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Have you try the new Browser by Google, Google Chrome? I have tried it a while, therefore i wrote this article, this is my short personal review about this browser. I think this will be useful for users who are not sure yet whether need to switch their favorite browser to this one or not.

In my opinion, from it’s main function as a web browser, Google Chrome is quite reasonable to be compared with other top browsers like IE and Firefox. After I tried this browser, I found some fact about the plus and minus from this browser, according to my experience personally. The following is the plus and minus in my opinion:

Google Chrome Browser’s plus:
1. Opening the browser application on Windows is taking no time, almost same or even faster than opening Windows Explorer, only need about 1-2 seconds. Of course this depends from your computer specs too.
3. No need to install Flash or Java (already included on the installation).
4. Automatic bookmark for all sites we visited; history, most visited, recently closed tab, etc.
5. Using smaller memory if compared with another browsers. Google Chrome used memory less than 20MB, and average per tab is 4-20 MB.
6. The better anti-crash system with per-tab memory allocation, so that if there is a tab in browser crashed, Chrome will only close that tab, not the entire browser like other browser does.
7. Better anti-phishing system promised by Google, or at least same quality as other browser.
8. The address bar, place to type web address can be used to search anything. Just type keyword on address bar and hit enter (integrated with Google search engine).

Google Chrome minus:
1. None (yet) supporting add-ons like Mozilla Firefox.
2. Less secure than Firefox, possible it still have backdoor just like in Safari, therefore Chrome is not a good choice to used in money-related transaction on Internet.
3. Because it still in Beta version, possible there are some bugs that not found yet, which possibly can make Windows system crash.
4. Only available for Windows XP and Vista version.
5. For every opened tabs, Chrome will usually allocating another memory, therefore when you run Windows Task Manager (ctrl + alt + del), you will see many used memory resources especially if you opened many tabs at once.
6. There is still bug on Chrome RSS Feed system, therefore the RSS Feed usage on Chrome is not optimal yet.

Well, if you’re curious, you can try it by yourself. To download, go to http://www.google.com/chrome.