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Google Chrome is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Read about why we built a browser.

Speed: Fast to launch, fast to load web pages

• Quick to start up from your desktop
• Loads web pages in a snap
• Runs web applications faster than ever

Simplicity: Designed for efficiency and ease of use

• Search and navigate to web pages from the same box
• Arrange and organize tabs however you wish — quickly and easily
• Get to your favorite websites with just a click, from the thumbnails of your most visited sites in the New Tab page

Download: Google Chrome

Review:

Google Chrome plates, a tempting idea: to take best existing browsers and to add new functionalities to create the browser of the 21^st century. On this very competing market, the bet is dared and the stake of size, even for a giant.

Google Chrome proposes a minimalist and effective interface. It offers known functionalities, starting page which gathers the 9 most consulted sites in the window. The address bar (sometimes called the Omnibox) improved which mixes historical, mark-pages and popular research to offer more relevant results.

A mode Private life allows of surf without leaving traces on hard drive. The developers of Google Chrome conceived the software architecture of their browser from zero to support stability, the speed and safety. A bug on a page or an attack since a malevolent site remains confined in a restricted space which does not compromise the browser as a whole. To improve safety, an updated black list permanently protects the user from the dangerous sites. Lastly, Google Gears is directly integrated in Google Chrome to deal with the functionalities.

Carrier of a long term vision, Google Chrome has technical qualities with the measurement of its ambitions. Its success could change the face of the Web radically.