Advantages and Disadvantages of Google Chrome?

 Advantages and Disadvantages of Google Chrome?

Google Chrome is remarkably fast. During our timed trials, Chrome initialized our site in 1.5 seconds. That time stayed consistent during subsequent refreshes. Navigation from one site to another ran at a modest 5.3 seconds. That aspect kept it from ranking as the fastest browser.

Google has taken initiative in making Chrome very compatible with the internet. Chrome was specifically designed to quickly and efficiently load, display and interact with the vast array of applications on the web, boasting a built-in Flash and PDF reader. The synchronization between your smartphone and your desktop browser makes saving favorites and making bookmarks a seamless process.

Most internet browsers are built for function over form, but Google Chrome succeeds in both. The layout is clean, intuitive and well organized, and Chrome manages a level of simplicity other internet browsers lack. Its features are clearly designed for efficiency and ease of use, and you can search and navigate from the same box. Furthermore, the browser allows you to conveniently create shortcuts to web applications you regularly use, which you can place on your desktop for quick and easy access.



Launched in 2008, Google Chrome is a free web browser created by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine.  Google Chrome is known for its very simplistic and minimalistic design and touted as the fastest browser out there.  Google Chrome is currently the most widely used web browser with a worldwide usage of approximately 33%.

Here are Advantages and Disadvantages of Google Chrome:

Advantages:

• Chrome is an extremely fast web browser; it loads and displays pages very quickly.
• You can drag tabs out into separate windows, without difficulty, and back in again with your mouse.
• Google Chrome has a very basic, simple design, making it easy to use.
• The start-up page lists the most frequent pages you’ve visited and allows you to click and access them with ease.
• Chrome automatically translates pages into a language you understand for your convenience.
• You can search the internet through your address bar at any time.
• If a site crashes on one of your tabs, other open tabs will not be affected. 
• You may browse the internet without being logged using Chrome’s new private feature: Incognito.
• Unlike Firefox and Safari, you can alter the colour and theme of the browser.
• Chrome is faster than Explorer and FireFox.
• Chrome takes only seconds to install.
•  Incognito mode: Click the control icon in the upper right corner of the browser and you'll get the option to open a new tab, a new window, or a new incognito window. Incognito window will fire up without appearing in browser or search history, and it won't leave cookies or any other traces of your activity, except files you've downloaded or bookmarks. Yes, Safari has it, too, but it's a nice jab at Firefox which skipped some similar privacy features in version 3.0.
• Easy to switch: When you're entering a saturated market with a new product, you can't change everything. You must carefully balance the features you want to blatantly copy with the ones you want to innovate in. I was pleased to see that Google Chrome was built with this in mind; for example, it's easy to switch from Firefox, but it does bring enough novelties to make you stick around. Importing your bookmarks from Firefox is easy and works well; and other details, like keyboard shortcuts, are the same. Therefore, Chrome's learning curve is virtually non-existent; start it up and you'll be browsing as usual in no time.
• Has its own task manager: Chrome treats tabbed windows as separate processes. Nice, we've already seen that in IE8, right? But Chrome also has a nifty way to see what's going on: a task manager. Similar to the task manager in Windows, it lets you see which processes are active (inside Chrome), and how much memory, CPU, and network resources they use. Beautiful. You can access it by right clicking Chrome's title bar.

Disadvantages:

• Chrome uses up a lot of memory (RAM) when running it.
• If you accidentally close the browser, Chrome will close all the tabs opened without warning.