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First look at Google Chrome

Yesterday Google inadvertantly disclosed that it was planning to release a browser called Chrome when the Google Blogoscoped blog was sent (and it seems received a couple of days early) a comic book outlining some of the browsers new features. Today we get to see the browser first-hand.
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Contributing Writer
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Installation

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Installation

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Installation ... whole process took seconds!

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And it's running!

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Very fast page rendering

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Very clean and simple interface

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Controls for current page

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Customize and control Google Chrome

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Options page 1

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Options page 2

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Options page 3

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Task manager showing separate processes for tabs and plugins

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Nerd stats showing, well, more stats!

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Dragging a tab out of the browser is a snap!

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Snap!

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So is dragging it back in!

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Google Chrome takes the effort out of downloads

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Download come in ...

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Options to handle downloads

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Lanching a window in Incognito mode ...

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And that's all there is to it!

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