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10 Ways Chrome is Different from Firefox & IE

Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 305 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other

Google's has released its own open-source browser, Chrome, in direct competition to Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Yesterday, Danny described his test-drive of Chrome in Searching With Google Chrome & Omnibox and Greg speculated on its future in How Bright Is The Outlook For Chrome?. Both compared Google's new browser to the incumbents, Firefox and Internet Explorer. But Chrome is actually very different from those two browsers, and significantly different from nearly everything else on the market. Here are the 10 major features that truly differentiate Google Chrome from the competition:

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from JohnHGohde 305 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Gee, what a web developer needs to know is how Chrome responds to CSS differently from IE and FF. Now, can somebody please comment on stuff that webmasters might actually give a hoot about?

from promotiondata 304 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Can't seem to download Google's toolbar mainly to keep a note of page rankings, that is compatible with Chrome. I find that amusing.
Or am I missing someting? I mean, surely Google would release a browser that accomodates it's own creations?

from EliFeldblum 304 days ago #

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Yeah, I'm waiting for that too. Google just opened up Chrome to 3rd-party apps, so I guess their own Toolbar won't be far behind...

from erich 304 days ago #

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I really think Opera should be included in this comparison.

from NickWilsdon 304 days ago #

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Re: #10 - Firefox also uses the Google Safe Browsing API when you search. I believe they are identical in this respect. Agree with the other points though.

Agree with @erich though, would have been good to see where Opera fitted in here.

I think the biggest issue for us will be how Chrome treats CSS. From the early reports I have seen, it is doing this differently from FF. That is going to cause a real headache for developers. We already test in 4 browsers, now it will be 5 :(

from onreact 304 days ago #

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Here are 10 more ;-) - http://sphinn.com/story/70279

from tommys5 304 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Not a well thought out posting... Chrome's growing list of security problems are showing up daily: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/security_flaw_in_google_chrome.php

And the contention it was built from the ground up. So sez who????
Don't they all say that? Every car manufacturer similarly makes bald-ass claims about total redesigns and unparalleled excellence.

Stay out of the marketing biz, would you?

from IncrediBILL 304 days ago #

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I knew someone would Sphinn a list about Chrome and rehash the basics that Google already published, amazing.

Here's some Google didn't tell you, the user agent in case you want to check your logs to see how fast Chrome is being adopted:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"

from yojpotter2 304 days ago #

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Chrome is really nice...I love the way they set up the address box..which also doubles as a search box..^^

from IncrediBILL 304 days ago #

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The address box doubles as a search box in Firefox too, or hadn't you noticed?

from IncrediBILL 304 days ago #

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@John -
"what a web developer needs to know is how Chrome responds to CSS differently from IE and FF."

If you paid attention it's the Safari Webkit so if you know how Safari responds to CSS you already know.

If you don't know how Safari responds, find a new vocation quick.

from oldschool 303 days ago #

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Is it me, or does anyone else think Google did themselves a disservice by releasing this before the kinks were ironed out? They had to know that the search engine marketing community would be among the first to "check it out" and the reviews I have read from reputable sources (and many other Sphinns) are less than rave.

from NickWilsdon 303 days ago #

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@oldschool

I agree. Also it seems some of these "new" features are not quite as revolutionary as they suggest (or has been suggested for them by other blogs/reviews).

from IncrediBILL 303 days ago #

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I don't think Google cares what the search engine marketing community thinks at this point as it's the other 99.999999% of the online community they're trying to attract and the timing was perfect to upstage MSIE 8 and the new Firefox 3.

In other words, it's the oldest trick in the book used often by Microsoft, announce and release beta early to create FUD in the marketplace.

from Jamie@BlueDuckCopy 293 days ago #

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I was all ready to give it a go, but it turns out Chrome Beta is only for WINDOWS! What a disappointment, considering it's based on Safari!

from NickWilsdon 292 days ago #

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@Jamie

CodeWeavers have just released a port of Chromium for Mac and Linux users. I'll be giving it a go myself on Ubuntu today.

http://sphinn.com/story/72915