorer 9 has packed its components in such way that it overtook Google Chrome in this. IE9 now provides more area for viewing sites than Google Chrome does.

Status Bar

Both of the browsers eliminated a mere status bar to show the status of the website and its loading. Instead Google Chrome used a rotating circle to show the status of the loading, which is more than enough status for the user. But in IE 9 i haven’t found any status monitoring to indicating whether the site is loading. Thats a major flaw in IE9.

Task Bar

Even though task bar is not part of the browser but i felt it is necessary to mention it along with this to point out a very handy feature provided by the IE 9. When multiple tabs a re opened, you can see the thumbnails of all the tabs if your point your mouse cursor on the IE icon on the taskbar. This feature is not yet available in Google Chrome. Here Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 scored.

Over All

Even though Microsoft has made much effort to regain its position in Web Browser I dont think with IE 9 they just can’t overtake Google Chrome.

Google Chrome 6.0 Released, What’s New in Google Chrome 6?

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Google released the first stable build for Chrome 6. The new stable version of Chrome is faster and more streamlined. Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance. Google Chrome team combined Chrome’s two menus into one, revisited the location of the buttons, cleaned up the treatment of the URL and the Omnibox, and adjusted the color scheme of the browser to be easier on the eyes. Download Google Chorme 6.

Chrome 6 adds support for form autofill and you can now synchronize autofill data, extensions and all their settings. Extension sync is probably the coolest new feature in Chrome 6 because you can take your extensions with you, not matter what computer your are using.

New Form AutoFill for Google Chrome 6

The old Chrome: The very first beta!

Chrome 6: Google's brand new release.

Google Chrome Has More Than 7o Million Active Users

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Yesterday Google show an interesting chart during the first Google I/O keynote. The Google Chrome users has increased dramatically in the last year. The count doubled from 30 to 70 million in the short span of one year. The count is of active users, not just the downloads. Chrome’s support for extensions was recently introduced which caused a rapid growth of the browser. Also upcoming Chrome App Store and Chrome OS will definitely increase the number of Chrome users.

Anyhow the Mozilla Firefox still remain in the top position among the web browsers. Firefox has 350 Million users currently.

Google buys a new korean Blogging company

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Last Day Google announce that they are going to buy a south korean company named  Tatter and company or TNC to expand their power and in a bid to expand the internet searh leaders to reach the asia.TNC is a creation of Chang-Won Kim and chester Roh and it is a parent of the blogging platform called Textcube.

By buying the korean company google is really trying to increase their technology.I think this step wil help the google to improve their techiques for the web development and synthesising blog content similar to Google’s 2003 Blogger platform.

The officials said that Google has really troubled to stand in korean market because many Internet users there are locked into Web portal-style services.By their new project they thinks that the can increase their hands over the internet.

Currently Google owns a blogging platform-Blogger which is a known rival to the WordPress.By buying the TNC company Google will be able to make a lead over the wordpress.

“Google isn’t entitled with God-given right to become #1 in every region it operates in, just because it’s Google,” he wrote. “It’s actually more about the Korean Web industry than about Google.Now i think that without google their is no internet….

Google prepares to launch HTC Android phone

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Google which is one of the world’s top brand is now with a new mission, to make a place for themselves in the highly competitive mobile world.The new phone powered by Google is set to launch , ready to face off against Apple’s iPhone in the run .

The long-awaited smart phone, called “G1”, will be manufactured by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC and will be available exclusively on T-Mobile in the UK.

The mobile, already dubbed the “G-phone,” will run on Android, Google’s new software for mobile phones. It will be launched in New York , and will be available in the US by next month. It is anticipated that the phone will be available in British stores by November.

The G1 is expected to cost about $199 (£108), which would be around the same cost as basic 8GB version of the iPhone.

But as per the photos and videos of the expected device, along with screenshots released by the search giant, show that the device is likely to have a touchscreen like the iPhone but also a slide-out Qwerty keyboard.

The phone is expected to have as built-in GPS (global positioning system), a tilt sensor for gaming, and a camera. It is thought it will be able to run Google’s range of web applications, including Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps, and will likely also feature Google’s new web browser, Chrome.

The arrival of the first G-phone is the opening round in the battle to create and control the software that will run the next generation of mobile phone that will be able to access the Internet.

 Android, is expected to put Google’s new browser at the forefront of the G-phones, enabling the internet giant to tap into this audience.

There are more Android powered phones set for launch next year, with manufacturers LG and Samsung set to unveil their first mobile phones that run on Google’s new software next year.

Let’s wait for the new G-phone to reach the indian market…………………

Do all PCs lead to Chrome????……….

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I have been playing with Google Chrome for some days now and am quite happy with it, except for a few niggles here and there, which makes me go back to Firefox every now and then.

The installation is easy and quick. You download a less than half MB installer and then fire it up for a roughly 7 MB Chrome installation.

The setup process allows you to download your preferences, settings, passwords and favourites from Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla FireFox (FF). You can choose not to import settings at that time and Chrome will allow you to import settings later.

I installed Chrome at home first, and the installation was a breeze. I had problems with the second part of the installation download (the 7 MB part) at work. I figured it was because of the proxy connection and have this suggestion to make to Google: make available a zip or exe installer for such connections, otherwise a whole lot of Internet users through enterprise proxy connections might not be able to give it a try.

Starting up Chrome for the first time was refreshing: very clean and lots of space for the content.

The translation of Google’s philosophy for the design of its Web services to this desktop application is near perfect. The tabs go on top, where you see the title bar for most other applications. There is just a single menu bar incorporating the basic back, forward, and refresh buttons, bookmark button, the omnibox, and the page and settings buttons.

The omnibox is a more powerful address bar, making suggestions for Web sites and for search.

I ran into my first gripe about three minutes into using Chrome: I was in the Google Chrome download page  and wanted to send it to a friend, and there is no “send this link” or “send this page” option. I share a lot of links and Web pages this way and it was a big downer for me.

A few minutes later, I was downloading a video to my desktop. It was a fairly large file, around 65 MB, and I moved on to other things, in different tabs.

After a while, I was a little tired and distracted and closed the Chrome window and it just closed all the tabs and cancelled my download as well. No warning about closing/saving tabs; No maintaining a download in a separate window.

I also missed using my favourite FF extensions, especially the web developer toolbar. If you have a few extensions that you think you can’t do without, then it’s too bad for Chrome.

Of course, the browser is still in beta and, Google is likely to sort most of these problems out before the final product is released.

Nice touches too

 

 

Oh, and in case you think I am becoming too critical about Chrome, it is only because of the very high expectations we tend to have for any new product or service from Google. In fact, it has quite a few things going for it.

Anecdotal evidence shows that the browser is significantly faster.

It also helps speed up the browsing experience with its new tab page that gives you a snapshot of your most visited pages, gives you a link to your history, as well as allows you to search your history.

I like that the entire browser doesn’t come to a standstill when one of the pages/tabs crashes.

You also get an “incognito” mode which is for anonymous browsing as far as leaving traces in your PC goes, meaning that no cookies, no history and no temporary files will be saved from those sessions. The data will still be available to logging applications and other snoops. This is a feature that is available in the IE 8 beta as well.

You can create application shortcuts for your Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs, and Chrome will display those sites like a desktop application, without the address bar and navigation.

You can move a tab out into a separate window if you are the kind that likes to keep their browsing organised even as you drill down and investigate links from various Web sites.

A nice touch is that the URL in the address bar is colour-coded, with only the URL showing up in black and the rest of the address in grey. Also “https” is shown in green when you are in a secure site.

Too subtle at times

 

 

Sometimes, the nice touches are too nice, too subtle. We are so used to seeing a dialog box when we initiate a download in IE or FF that when Chrome shows an unobtrusive band at the bottom of the screen after initiating a download, we tend to miss it and hit the download button a couple more times. Thankfully, that is only the default behaviour and we can make Chrome ask for the download location for each file in the “minor tweaks” tab in the options dialog under the settings menu.

I also like the extra screen space it offers to content, especially on my laptop which has a fairly small 13.3-inch screen. But I also don’t use it all the time in my laptop because I use the fingerprint software to store usernames and passwords for my most important work Web sites.

So, finally: Should you dump Internet Explorer or Firefox for Google Chrome? Not yet. Should you give it a whirl? Definitely, yes. You might like it and use it exclusively if you are not a techie or if you use a laptop with a small screen.

Google Chrome-Hidden Tricks

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 Google Chrome Tricks :-

1. You can drag a link onto a tab to it , or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab as in Fireofx 3.
2. Control +B : shows/Hides the bookmark’s bar.
3. Control + H :History page will open.
4. Control + J : Opens the download page.
5. Right-click on item and click Remove removes the selected item from the download page.
6. Right-click the top of the browser window, select Task manager to find out how much memory tabs and plug-ins are taking from your computer to work. Select one of them and click End process to stop it Grunning.
7. Control + Shift + N : Opens the famous “incognito” windows. it will allows you to browse the web without saving any cookies and history.
9. Alt + Home : Loads your Google Chrome home page along with thumbnails of your most visited sites.
10. Control + T :New Tab will be opened.
11. Control + Shift + T : Opens your most recently closed tab. Press this key combination again to open the tab closed before the one you just opened.
12. Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. : By suing like this you can jump to different tabs.
13. Control + Tabs : Lets you open tabs in order.
14. Aboutlugins (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what plug-in you are using.
15. about:crash (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what a crashed tab looks like.
16. To know more information about Google Chrome you can also type in the address bar the following commands: abouttats, about:network, about:histograms, about:memory, about:cache, about:internets.
17. To delete all of your data stored into Google Chrome: click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data…
18. Shift + Escape: Lets you bring up the Google Chrome Task manager. 

19.Don’t type % in the address bar it may crash your Browser.

Add Google Toolbar to Google Chrome.There  are many other tips and tricks for google chrome.I only added the most needed and useful tips in this site.if u want more tips u plz comment  on the topic..

Drawbacks I Felt After Using Google Chrome

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I was using Google Chrome for the last day. It is very simple and in case of speed browsing i felt very comfort in using it. But to the deeps, it lacks some good features which is packed along wiht firefox. Auto fill in text boxes which is a very usefull and handy feature in firefox is missing in chrome. While talking you may wonder that is it that much a drawback, but it is when you try to fill in a form or to login on a website which you regularly sign in. While typing the username firefox will list the usernames this feature is missing in chrome. that all for now  , I ll update when anything else is noted.

Google Chrome – Google Introduces New Web Browser, Faster and Simple

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Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or “chrome”, of web browsers. Chromium is the name of the open source project behind Google Chrome, released under the BSD license. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

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Google Chrome has a very simply user interface with lite graphics and simple desgin. As my review I had done the fastest browsing in google chrome. Always Google will bring out the best in class. This time too google prooved thier metal. Most probably Chrome will be the king of browsers soon.