So now i know why Google pulled the plug with the good old “Support Firefox Buttons” in Google Adsense account where you could make a dollar by convincing your website visitors to switch to Firefox. But then that ad unit ended with no solid reason. Google must be planning for its upcoming browser Chrome so they simply pulled the plug on “Switch to Firefox” and came up with “Faster Web Browser, Download Google Chrome” which appeared on linked in and i just saw there 300px ad unit on my blog served by Adsense.

Google Advertising Chrome

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So finally Google jumps into the browser world and comes with the most simpler form of its browser called Chrome.

Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

So today we’re releasing the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome.

Being in the beta phase Chrome seems like a minimal browser with a very few handpicked features by Google. If i compare Google’s Chrome with other browsers of the industry then in terms of features and functionality Chrome is way behind Firefox or even IE. Yes Chrome is minimal with a nice simple design not over cluttered with features and functionality works quite quickly but it does crash, it does not improve or enhance your browser experience, very little option of customization & of course a long way to go for Google to have a huge user base for Chrome. (more…)