Google Chrome

Google Chrome is one of the fastest and most standards-compliant browsers available. It lacks some of the fine-tuning you’ll find in Firefox, but from the minimalist interface to support for future-Web tech like Native Client and HTML5, the browser is a must.

Google Chrome has matured from a lightweight and fast browsing alternative into an innovative, standard-bearing browser that people love. It’s powerful enough to drive its own operating system, Chrome OS. The browser that people can use today, Chrome 20, offers highly competitive features, including synchronization, autofill, and standards compliance, and maintains Google’s reputation for building one of the fastest browsers available. Chrome is based on WebKit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google’s Android mobile platform, and several other desktop and mobile Web-browsing tools. However, Chrome runs on a different JavaScript engine than its WebKit cousins, and there are other changes as well. Chrome offers malware scanning on Web pages to include downloads, and the precaching tool for loading sites in your search results early now works with the Omnibox location bar.

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