Why Google Chrome

Google has launched new browser Chrome. Why Google Apps users should use Google Chrome?

Google Chrome like many other free products (Google Apps, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Apple's iTunes etc) is another attempt to gain control over a critical aspect of your day to day computing. Google is obviously not doing charity to to give away free products like Google Apps and Google Chrome. Leave aside the great reasons the comic like strip Google has provided while launching the Chrome - there is an inherent reason why they have launched Google Chrome.

Considering that future is more in the cloud and most of the applications (including Google Apps) will be accessed through a web browser. If Google owns your browser, and it's the search engine you already use, and, perhaps, it's the online calendar and e-mail system you use, its docs (Google Docs), wiki (Google Sites) you use - then all the dots start to be connected. Suppose - using Google services become as comparable as Microsoft Office then you will have no reason to leave your browser (read Google Chrome) at any time in your day-to-day computing. Making Google Apps services faster and easy to access is very crucial for Google and depending on other browsers may not help them. That is the reason they have to come up with their own browser. Making the search integrated to url address bar has ensured that once you have selected Google as search engine - the others search engines will never get a chance. Google Chrome is part of a well laid out plan to remove supremacy of competitors.

Obviously, I can see my Gmail is faster in Google Chrome and Google docs and sites open really fast when using Chrome. However that is not the case with some other sites /applications I use - where I find Firefox to be better. But if you are a Google Apps user it will be more sense to use Google Chrome.

I am for now using both Google Chrome and Firefox and IE rarely. if you need you can download Google Chrome from:

http://www.google.com/chrome