Google fires up Chrome for Android, but there's a catch

by Paddy Smith  |  Thursday 9 February 2012
Google fires up Chrome for Android, but there's a catch

Google’s Chrome browser is now available to anyone lucky enough to have an Android 4.0 smartphone or tablet. But

That’s good news if you’re locked into the Google ecosystem, because you’ll be able to drop what you’re doing on your desktop and pick it up seamlessly on the move.

Chrome for Android – mentioned back in October and now in beta – shares your browser tabs across all your desktop and mobile devices, plus history, preferences and bookmarks. It’s also been redesigned to include mobile optimised tabbed browsing that’s as easy to navigate “as if you’re holding a deck of cards in the palm of your hands” and introduces Link Preview, a smart link identifier to help you peck out the right link in a list.

Bad news for Flash fans, though – Adobe's confirmed its runtime environment isn't heading to Chrome for Android. Not yet, at any rate.

Want to speed test it against your current mobile browser? You can find out more on the Official Google Blog and download Chrome for Android from the Android Market. 

This article originally appeared at Stuff.tv

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Comments: 2
Haratu
9 February 2012
 Opera has been doing all this for a while... and it runs java.


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Google fires up Chrome for Android, but there's a catch?
Google’s Chrome browser is now available to anyone lucky enough to have an Android 4.0 smartphone or tablet. But

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val_Ss
16 February 2012
 Chrome for Android takes up 48.36MB of disk space when installed, and that's before adding in any synced information. By comparison, Firefox for Android, which uses a different engine to drive it, uses around 15MB before adding in sync data. But the main problem is availability, it only runs on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, which means 99% of Androids can't run Google's own browser.
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