ReIgniting the War of the Browsers

With a new web browser entering the Internet Scene : Google Chrome and with Microsoft being already ready with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 the scene is definitely getting hot.Very soon both Firefox and Chrome would be ported for mobile devices as well.Both IE 8 and Google Chrome provide with Private browsing.Google calls it as Incognito mode.IE 8 auto deletes cookies and Temporary Internet Files as soon as you leave the Private Browsing mode.

Google Chrome version 0.2.149.27

First View :

1 ] Looks very feminine

2 ] Fast and  Quick

3 ] Private Browsing - Incognito Pages

4 ] Has an advanced Gogole Chrome Task manager and memory statistics (about:memory)

5 ] Good view-source:http://www.hp.com/ (View Source Option) with line numbers

6 ] Doesn't save webpages (full) as .mht but saves it like the legacy IE way.

7 ] Has chrome-source (Inspect Element) option to examine every component on the page

8 ] Keeps on contacting im-YY-fXXX.google.com where X = some number and YY = country      Short Prefix eg. im-uk-f123.google.com

9 ] On every GET request the User-Agent sent is

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.1

10] Has stolen "Duplicate Tab" option from opera but doesn't duplicate in the same window,  instead opens a new Window

11] Lacks a good Full Screen View Option

 

There are already 2 publically disclosed bugs available to test for Chrome:

Google Chrome Browser Automatic File Download - 

http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6355

And Google Chrome Crashes with All Tabs - 

http://evilfingers.com/advisory/google_chrome_poc.php

Google Chrome is available at :

 http://www.google.com/chrome

 Microsoft Internet Explorer Beta 2 is available at : 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx

Take your Pick !

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