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Google's Browser Launches; And Gmail's Fast

This story was written by Rafat Ali.


The much anticipated (ok, only since noon yesterday) has launched. Simple installation, and ability to allow setting export from Firefox/Mozilla, as is to be expected. Gmail, the e-mail service from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), is noticeably faster..other sites don't seem all that faster than on Firefox. Make no mistake: this is a browser meant to search....anything. From your browsing history to searching various Google services. It is making is dead simple to do that. The browser address bar is the one bar to do all of that, it hoopes, and has built that in.

Top 10 features of Google Chrome, as it sees it, in the video below:

A lot of these features are there in Firefox and the new IE...Google just makes it slicker.


By Rafat Ali

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