Chrome is the
lightweight flagship browser that originated from an open source project by
Google called Chromium and Chromium OS. Now Chrome is celebrating its fiveyears of browsing with the internet community and with this five years
Chrome is one of the most widely used browser among a variety of other
products. Within these five years Google has made 29 versions to Chrome application.The
main strength of Chrome is considered as the wide variety of extensions and
add-ons, a powerful Javascript engine and a quick release development cycle
that makes it stand on the competitive end of the curve.
On celebrating the
wonderful 5th birthday Google launched a new feature to the Chrome users and it
is a "new breed of Chrome Apps" and is described as For Your Desktop.
Chrome is popular for
its online add ons especially the ones associated with Chrome Web store. Now Google
is trying to make a change on the ongoing trend of working online with web
based applications and tries to wipe out the border lines with the online apps
and the traditional desk top applications. The apps in “For Your Desktop”
section do not require an internet connection once it is downloaded to your
desktop. They can be used in offline mode.
