There’s also predicative search capability, and this too can be disabled if you’re at all concerned about privacy. You can choose to relegate this feature to Wifi only, or you can disable it outright if you choose to do so. It’s true, Google doesn’t have access to the same Nitro Javascript enhancements that Safari does, but they’ve sought to make up for the discrepancy with the ability to preload websites. Trust me, once you’ve actually used the Omnibox, searching via a dedicated search field just seems archaic and goofy. Sadly, though, no such thing exists for mobile Safari, even with the iOS 6 beta. In fact, Apple has adopted this very feature for its latest version of Safari for the Desktop (still in development). Have you noticed that Google Chrome lacks a dedicated window for searching? That’s because both search and direct address browsing are performed via the same window. Google Chrome also separates your desktop and mobile bookmarks, but you can easily access them both from either a desktop of mobile browser. Just make sure to sign in to Chrome with your Google account, and voila, all of your bookmarks at your fingertips. That means that you can save all of your bookmarks and access them on any device that’s running Google Chrome. One of the great things about Google Chrome is that everything can be synced to your Google account. This is handy if you accidentally close a page and can’t remember what the address of the page was. For your convenience, Google has included links to recently closed pages as well. In Chrome this is labeled as “Most visited”. Whenever you open a new tab, a window is presented to you with your most visited websites so that you can quickly access them again. Speed dial is a feature that’s almost become a standard on desktop browsers. On the iPhone, a drag and flick while in tab view will quickly dismiss a tab. On the iPad, you can swipe from outside of the screen and drag while holding to switch tabs (see our video for a demo). Swipe gesturesīoth the iPhone and iPad versions of Google Chrome feature their own respective style of swipe gestures. Easy access to desktop versions of websitesĭon’t you just hate it when a site forces you to use its mobile version instead of its desktop version? To remedy this issue Google has included a feature within Chrome that allows you to request the desktop version of a site with the simple tap of a button. This feature makes it easy to simply pick up where you left off no matter where you are. I was able to access tabs from my desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone with ease. Just like iCloud tabs for Safari in iOS 6, Google Chrome allows you to access open tabs from any device running Chrome. In other words, it’s a much more seamless experience than what you get with Safari. Still, history isn’t saved, Omnibox search suggestions are disabled, and passwords aren’t remembered, as you would expect.Įven more awesome is that fact that you can switch to Incognito mode within the browser, and Incognito tabs act as if they’re a part of their own separate browser. Incognito mode isn’t as, well, incognito as it is on a desktop browser due to the limitations imposed on it by iOS. This is, of course, infinitely more useful than the standalone Google app. Just like the Google app that’s been available on iOS seemingly forever, you can now perform voice searches directly in the browser using Google Chrome. Remember that the following list of 10 items is in no particular order. Watch the video above for a synopsis of each feature in action, and read below for more in-depth written detail. Who knows? Perhaps there will be a few items on the list that you weren’t even aware of… With this in mind, we’ve decided to cover 10 of our favorite things about Google Chrome for iOS. Although it’s not, and probably never will be as fast as Safari (unless Apple decides to even the playing field), it tries to make up for the speed difference with awesome features like cross-platform syncing, the Omnibox, and much more. As we reported yesterday, Google Chrome was released on iOS and it was met with much fanfare.
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