Released Chrome for iOS, and it is wonderful

Last night Google released the iOS-version of its Chrome browser. Fans 'Chromium' may be disappointed. It's not quite the browser that they were waiting for: the program uses webkit in epplovskoy implementation, and for processing JavaScript is not used the famous engine V8. Moreover, they say that the mobile "Chrome" handles js-scripts three times more slowly than it does Safari.

However, ordinary users, not geeks will be glad to the new browser. Several things Google has done better than Apple. For example, in a version for the iPhone is much better arranged to work with tabs. They appear like a stack of pages. You will not have long to scroll left and right, if a lot of tabs open, as is the case with mobile Safari on iPhone. And to find the desired tab is faster.

Omnibar, it is combining the address bar and search form working quite luxurious. You can type the website address more quickly than is the case with Safari. It is unfortunate that Apple did not dare to combine the search form and the address bar in Safari for the iPhone.

iPad-version of the browser Google Chrome

Like many other browsers, mobile "Chrome" allows you to search the voice. You simply touch the microphone icon in the address bar and tell a search query. Russian-language queries the quality of recognition - is high enough, it is already possible to use.

good speech recognition

I liked very much how to implement private browsing mode. Mode "incognito" is switched to a new tab just two tapas. This is very useful if you keep in mind that Safari users have to go to the iOS Settings (!), There to seek safari and include private mode and then back to the browser.

Chrome browser would be ideal, if not two "but". First, in the "chrome" no mode "Text Only" (Reader-mode). Page is always shown "as is" - with all the banners and distracting materials. Safari developers on this issue rose to the occasion. The second "but" - this is Apple restrictions. Alas, you can not make Chrome the default browser. You will run it, "climb" on sites, etc. However, as soon as click on the link in the email, twitter client, chat, open Safari is.

general impression

Mobile "Chrome" very much. And a familiar interface (on a new page, a list of frequently visited sites, for example), and those than have data synchronization with desktop version. He is so good that there was reason to think about the jailbreak to make Chrome the main browser. And this is probably the first Google iOS-app that does not cause great criticism.

→Google Chrome on the App Store (is free)