Best In Youth Media: Google Chrome
Posted by anastasia on 10-16-2008
Today’s Youth Advisory Board feature is from Michael Hayball, our resident computer geek from Michigan. In his opinion, Google Chrome makes the grade for our Best In Youth Media ongoing series where YAB members highlight what they and their friends are into. Remember you can contact our board directly via email at youthadvisoryboard at ypulse.com.
Best In Youth Media: Google Chrome
Google has become a part of our generation’s daily lives. We use it to search for everything from politician’s views to celebrity news, then we email our links with Gmail, and sort our pictures with Picasa. It’s only natural that Google would come out with a web browser to tie in all these services.
Chrome is Google’s entry into the web browser competition between Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, with a bit of Opera and Safari thrown in for good measure. Chrome is exactly what the name infers — shiny and new. Chrome has a new homepage, displaying your most-accessed websites, and all of the relevant menus are thrown into two buttons on the side. All of Chrome is streamlined, even the underlying architecture. Google has made its browser into a mini operating system, complete with a task manager saying what tab is using the most memory!
More importantly, Chrome reflects the bigger trend of young adults wanting a choice between browsers, and who don’t want the default browser that IE is, or the memory hog that Firefox can be. They want a faster, lightweight browser with new ideas like helping them browse their MySpace faster (MySpace works with Chrome to index your messages.) Chrome is the proverbial hip new kid on the block, who has the cred to become popular and just needs time to do so.
About Michael Hayball
Michael lives a simple life in Allen Park, MI. When he is not attending Henry Ford Community College for his Associates, he can be seen chatting and socializing around campus and the local coffee shop. He enjoys a good iced caramel cappuccino, or a regular coca-cola. Michael loves what he calls “The Blog Music,” and he was and still is raised on a steady diet of electronic music and old-school hip hop. Michael hopes to work for Spin magazine one day, and screams like a little girl every time a new issue comes to the local coffee shop.
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October 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I know I sure use chrome as my main browser.
It’s unclear if it will be a major player though as browsers need a lot of promotion and google tends to be bad at promotion.
At the very least it will server as a kick in the ass for FireFox developers. I expect firefox to move in the direction of multiple process as well as a simplified user experience.
but chrome still has a long way to go. it’s a good browser when it comes to the big picture stuff but the small stuff is still lacking. Chrome’s spell check drives me crazy how poor it is (i need the help).