How To Browse Privately In Google Chrome
Google’s game changing web browser Chrome combines sophisticated technology with a simple UI, to create a faster, safer and easier browsing experience. Launched in 2008, Google Chrome quickly dominated the web browser market to become the most used web browser globally within 4 years of its public release. Google’s rapid and continuous development cycle ensures the web browser continues to compete with the other most popular and advanced web browsers available.
Speed
Perhaps the area Google invested most of its development time to differentiate from other web browsers. Google Chrome launches extremely quickly from your desktop, runs applications at speed thanks to a powerful JavaScript engine and loads pages rapidly using the WebKit open source rendering engine. Add to this quicker search and navigation options from the simplified UI and you have a web browser that is pretty hard to beat on speed, especially if gaming is your thing.
Clean, simple UI
Google Chrome’s most striking feature and a substantial factor in its popularity - the simple UI hasn’t changed much since the beta launch in 2008. Google focused on trimming down unnecessary toolbar space to maximise browsing real estate. The web browser is made up of 3 rows of tools, the top layer horizontally stacks automatically adjusting tabs, next to a simple new tabs icon and the standard minimize, expand & close windows controls. The middle row includes 3 navigation controls (Back, Forward & Stop/Refresh), a URL box which also allows direct Google web searching and a star bookmarking icon. Extensions and web browser settings icons line up to the right of the URL box. The third row is made up of bookmark folders and installed apps. Easily overlooked now, this clean UI was a breath of fresh air compared to the overcrowded toolbars of popular web browsers pre-2008.
Privacy
Another hugely popular feature, Incognito mode allows you to browse privately by disabling history recording, reducing traceable breadcrumbs and removing tracking cookies on shutdown. Google Chrome’s settings also allow you to customize regular browsing privacy preferences.
Security
Google Chrome’s Sandboxing prevents malware automatically installing on your computer or affecting other web browser tabs. Google Chrome also has Safe Browsing technology built in with malware and phishing protection that warns you if you encounter a website suspected of containing malicious software/activity. Regular automatic updates ensure security features are up to date and effective.
Customization
A vast selection of apps, extensions, themes and settings make your browsing experience unique to you. Improve productivity, security, navigation speed, pretty much anything you can think of with apps and extensions from the Google Chrome Store. Install themes created by top artists or make your own using mychrometheme.com. Sign in with your Google Account to back up your contacts, preferences, history as well as access all your Google tools with a single login.
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Google Chrome is a web browser that aims to deliver a fast and simple Internet navigation mode while bundling several powerful features, such as bookmarks, synchronization, privacy mode, extensions, themes, and automatic web page translation.
Browse the web in style and customize everything
Simplicity is at the core of Chrome’s philosophy and the word that describes best the graphical interface. Chrome is the type of browser that doesn’t get in your way. It provides a seamless navigation mode and easy-to-trigger customization options. Another big plus is the clean look that it offers, as you may focus solely on your work without being distracted by unnecessary buttons or extra configuration settings.
You can work with multiple tabs, pin your favorite ones and have them opened automatically every time you launch Chrome, as well as make use of the drag-and-drop support for rearranging tabs in the preferred order.
Tab control, extensions, and more
The web browser integrates a single search box, the so-called 'Omnibox', where you can perform web search operations. The auto-completion feature proves to be particularly useful as it provides suggestions as you start typing, based ion your past searches.
Other power functions for enhancing your daily web browsing on the Internet include a build-in PDF viewer (resizing, saving and printing options are supported), custom keywords for your favorite websites, as well as the browser’s ability of remembering previously opened tabs.
Themes can be used for personalizing the way your web browser looks like while extensions give you the freedom to take screenshots, track discounts, read RSS feeds, and more.
Malware detection and incognito browsing
Chrome isn’t all about streamlined looks and easy-to search options, as it bundles a phishing detector that lets you know each time you land on websites suspected of containing malware or phishing. It implements the sandboxing technology for preventing malware from installing itself on your computer, as well as an automatic updating system for making sure you run the latest security features and fixes.
When it comes to keeping your private sessions anonymous, the developers from Google created the well-known 'Incognito' mode. This ensures that your websites visits and downloads are not saved in the browsing and download histories, and that all cookies are automatically deleted when you close the incognito tabs.
Other privacy options and data syncing
You can also clear your browsing data, be it browsing and download history, cookies and plug-in info, cached images and files, passwords, autofill form and hosted app data, or content licenses. Additionally, you may control your privacy preferences for cookies, images, JavaScript, and plugins. For example, cookies may be allowed to run for certain websites and blocked for all other sites.
By signing in with your Google account, the browser makes sure to save all your preferred applications, themes, extensions, autofill forms, passwords, bookmarks and other settings, so you can access them on all your devices connected by the same Google account.
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Chromes manages to mix up a clean and simple interface with an advanced set of configuration settings for delivering streamlined and secure browsing sessions. This makes it the ideal browser for every type of user out there.
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Since its release in 2008, Google Chrome has gradually come to dominate the web browser market, even on platforms with pre-installed competition. The reasons for that are complex, but one of them is that Google constantly iterates to make Chrome better. At the same time, Mozilla has changed the landscape with its Firefox Quantum overhaul. Let's see if Chrome is still the king of the hill.
Pros
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Media-heavy pages load and scroll smoothly: Compared to Mozilla Firefox, Chrome has always fared better when it comes to streaming HD video or just loading a lot of images at once. Microsoft's Edge browser has stolen some thunder here lately, but Edge isn't available for Windows 7 (and it's only available on Android and iOS in beta testing form), which puts a serious dent in its audience reach, and its add-on library is relatively tiny. Firefox Quantum has narrowed the gap, but Chrome remains better for video above 1080p and faster than 30 frames per second, unless your PC has recent internal components that can take the load off your central processor -- a system called hardware acceleration. If you have that, then Firefox and Chrome are pretty even in our real-world usage testing.
Google cloud services are tightly integrated: The browser itself has a Google account log-in dialog. When you log in, not only can you sync your bookmarks, browsing history and settings from other devices that you run this browser on, but you'll also get logged into Docs, Maps, Gmail, and other Google services. At the same time, you can opt not to sign in to Chrome and just log in to those services on their respective websites. You can sync with Firefox and Safari, but doing so doesn't connect you to anything that resembles Google's cornucopia of cloud services.
Cons
Privacy settings could be enhanced: While Google constantly works on Chrome's security, its privacy settings could use better organization. Take Firefox's permissions settings, for example. These are located right off the intuitively labeled 'Privacy & Security' section of the settings tab. You can isolate specific websites that are asking for webcam and microphone access, location data, and the ability to send you in-browser notifications. In each of these four categories, you can delete specific sites, delete all sites in one click, and toggle 'Block' or 'Allow' for each site. Firefox's system is straightforward.
In Chrome's settings, you must scroll down to the bottom, click on 'Advanced,' scroll down to the ambiguously labeled 'Content Settings,' click on that, then click on the permissions category that you want to adjust. While Firefox has a prominent Settings button next to each permission category to help guide the user, Chrome's breadcrumb is a tiny arrow.
When you enter Chrome's notifications permissions section, you'll see websites listed in sections labeled 'Block' and 'Allow.' To move a site from one section to the other, you have to click on the three little dots to the right to open a menu that contains a 'Block' option. In Firefox, you get a list of sites that you can sort alphabetically or by block/allow status, the ability to search for a site within this section, and a submenu labeled 'Block' or 'Allow' that you can clearly click on to toggle your preference. Firefox's dialog is also in a compact but expandable window, while Chrome's dialog is in a new browser tab with a lot of wasted space.
Elsewhere in Firefox's privacy settings, you can toggle whether or not you want the browser to use your history to generate search suggestions as you type. You can make Firefox dump your browser history every time you close it, independently from browsing in its version of incognito mode. You can put your browser notifications in a 'do not disturb' mode if you want to stream a movie, for example.
Overall, Firefox organizes your browser settings in a much friendlier and more granular way.
Search engine settings could be expanded: By default, the address bar uses Google Search when you type a few words and hit the Enter key. You can choose from a list of alternatives in your settings, but manually adding an additional engine is tedious. In the Search Engine section of your settings menu, you'll have to click on 'Manage Search Engines' and click on the word 'Add.' This word doesn't look like a button because it has no border or colored background, and its positioning is ambiguous enough that you can tell if it's related to the list of defaults above, or the 'Other Search Engines' section below.
When you click on Add, you get three entry fields to fill in. The most important one, where you tell Chrome the actual Internet address of the search engine, is labeled 'URL with %s in place of query.' Not intuitive phrasing for most people. In our testing, we had to enter the full URL of the search engine, then add '%s' (without the quotes) to the end.
And unlike Firefox, there is no function to restore the default list of search engines, so if you accidentally delete one, you'll have to go through this process to get it back. Plus, if your default is Google, for example, but you want to do a specific search on Wikipedia from the address bar, there is no quick way to do so. In Firefox, you can just start typing and click on the Wikipedia icon at the bottom of your search suggestions. If you want to remove a default search engine, you have to switch to another one for the removal option to show up.
Chrome's search engine management settings feel downright clunky compared to what Firefox offers.
Bottom Line
The more we dug into Chrome's settings, the more impressed we were with Mozilla Firefox. And if your computer has hardware acceleration for HD video, then Chrome's historical performance advantage with media handling is more or less eliminated. Chrome's remaining major feature advantage, at least on the desktop, is a single sign-on for its cloud services. If Mozilla's imminent overhaul to the mobile version of Firefox is as comprehensive as what they've done with the desktop version, then Google may find itself playing catch-up like it did nearly a decade ago.