Heard of it? No? Well, neither did I. Today when I started my Internet Explorer 7 and went to Google’s Search Engine to search for some “research material” and there it was. Google Chrome - the latest browser from Google. And because I cannot help myself, I decided to have to try at the new browser. I mean, it is from Google for god’s sake. It should at least be usable.

For those who would like to have a go at the browser, please go to Google Chrome Site. I am not too sure the exact size of the download but it should be relatively small as compared to Internet Explorer. Perhaps about the same size as the minimal Firefox browser. Anyway, it downloaded fast on my Internet connection, so I guess most of you guys should be okay. Installation was fine, no problems encountered. And I started my first look at the new browser.

What caught my eye was that it is very minimalistic. If you look at Internet Explorer or Firefox, you will be greeted at the tgop with several menu bars which takes up real estate on your browser. This leaves you with less space for the actually browser. But not Chrome. If you have a small screen, then you will really love Chrome. It comes with just a tab and a address bar/navigation for you to key in the URL. Simple. If you are using a slower system, you will also appreciate the fast loading, startup and rendering of Chrome. Feels a lot like Opera when you doing your surfing. Actually not bad. I always enjoyed a fast browser.

Well, I will update you guys on this after I played with it for a while. This is just a quick preview. So after, I didn’t encounter any problems with any site. Rendering webpages seems fine (and fast) for most part. However, one wonders why it is called Chrome when there is no chrome? But I think this question is best left to the wise men to figure it out.