Google releases Chrome app for Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Bringing together its two most successful products - the Android operating system and the Chrome web browser -, Internet search giant Google Tuesday released a Chrome app for its Android `Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)' mobile OS.
Serving as an alternative to the Android's web browser - which has been rather drably dubbed as `Browser' -, the newly-released Chrome app for Android ICS will essentially bring a horde of features to the Android-based handsets and tablets, from the Chrome's desktop version.
Quite like the Android Browser app, the new Chrome app for Android ICS will allow Chrome users to use the "omnibox," where the URL of a website appears as a Google search box also. In addition, Chrome will also bring along the advantage of tabbed browsing; with a built-in private "Incognito" mode which gives users the ability to surf the Web without leaving behind any traces of the browsing activity.
There are also a host of other features which help the Chrome on Android app score an edge over the `Browser.' Some of the most notable among these features are the capability of syncing open tabs and bookmarks between the Chrome mobile app and Chrome browser on a PC; and the advantage of opening countless number of browser tabs.
About the new Chrome for Android app, Sundar Pichai - Google's Senior VP of Chrome and apps - said in a blog post that, quite similar to the Chrome's desktop version, the Chrome for Android is also "focused on speed and simplicity."
