About Google Chrome: The Features & Video Tutorial

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Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Read about why we built a browser.

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Web search. Web history. Address bar. Suggestions as you type. One unified box serves all your browsing needs. Learn more.

Every time you open a new tab, you'll see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs. Learn more.

Use web apps without opening your browser. Application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps. Learn more.

You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish -- quickly and easily. Learn more.

Every tab you're using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won't take anything else down. Learn more.

Don't want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing. Learn more.

Google Chrome warns you if you're about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website. Learn more.

Want to bookmark a web page? Just click the star icon at the left edge of the address bar and you're done. Learn more.

When you switch to Google Chrome, you can pick up where you left off with all the bookmarks and passwords from your existing browser. Learn more.

No intrusive download manager; you see your download's status at the bottom of your current window. Learn more.

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The story behind Google Chrome

Watch a video from the development team on the thinking and features behind Google Chrome.

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Read about the technology

Look under the hood of Google Chrome in this comics interpretation of key engineering decisions, by Scott McCloud.

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Google Chrome: Defining the Logo

By now you’ve all probably been playing with Google Chrome, the search engine giant’s new browser (well, unless you’re on a Mac or Linux, that is).

By now you’ve all probably been playing with Google Chrome, the search engine giant’s new browser (well, unless you’re on a Mac or Linux, that is).


One thing that many people are wondering about is what’s up with Google Chrome’s logo? Philipp thinks that it’s a combination of Pokémon’s Poké Ball, the Simon toy (see also this post on Digital Inspiration)
















Well, I say there’s something else. See that glowing blue eye? It’s absolutely, definitely and surely positively from SAL 9000,..( ho?...click here for a SAL 9000 history lesson )
SAL 9000 was the Earthbound twin of the HAL 9000 computer in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Huh? There are two of ‘em? Yep: HAL has a red eye, SAL has a blue eye.)

And here’s a YouTube clip of SAL 9000 (voiced by Candice Bergen, actually) from 2010: The Year We Make Contact (based on Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two)

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Google Chrome for Mac OSX is in Developement

Google Chrome for Mac is in development
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