https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVjw7n_U37A
Google ’s Chrome internet browser has been jaw up market share on screen background and laptops for a while now , and now it ’s become mobile . If you ’ve got an Android 4.0 ( Ice Cream Sandwich ) phone or tablet you could download it now . If you don’t — and that should be most of you — time to get jealous .
Chrome for Android feature a host of improvement over the old Android web web browser , but the biggest high spot has got to be reflexive tab and bookmark syncing between your desktop and speech sound . So you ’ve got a few tab capable at home , and have to run out the door ? Not a trouble , you ’ve got those same tabs open on your phone with a warm tap . It ’s also just a much slick UI . It borrows a lot of the swiping gesture that are deeply integrate in Ice Cream Sandwich for easier and more visceral navigation . Tab - management expect awesome , and former indication seem like it ’s more than tight enough ( quick than the already fast Android 4.0 stock web internet browser ) .
We ’re play with it now , and will update shortly with hands - on impressions . [ Google Chrome Blog ]
UPDATE : Just spent some hands on sentence with Chrome Beta on a Galaxy Nexus . Here are my immediate notes :
It see really , really honest . Tab management is marvelous . Either swiping from one side of the sieve to the other to switch , or by using the card witness , it ’s fast and visceral . Websites ordinarily trite to recharge when I went back into the tab key , which slowed things down and was pretty pestiferous . Scrolling on page was very fast in general , as was zoom in and out .
Syncing it up with my screen background Chrome web internet browser was really easy , and within second I had access to all of the tab I opened ( though it seemed to only show the 1 I open going fore , but not the I that were open before I linked it all up ) .
It ’s also got a cool feature article where if multiple links are stacked very closely on top of each other ( i.e. gizmodo.com
jezebel.com
lifehacker.com )
A bill of fare will pop up to help ensure you select the right one . It ’s a piddling item , but it ’s prissy .
The biggest , saddest omission is that it is miss the “ Request desktop land site ” clitoris that you find in the stock Android 4.0 web browser app , which permit you to view a full site alternatively of the mobile edition . That ’s one of my favorite features from Android 4.0 ’s web internet browser , and it ’s a drag to find it pretermit here , but hopefully that will be come up presently .
Over all , it ’s fast and pretty and considering it ’s in Beta , it ’s in pretty good shape . Hopefully it will only improve from here .
UPDATE 2 : Here ’s a lil ’ hands - on video :
Music : Kevin MacLeod / Incompetech.com
UPDATE 3 : In case you were question if this would finally replace the stock Android browser app , we ’ve get an official program line from Google :
With today ’s launch , Chrome for Android Beta will be available as an app in Android Market . It currently will not replace your Android web browser and you ’ll be capable to have both on your Android gadget . the right way now our focus is on making Chrome for Android Beta available to Android 4.0 phone / tablet users to tuck initial feedback . Our long - terminus plan is for Chrome to become the standard web browser app on Android 4.0 and above .
It ’s what we assumed , but y’know , skillful to have it confirmified .
UPDATE 4 : ( deal … so … shopworn … from … updating … ) Adobe has confirmed that Flash will not be supported in Chrome for Android . We already knew that Adobe was planning onstopping sustenance for nomadic Flash , so this should n’t come as too much of a surprise , but it ’s it ’s still a tiny bummer . There are still a mickle of site out there that are Flash - ground , and while one could argue that they “ should n’t be ” it still sucks that they wo n’t be viewable any more until they change their ways . Ah well , such is the way of progress . [ Adobe BlogviaThe Verge ]
https://gizmodo.com/report-adobe-is-finally-pulling-the-plug-on-mobile-fla-5857784
AndroidGoogleIce Cream SandwichPhonesSmartphones
Daily Newsletter
Get the best tech , science , and culture news program in your inbox daily .
News from the future , rescue to your present tense .
You May Also Like
