By: Aseem Gaurav on June 29, 2012
Just hours after Google announced at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco that the popular Chrome browser is coming to iOS devices, it went live at the Apple’s App Store.
The general look and feeling of the browser is almost same as it is desktop: the tabs are top and URL below for web browsing. However, one interesting addition is in form of menu button on the right hand side, which is not found in Safari, which is the default browser of the iPad. Also, just like the desktop, the address bar on Chrome for iOS can be used for both search and URLs. As usual, while opening a blank tab, you will be provided with thumbnails of your most viewed pages. Chrome for iOS allows you to create Incognito tabs for anonymous browsing, which ensures that the sites you go to aren't logged in your history and cookies get deleted. Further, it is easy to toggle between Incognito and non-Incognito tabs by tapping on the screen.
Other striking features built into Chrome for iOS include: ability to clear your browser data from right within the app and saving passwords.
At the bottom of the page, there is a section for all your bookmarks. One major useful feature of the browser comes in form of “Other Devices” which basically loads your current and recent tabs on any other device which you’ve signed onto using Chrome. For instance, it will make easy for a user to what he was doing while using the Mac.
Overall, the browser is impressive which offers almost all major features that you hope for to switch from Safari. But you may get a little disappointment in terms of overall speed which is because of the restriction that Apple places on browsers in iOS.
Download the browser here.
Just hours after Google announced at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco that the popular Chrome browser is coming to iOS devices, it went live at the Apple’s App Store.
The general look and feeling of the browser is almost same as it is desktop: the tabs are top and URL below for web browsing. However, one interesting addition is in form of menu button on the right hand side, which is not found in Safari, which is the default browser of the iPad. Also, just like the desktop, the address bar on Chrome for iOS can be used for both search and URLs. As usual, while opening a blank tab, you will be provided with thumbnails of your most viewed pages. Chrome for iOS allows you to create Incognito tabs for anonymous browsing, which ensures that the sites you go to aren't logged in your history and cookies get deleted. Further, it is easy to toggle between Incognito and non-Incognito tabs by tapping on the screen.
Other striking features built into Chrome for iOS include: ability to clear your browser data from right within the app and saving passwords.
At the bottom of the page, there is a section for all your bookmarks. One major useful feature of the browser comes in form of “Other Devices” which basically loads your current and recent tabs on any other device which you’ve signed onto using Chrome. For instance, it will make easy for a user to what he was doing while using the Mac.
Overall, the browser is impressive which offers almost all major features that you hope for to switch from Safari. But you may get a little disappointment in terms of overall speed which is because of the restriction that Apple places on browsers in iOS.
Download the browser here.
