{"id":43147,"date":"2012-02-16T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43147"},"modified":"2012-02-16T00:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:05:19","slug":"googles-chrome-hits-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/43147-googles-chrome-hits-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Chrome hits Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/introducing-chrome-for-android.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google earlier this week announced<\/a> the release of a beta version of its <a title=\"Chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/368084-Chrome\">Chrome<\/a> browser for <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a>. This test version is in limited release but brings many of Chrome&#8217;s desktop features to Android handsets.<\/p>\n<p>The beta release is initially only available in 12 countries (including the UK, US, Germany and Brazil but not South Africa) and only for Android 4.0-powered handsets.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the features of the desktop version of Chrome have been ported over to the mobile version, including the ability to pre-load the most popular search results in the background so that links will load almost instantaneously. A possible downside to that could be that pages a user will never actually look at will be pre-loaded, boosting data usage.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally Chrome takes advantage of Google&#8217;s extensive range of services and users with a <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> account can synchronise their bookmarks and open tabs across desktop and mobile platforms. Synchronisation also means that sites regularly visited on the desktop version will be used to auto-complete web addresses on the Android version.<\/p>\n<p>Where the Android version differs from the desktop version is in a number of features designed to make browsing easier on mobile devices. Among these are gestures for switching between open tabs and a link preview feature which provides small previews of links on a page.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Chrome browser is a latecomer to the mobile world and faces some serious competition in this space. Most mobile devices already have a built-in browser of their own as well as offering a range of other browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the pack is <a title=\"Opera\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/272103-Opera-Software\">Opera<\/a> Mini which has a strong foothold in the South African and global market. <a title=\"Mozilla\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342687-Mozilla-Foundation\">Mozilla<\/a> also has a mobile version of its <a title=\"Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> browser available and the lesser known but increasingly popular Dolphin browser is proving popular with users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gestures, synchronisation aimed at making Chrome easier to use on mobile interfaces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":42939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397,1567,167],"class_list":["post-43147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-chrome","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43487,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43147\/revisions\/43487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}