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So you’ve just discovered a great new calendar, music player or other program, and you want to install it on your machine. Here’s how to do it on both Windows and Mac OS X.

On Windows

Installing a new program on Windows is pretty simple. Just head to the program’s website . Usually, this downloads an installer package, which you’ll use to install the program itself. Find out where you saved the installer, and double-click on it. This will start the install wizard.

Every install wizard is a little different, but generally it just involves hitting “next” a number of times. That said, here are some things you want to watch out for:

• Install Type: You’ll often be asked to perform a “typical” or a “custom” install (or some variation thereof). In pretty much every situation, a typical install should be just fine.
• Install Location: By default, the installer will probably want to put your program inC:\Program Files\[NAME OF PROGRAM]. Again, the default location is fine.
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• Bundled Software: This is one you really want to watch out for. Sometimes, an installer will ask you if you want to install an extra, unrelated piece of software, like the Ask Toolbar or Weatherbug, that you don’t want. Make sure, as you go through the install wizard, that you watch out for this type of stuff. Often, they’ll try to trick you into installing it by saying something like, “do you want to accept the terms of use and install the Ask Toolbar?” It’s OK to reject that terms of use, since it’s the terms of use for the Ask Toolbar — not for the software you’re installing. Keep an eye out, and uncheck any packaged crapware you come across.
• Shortcuts: Usually, at the end of an installation, it’ll ask you if you want to create a shortcut on the desktop and/or the Start Menu. I usually like to keep my desktop clean, so I uncheck this option, but make sure you always create a shortcut in the Start Menu so you can easily access that program whenever you want.

That’s it! It should take a minute or two for the program to install, but once it’s done, you should be able to find it in Start > All Programs. You can even pin it to the Windows 7 taskbar if you want quick access to it. You can now delete the original installer package from your Downloads folder; you don’t need that anymore.

On a Mac

Installing a program on a Mac is super easy, but it isn’t always self-explanatory. When you download a program from a website, it’ll usually download as a .dmg file. Find the .dmg file you just downloaded and double-click on it. It will “mount” that .dmg file as a white disk on your desktop, and open up a new window with the program inside. It might also have a shortcut to the Applications folder, in which case you can just drag the icon onto the Applications folder.

If the window that pops up doesn’t have a shortcut to the Applications folder, go to File > New Window to open a new Finder window, then click on Applications in the left-hand sidebar. Drag the program’s icon into your newly opened Applications window.

Once you’ve dragged the app into your Applications folder, you can close both windows. Right-click on the white disk icon on your desktop (which will have the same name as the program you just installed), and hit Eject. Then, delete the original .dmg file you downloaded. You won’t need this anymore, since the program is now on your hard drive. To access it, just open up the Finder, go to Applications, and the program should be in there. You can even add it to your dock if you want quick access to it.

 

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The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: When you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser.

Speed

Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way: It’s quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap and runs complex web applications fast. Learn more about Chrome and speed.

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Simplicity

Chrome’s browser window is streamlined, clean and simple.

Chrome also includes features that are designed for efficiency and ease of use. For example, you can search and navigate from the same box and arrange tabs however you wish – quickly and easily.

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Security

Chrome is designed to keep you safer and more secure on the web, with built-in malware and phishing protection, auto-updates to make sure that the browser is up to date with the latest security updates and more. Learn more about Chrome’s security features.

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And more features

Chrome has many useful features built in, including extensions, translation in the browser, themes and more. Learn more about Chrome’s newest and most loved features

What is a browser?

A web browser is the application that you use to view websites. Watch a 1-minute video to learn more.

Go to Whatbrowser.org/en-gb/

Read about the technology

Look under the hood and learn more about browsers and the web:

An illustrated guide, by Christoph Niemann & the Chrome team

The Chrome comic book, by Scott McCloud

Google Chrome in Action

Take a look at interactive web experiments for Google Chrome, created by JavaScript designers and programmers from around the world.

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Google Chrome 8 is not only stable to use, but comes with a full range of competitive features. It lacks some of the fine-tuning customisations in Firefox, but overall, users browsing with Chrome will find it a pleasant, fast and standards-compliant experience.

• Good: Fast and stable • Detachable tabs • Excels at account syncing • Auto-updating and translation well executed features
• Bad: Some controls hidden away under a Tools submenu • Interface customisation options limited • Extension features not as robust as some other browsers

Now into its second year, Google Chrome has begun to mature from a lightweight and fast-browsing alternative into an innovative browser on the precipice of a potential browsing revolution, with the pending ChromeOS. The browser that people can use today, Chrome 8, offers highly competitive features including synchronisation, autofill and it maintains Google’s reputation for building one of the fastest browsers available.

Chrome 8 represents a major milestone for the browser, but those who are familiar with seeing dramatic changes in major-point updates will be disappointed. New features include the sandboxing of Chrome’s PDF reader, which means that if the PDF you’re viewing crashes, it won’t take down the entire browser. Experimental options, such as side tabs, remoting, disabling outdated plug-ins and a “tab overview” mode for Macs, have been given a slight refresh by changing the name of about:labs to about:flags.

Please note that there are at least four versions of Chrome available at the moment, and this review only addresses the “stable” branch, intended for general use. Chrome beta, dev and Canary are progressively less stable versions of the browser which are aimed at developers.

Installation

Chrome’s installation process is simple and straightforward. If you download from Google’s website, it will ask you if you’d like to anonymously submit usage statistics to the company. This can be toggled even after the browser’s installed by going to the “Wrench” preferences menu, choosing Options, then Under the Hood and unchecking Help Make Chrome Better. Depending on your processor, the installation process should take less than two minutes.

Interface

Google’s Chrome interface hasn’t changed much since its surprise debut in September 2008. Tabs are still on top, the location bar — which Google likes to call the “Omnibar” — dominates the minimalist design and the browser has few visible control buttons besides Back, Forward and a combined Stop/Reload button. Although some may not like the tabs on top, we find it to be aesthetically preferable because it leaves more room below for the website we’re looking at.

One change has been to remove the secondary Page options button and combine it with the preferences Wrench to create space for extension icons to the right of the location bar. As it currently looks, it could be better organised. Some controls, such as page zoom, are readily available. Others, such as the extension manager, are hidden away under a Tools submenu.

Chrome’s extensions are fairly limited in how they can alter the browser’s interface. Unlike Firefox, which gives add-on makers a lot of leeway to change the browser’s look, Chrome mandates that extensions appear only as icons to the right of the location bar. The benefit maintains a uniform look in the browser, but it definitely limits how much the browser can be customised. Versions 6 and 7 of Chrome don’t support sidebars either, although other Chromium-based browsers (such as Flock 3) do offer the feature.

Even with its limitations, the interface design has remained a contemporary exemplar of how to minimise the browser’s screen footprint while remaining easy to use and versatile.

Features and support

Chrome 8′s features are accessible from the Preferences menu and the browser offers a complete range of modern browsing conveniences. The basics are well-represented, including tabbed browsing, new window creation and a private browsing mode that Google calls “Incognito,” which disables cookies tracking, history recording, extension support and other browsing breadcrumbs.

Chrome is based on WebKit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google’s Android mobile platform and several other desktop and mobile web-browsing tools. Chrome runs on a different JavaScript engine than its WebKit cousins, however, and there are also other changes.

Chrome’s tabs remain one of the best things about the browser. The tabs are detachable: “tabs” and “windows” are interchangeable here. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser and tabs can be rearranged at any time by clicking, holding, dragging and releasing. Not only can tabs be isolated, but each tab actually exists in its own task process. This means that when one site crashes, the other tabs do not. Though memory leaks are a major concern in Chrome when you have dozens of tabs open, sluggish behaviour and other impediments weren’t noticeable until after there were more than 30 tabs open. That’s not an immutable number, though, and a computer’s hardware will alter browser performance.

Some of the basics in Chrome are handled extremely intuitively. In-page searching works smoothly. Using the Ctrl-F hot key or the menu option, searching for a word or phrase will open a text-entry box on the top right of the browser. It searches as you type, indicating the number of positives results and highlighting them on the page.

Account syncing is another area where Chrome excels. Using your Gmail account, Chrome will sync your themes, preferences, autofill entries, extensions and bookmarks. You can toggle each of those categories, too. It does not yet offer password syncing, although the password manager offers a smart show password option that keeps it visually separate from the site that it’s associated to.

Chrome also contains a lot of privacy-tweaking settings. In the Options menu, go to the Under the Hood tab. From here, you can toggle and customise most of the browser’s privacy and security settings. Cookies, image management, JavaScript, plug-ins, pop-ups, location information and notifications can be adjusted from the Content Settings button. This includes toggling specific plug-ins, such as the built-in Adobe Flash plug-in or the Chrome PDF reader (which is deactivated by default.)

Like Firefox, Chrome gives broad control over search engines and setting search customisations. Though this doesn’t sound like much, not all browsers allow you to set keyword shortcuts for searching and some even restrict which search engine you can set as your default. Chrome comes with three defaults to choose from: Google, Bing and Yahoo.

The Chrome extension manager, bookmark manager and download manager all open in new tabs. They allow you to search their contents and throw in some basic management options like deletion, but ,in general, none feels as robust as their counterparts in competing browsers. For example, URLs in the bookmark manager are only revealed when you mouse over a bookmark and you must click on one to get the URL to permanently appear. That’s an extra click that other browsers don’t require.

Two other low-profile but well-executed features in Chrome include auto-updating and translation. Chrome automatically updates when a new version comes out. This makes it harder to revert back to an older version, but it’s highly unlikely that you’ll want to downgrade this build of Chrome since this is the stable build and not the beta or developer’s version. The second feature, automatic translation of web pages, is available to other browsers as a Google add-on, but because it comes from Google, it’s baked directly into Chrome.

Chrome is also a leader in HTML5 implementation, which is uneven because of the continuing development of HMTL5 standards. This will become more important in the coming months and years, but for right now it doesn’t massively affect interaction with Web sites.

In the realm of security, besides allowing you to disable JavaScript, Chrome will autoblock websites that are known as unsafe or for promulgating phishing attacks and malware threats. This depends on Google’s ability to flag websites as risky, though, and so it’s recommended to use a network like the Web of Trust extension or a separate security program to block threats.

Performance

Based on the open-source WebKit engine and Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, Google Chrome debuted to much fanfare because of its rocketing rendering speeds. Two years down the line, that hasn’t changed and the stable version of Chrome remains one of the fastest stable browsers available. The less stable versions, with their more recent improvements and bug fixes, are even faster.

Google claims that Chrome 6′s JavaScript rendering is 10 times faster than when Chrome was first released in 2008. Historically, Chrome has been one of the fastest browsers available across multiple benchmarks and that’s not expected to change in version 8. Some are making unverified claims that Chrome 8 is two to three times as fast as Chrome 7. CNET benchmarks will be added here soon.

Conclusion

Where Chrome 5 was the first version of the browser that felt fully baked, Chrome 6 began to add serious features to that foundation while improving usability. Chrome 7 and 8 have felt more like minor-point updates. Still, it’s a ready-to-go browser that offers top-of-the-line speed, a clean, minimalist look and competitive features that justify its still-increasing market share. Chrome is a serious option for anybody who wants a browser that gets out of the way of browsing the Web.

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Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.

Fast start-up
Google Chrome launches immediately.

Fast loading
Google Chrome loads websites quickly.

Fast search
Search the internet directly from the address bar.

If you’re already using Chrome, here are a few things you might like:

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  Chrome Themes

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  Watch an HTML5 Chrome Experimentcreated by writer/director Chris Milk with the band Arcade Fire, and Google.

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