OK, about an hour or so ago Google launched a new browser called Google chrome. This was in actual fact a mistake, they accidentally launched some of the material about it yesterday so today they decided to come clean, explain and then release.

First, the download link: Google Chrome

Suffice to say, me being me, I have read most of the info about it now and have just installed a copy. The only things really that make it any different from any browser should be that it has tabs on the top, its faster and its more stable than anything else.

But before I get to what it looks like, here is what happened when I tried to install it on my machine:

Basically it tried to shove itself in my auto run before anything else. This strikes me as just not needed and annoying at best. No idea why they needed to do that, i don’t have it set to feedback data to them (You get asked at the point where you download, not in the browser once its up and running, so the installer should not need anything here!). In short, Google, not a good start.

OK, once I gave it a bit more room to move it was installed:

Not bad looking, it works with Aero in Vista which is good enough for me. Interface is very light. Not impressed I don’t seem able to change the quick-start links that come up when you go to a new tab, they change themselves… I would of thought of all the people in the world Google would be happy to make it easier to let me get to what I want to.

Not been looking long, but one thing I did notice which hasn’t impressed me… I would have thought a modern browser, especially made by the kings of speed would be light. Now maybe I’m behind the time but last I looked over 62MB wasn’t small. Especially when I had Digg, The register and Google open.

This said, it is very very fast. Not sure if that’s enough to move me away from a very nice and well suited Firefox setup for me, we will see.