Google Chrome Gets Early Metro-Style App for Windows 8 - sosapriece

Windows 8 users may now taste out an early version of Metro-flair Google Chromium-plate by installing the browser's developer build.

To accession the Metro-style browser, users essential installChromethroughthedevchannel, then set Chrome as the default web browser. Erstwhile they do, the Chrome icon in the Windows 8 Start menu will convert to show that it's a Metro-style app.

The Underground-style version of Chrome is similar to its desktop counterpart, just it has larger tabs that are more conducive to touchscreens. Unlike Internet Explorer 10, Chrome shows all open tabs in the least times — IE hides them until the substance abuser far-right-clicks OR swipes upward on a touchscreen — so it's a smashing option for users who need to promptly switch between tabs. The browser also supports Incognito musical mode and all Adobe brick Flash satisfied, whereas Internet Explorer uses a whitelist of approved Wink content.

Chrome also supports some of Windows 8's Subway system features. Through the charms barroom, users can share links with other apps, but the universal search work in Windows 8 doesn't look to workplace. The browser supports face-by-side snapping of other apps, so you stern keep an middle on Chirrup OR e-get off as you surf the Web.

But as EdBottpointsout, Chrome violates Metro design principles with the browser's suited-click functionality. In Windows 8, right-clicking is suppositious to do the said thing as swiping upward on a touchscreen, merely that's non the case in Metro-style Chrome. Swiping ascending toggles full-screen browsing in Chrome, while right-clicking shows a pop-heavenward context menu, as it does in the desktop browser.

I assume't bear a tablet for testing Windows 8, but when using Splashtop's Win8 MetroTestbedapp on the iPad, scrolling didn't work in Chrome. If this is a problem with all tablets, I'm sure it will be fixed with future versions. Merely I too hope Google goes back and follows Metro design principles for right-clicks and upward swipes.

A couple of other nitpicks: There's currently no way to send a Web page from Metro-style Chromium-plate to the background, and the "Unused window" instruction opens a new tab instead. (Some sort of windowing function for Metro-style Chrome would be big for tab junkies.) Metro-stylus Chrome also has a "Pin to Start Screen" button that, at the instant, only crashes the browser.

If you're running a preview version of Windows 8 and want to chip in Chrome a try, keep in mind that only the default browser May run as a Metro-expressive style app, so Internet Explorer will only run on the desktop once you switch. To switch back to Subway system-style IE, you must unfastened the screen background version, go to "Cyberspace Options," click the "Programs" tab and click the link to "Make Explorer the default option browser."