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ALLIED BANKING CORP
010320013
AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND
010700015
ASIA UNITED BANK
011020011
BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS
010030015
BANGKOK BANK
010670019
BANK OF AMERICA
010120019
BANK OF CHINA
011140014
BANK OF TOKYO
010460012
BANCO DE ORO (& EQUITABLE PCI BANK)
010530667
BANK OF COMMERCE
010440016
BANK OF THE PHIL ISLANDS (BPI)
010040018
CHINA BANKING CORP
010100013
CHINA TRUST COMML BANK
010690015
CITIBANK N.A.
010070017
DEVT BANK OF THE PHILS (DBP)
010590018
DEUTSCHE BANK
010650013
EAST WEST BANK
010620014
EXPORT & INDUSTRY BANK
010860010
FUJI BANK
010640010
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK (HSBC)
010060014
INTL COMML BANK OF CHINA
010560019
INTL EXCHANGE BANK
010680012
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK
010720011
KOREA EXCHANGE BANK
010710018
INTL NEDERLAND BANK
010660016
LANDBANK OF THE PHILS
010350025
MAYBANK OF THE PHILS
010220016
METROPOLITAN BANK & TRUST CO
010269996
PHIL BANK OF COMMUNICATION
010110016
PHIL TRUST COMPANY
010090039
PHIL NATIONAL BANK (PNB)
010080010
PRUDENTIAL BANK
010150018
PHIL VETERANS BANK
010330016
RIZAL COMML BANKING CORP (RCBC)
010280014
SECURITY BANK & TRUST CO
010140015
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
010050011
UNITED COCONUT PLANTERS BANK
010299995
UNION BANK OF THE PHILS (UBP)
010419995
UNITED OVERSEAS BANK
010270189
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Philippine banks with Paypal bank codes: Allied Bank; Asia United Bank; BSP; Banco de Oro (BDO); Equitable PCIBank (same as BDO bank code); Bank of Commerce; Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI); China Bank; China Trust; Citibank; Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP); Deutsche Bank; East-West Bank; Export Bank; Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC); Landbank of the Philippines (Land Bank); Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. (Metrobank); Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCom); Philtrust; Philippine National Bank (PNB); Prudential Bank; Veterans Bank; Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC); Security Bank; Standard Chartered; United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB); UnionBank of the Philippines (Unionbank); United Overseas Bank.
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Bored, Trapped in Your Job?
5 Signs It's Time to Move On
by Jenna Lebel, Experience, Inc.
When you landed that new job, the world looked great. Now it's been a while, and one of your worst fears has come true -- you're unhappy in your job. When you're spending at least five days a week at work, it makes sense that you'd want to like what you're doing. But there are times when you're in a position or company that doesn't work for you.
If you're unhappy with your job -- and everybody around you probably already knows it -- it might be time for a career transition. Results from an Experience.com survey provide some insight into making the change. According to the survey, the top signal that it's time to transition to a new job is not the boss yelling at you. In fact, the number-one warning sign is:
* Your job has become boring. Most people are not in it just for the money. On the contrary, they're looking for something that gives them the chance to make a difference. If, in fact, you're finding a lack of intellectual stimulation and challenge, you have lots of company -- nearly 30 percent of respondents cited this as their biggest indicator it's time to leave a job.
* Another warning signal to workers that it may be time to make a transition is the lack of growth opportunities. If you're in a dead end job, with no place to move (unless a lot of people grow old and retire), you're in trouble. Twenty-two percent of respondents felt trapped in a position with little room for career progression.
* Others felt they were receiving inadequate pay or benefits. It may not all be about money, but some of it certainly is. Do you feel underpaid? Do you have lousy (or no) benefits? Seventeen percent of employees feel the economic pinch, and when that happens, may have to decide whether their job is really worth it.
* Work friends are very important. If your relationships with co-workers have gone bad, that's a definite sign that it's time to move on. Seventeen percent of those surveyed agreed -- if you're not getting along, you're going to feel like you're suffocating.
* Lack of investment in the company's goals/mission. This is more than just a self-esteem thing, but was mentioned by 13% of the respondents as a key factor indicating a career change. You need to be part of the big picture, or you're not in the picture at all.
Once you encounter the warning signs that it might be time to make a career transition, how long do you wait before you leave?
Most people (52%) said they would wait at least a year to see if it improved. Others were not as patient and hopeful. Thirty-two percent of respondents said they would quit as soon as they found another job, while 16% reported they would stay no longer than six months.
"When you clearly communicate you are under-challenged, wait a few months to see if your superior responds, and if not, it's time to take your knowledge and expertise to a company that will let you grow," one respondent said.
Sa mata ng isang boss, may isang dosenang klase lang ng empleyado...
CLOWNS – ang official kenkoy ng office. May mga one-liner na gumigising sa lahat kapag nagkakaantukan na. Sabi ng ilang boss, eto raw yung mga KSP sa office na dahil hindi naman matalino, o kadalasang matalino na tamad lang, eh dinadaan na lang sa patawa ang pagpapapansin. Pero aaminin ko, walang opisinang walang ganito, at kung meron man, magigigng malaking sakripisyo ang pagpasok sa work araw-araw.
GEEKS – mga taong walang pakialam sa mundo. Papel, boss, at computer lang ang iniintindi. Kahit na mainit na ang ulo ng boss at bad trip, ang mga geeks ang walang takot na lumalapit sa boss at nagtatanong kung mag-iiba ang result ng entry kung isa-substitute ang value ng debit sa credit.
HOLLOW MAN – may 2 uri ng H.M. virus, ang Type A at Type B. Ang type A ay ang empleyado na madalas na invisible sa office, bakante ang upuan, madalas absent. Ang type B naman ang pumapasok sa office bagamat present eh inivisible naman ang work, at hollow ang utak.
SPICE GIRLS – barkadahan ng mga magkaka-ibigang babae mahilig gumimik, sabay-sabay pero laging late na pumapasok. Madalas na may hawak na hairbrush at songhits [how jologs!-uso pa ba to?]. Pag pinagawan mo ng group works, sila ang madalas na magkaka-grupo.
DA GWAPINGS – ang male counterpart ng Spice Girls, isinilang para magpa-cute. Konti lang ang members nito, 2-3 lang para mas pansin ang bawat isa. Tulad ng Spice Girls, kadalasang puro Hair Gel lang ang laman ng utak ng mga Da Gwapings.
CELEBRITIES – Politicians, Athletes, Performers. Politician ang mga palaban na empleyado na mas nag-aalala pa sa kalagayan ng kompanya at mga kapwa empleyado kesa sa performance. Athletes ang ilang 'varsitarians' na kung gaano kabilis pumasok eh ganon kabagal mag-work. Performers naman ang mga empleyado na kaya lang yata pumapasok eh para makasayaw, kumanta, at makatula sa stage kapag organizational day. Sa pangkalahatan, ang mga celebs ay matindi ang PR, pero mababa ang IQ.
GUINNESS – mga record holders pagdating sa persistence. Pilit pinupunan ang mga kakulangan sa katalinuhan. Sila ang mga kadalasang nagtatagumpay sa buhay. Masinop sa work. Mabilis mag-work, kahit na laging mali. (Hahaha!)
LEATHER GOODS – mga empleyadong maling uri ng determinasyon meron. Laging determinado ang mga ito sa harapang pangungupit, bulgarang pandaraya, at palagiang pagpapalapad ng papel sa boss. Talo ang mga buwaya sa pakapalan.
WEIRDOS – mga problematic employee, misunderstood daw, kadalasang tinatawag na black sheep ng office. May kanya-kanya silang katangian, konti ang kaibigan, madalas mapaaway, mababa ang evaluation, at boss's enemy.
MGA ANAK NI RIZAL – ang mga Endangered Species kumbaga. Straight 'A' employees pero well rounded at hindi geeks. Boss's pet pero hindi sipsip. Busy sa work pero may oras pa rin sa extra-curricular activities, at gimiks...Hanep!
BOB ONGS – mga medyo matino na may sayad...
COMMONERS – mga generic na member ng class. Kulang sa individuality, at katangiang umuukit sa isipan. Hindi sila agad napapansin ng boss pag absent, at sa paglipas ng panahon, sila ang mga taong nakakalimutan ng mga boss at co-employees nila.
Ikaw, san ka kabilang?
GEEKS – mga taong walang pakialam sa mundo. Papel, boss, at computer lang ang iniintindi. Kahit na mainit na ang ulo ng boss at bad trip, ang mga geeks ang walang takot na lumalapit sa boss at nagtatanong kung mag-iiba ang result ng entry kung isa-substitute ang value ng debit sa credit.
HOLLOW MAN – may 2 uri ng H.M. virus, ang Type A at Type B. Ang type A ay ang empleyado na madalas na invisible sa office, bakante ang upuan, madalas absent. Ang type B naman ang pumapasok sa office bagamat present eh inivisible naman ang work, at hollow ang utak.
SPICE GIRLS – barkadahan ng mga magkaka-ibigang babae mahilig gumimik, sabay-sabay pero laging late na pumapasok. Madalas na may hawak na hairbrush at songhits [how jologs!-uso pa ba to?]. Pag pinagawan mo ng group works, sila ang madalas na magkaka-grupo.
DA GWAPINGS – ang male counterpart ng Spice Girls, isinilang para magpa-cute. Konti lang ang members nito, 2-3 lang para mas pansin ang bawat isa. Tulad ng Spice Girls, kadalasang puro Hair Gel lang ang laman ng utak ng mga Da Gwapings.
CELEBRITIES – Politicians, Athletes, Performers. Politician ang mga palaban na empleyado na mas nag-aalala pa sa kalagayan ng kompanya at mga kapwa empleyado kesa sa performance. Athletes ang ilang 'varsitarians' na kung gaano kabilis pumasok eh ganon kabagal mag-work. Performers naman ang mga empleyado na kaya lang yata pumapasok eh para makasayaw, kumanta, at makatula sa stage kapag organizational day. Sa pangkalahatan, ang mga celebs ay matindi ang PR, pero mababa ang IQ.
GUINNESS – mga record holders pagdating sa persistence. Pilit pinupunan ang mga kakulangan sa katalinuhan. Sila ang mga kadalasang nagtatagumpay sa buhay. Masinop sa work. Mabilis mag-work, kahit na laging mali. (Hahaha!)
LEATHER GOODS – mga empleyadong maling uri ng determinasyon meron. Laging determinado ang mga ito sa harapang pangungupit, bulgarang pandaraya, at palagiang pagpapalapad ng papel sa boss. Talo ang mga buwaya sa pakapalan.
WEIRDOS – mga problematic employee, misunderstood daw, kadalasang tinatawag na black sheep ng office. May kanya-kanya silang katangian, konti ang kaibigan, madalas mapaaway, mababa ang evaluation, at boss's enemy.
MGA ANAK NI RIZAL – ang mga Endangered Species kumbaga. Straight 'A' employees pero well rounded at hindi geeks. Boss's pet pero hindi sipsip. Busy sa work pero may oras pa rin sa extra-curricular activities, at gimiks...Hanep!
BOB ONGS – mga medyo matino na may sayad...
COMMONERS – mga generic na member ng class. Kulang sa individuality, at katangiang umuukit sa isipan. Hindi sila agad napapansin ng boss pag absent, at sa paglipas ng panahon, sila ang mga taong nakakalimutan ng mga boss at co-employees nila.
Ikaw, san ka kabilang?
This is for your entire life.
This is my entire life. What I have done and what I have experienced.
· Smoked a cigarette
· crashed a friend's car (almost)
fallen out of a car
stolen a car
been stuck in a field
· been fired
· been in a fist fight
· snuck out of your parent's house ......
· had feelings for someone who didn't have them back -
gone on a blind date
· skipped school
· seen someone die
been to Canada
been to Mexico
· been on a plane
purposely set a part of yourself on fire
· eaten sushi
been skiing
· met someone from the internet.
· been to a concert
· taken pain-killers
· love someone or miss someone right now
· laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
made a snow angel
· had a tea party
· flown a kite
· built a sand castle
gone puddle jumping
· played dress up
· jumped into a pile of leaves
gone sledding -
· cheated while playing a game
· been lonely
· fallen asleep at work/school
· used a fake ID
· watched the sun set
· felt an earthquake
· slept beneath the stars
· been tickled
· been robbed
· been misunderstood
petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo
· won a contest
· ran a red light/stop sign.
been suspended from school (in-school suspension for only 1 day)
· had braces
· felt like an outcast/third person
· had déjà vu
· danced in the moonlight
· liked the way you looked
witnessed a crime
· questioned your heart
· been obsessed with post-it notes
· squished mud through your bare feet
· been lost
· been on the opposite side of the country
· swam in the ocean
· felt like dying
· cried yourself to sleep
· played cops and robbers
· recently colored with crayons
· sang karaoke
· paid for a meal with only coins
· done something you told yourself you wouldn't
· made prank phone calls
· laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
caught a snowflake on your tongue
· played/danced in the rain
· written a letter to Santa Claus
· watched the sun rise with someone you care about
· blown bubbles
· made a bonfire on the beach
· crashed a party
· gone roller-skating
· had a wish come true
jumped off a bridge
· won at Bingo
been on a cruise
· Smoked a cigarette
· crashed a friend's car (almost)
fallen out of a car
stolen a car
been stuck in a field
· been fired
· been in a fist fight
· snuck out of your parent's house ......
· had feelings for someone who didn't have them back -
gone on a blind date
· skipped school
· seen someone die
been to Canada
been to Mexico
· been on a plane
purposely set a part of yourself on fire
· eaten sushi
been skiing
· met someone from the internet.
· been to a concert
· taken pain-killers
· love someone or miss someone right now
· laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
made a snow angel
· had a tea party
· flown a kite
· built a sand castle
gone puddle jumping
· played dress up
· jumped into a pile of leaves
gone sledding -
· cheated while playing a game
· been lonely
· fallen asleep at work/school
· used a fake ID
· watched the sun set
· felt an earthquake
· slept beneath the stars
· been tickled
· been robbed
· been misunderstood
petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo
· won a contest
· ran a red light/stop sign.
been suspended from school (in-school suspension for only 1 day)
· had braces
· felt like an outcast/third person
· had déjà vu
· danced in the moonlight
· liked the way you looked
witnessed a crime
· questioned your heart
· been obsessed with post-it notes
· squished mud through your bare feet
· been lost
· been on the opposite side of the country
· swam in the ocean
· felt like dying
· cried yourself to sleep
· played cops and robbers
· recently colored with crayons
· sang karaoke
· paid for a meal with only coins
· done something you told yourself you wouldn't
· made prank phone calls
· laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
caught a snowflake on your tongue
· played/danced in the rain
· written a letter to Santa Claus
· watched the sun rise with someone you care about
· blown bubbles
· made a bonfire on the beach
· crashed a party
· gone roller-skating
· had a wish come true
jumped off a bridge
· won at Bingo
been on a cruise
First Test of Chrome, Google's New Browser
From All Things Digital, Sept. 2, 2008:
Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome, aimed at wresting dominance of the browser market from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The move takes the Google-Microsoft rivalry to a whole new level. If Google succeeds, it will be a big deal, with major ramifications for the future of the Web.
But just how good is Chrome? How does it differ from IE and from less popular, but still important, browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari?
Google’s Chrome browser displays thumbnails of a user’s most-visited pages when a new tab is opened, rather than a blank page.
I’ve been testing Chrome for about a week, trying out all its features, and using it side by side with Microsoft’s latest iteration of IE, which came out just last week.
My verdict: Chrome is a smart, innovative browser that, in many common scenarios, will make using the Web faster, easier and less frustrating. But this first version—which is just a beta, or test, release—is rough around the edges and lacks some common browser features Google plans to add later. These omissions include a way to manage bookmarks, a command for emailing links and pages directly from the browser, and even a progress bar to show how much of a Web page has loaded.
Chrome’s interface has some bold changes from the standard browser design. These new features enhance the Web experience, but they will require some adjustment on the part of users. For instance, Chrome does away with most menus and toolbar icons to give maximum screen space for the Web pages themselves. Also, Google has merged the address bar, where you type in Web addresses, with the search box, where you type in search terms. This unified feature is called the Omnibox.
One striking difference in Chrome is how it handles tabs, which display a single Web page. In Chrome, each tab behaves as a separate browser. The bookmarks bar, Omnibox, menus and toolbar icons are located inside the tab, rather than atop the entire browser. The tabs appear at the top of the computer screen. Chrome also groups related tabs. If you open a new tab from a link in a page that’s already open, that new tab appears next to the originating page, rather than at the end of the row of tabs.
Despite Google’s claims that Chrome is fast, it was notably slower in my tests at the common task of launching Web pages than either Firefox or Safari. However, it proved faster than the latest version of IE—also a beta version—called IE8.
Meanwhile, Microsoft hasn’t been sitting still. The second beta version of IE8 is the best edition of Internet Explorer in years. It is packed with new features of its own, some of which are similar to those in Chrome, and some of which, in my view, top Chrome’s features.
For example, while IE8 also groups related tabs, it assigns a different color to each such tab group and allows you to close them all with one click. It has a “smart” address box of its own, that drops down a list of suggestions as you type, though it retains a separate search box.
IE8 also has breakthrough privacy features that exceed Chrome’s, and includes a new technology called Accelerators, which allows you to take rapid action on any selected word or phrase on a Web page, such as generating a map for a place name, without switching to a new page.
As they develop, each of these browsers has a good chance of besting Firefox 3.0, which I have regarded as the best Web browser for Windows, the only operating system on which Chrome currently runs. But they will have to get faster at loading pages. And, to best Firefox on the Macintosh, Google will have to make good on its promise to produce a Mac version of Chrome, something it says it will do in the coming months. Microsoft has no plans to produce a Mac version of IE8.
Microsoft’s IE8 has an \”Accelerator\” feature that lets users select any Web text and then map, translate, search or email their selection without leaving the page.
Chrome and IE8 are far more advanced than Apple’s Safari. Safari is speedy on both Mac and Windows platforms, but lacks many of the key intelligent features of its newer Google and Microsoft rivals.
Why is Google igniting a new browser war? There are two main reasons, and both involve competing with Microsoft. First, the search giant fears that because its search engine and other major products depend on the browser, Microsoft—with its rival online products—might be able to gain an advantage by altering the design of IE, which has roughly a 75% market share.
Second, and more important, Google sees the Web as a platform for the software programs, or applications, that currently run directly on computer operating systems, notably Microsoft’s Windows. It says current browsers lack the underlying architecture to enable future, more powerful Web applications that will rely more heavily on a common Web programming language called JavaScript. Chrome was designed to be the world’s speediest browser at handling JavaScript.
That move might one day make Chrome a sort of online operating system that competes with Windows. “Think of Chrome as more than a simple Web browser,” Google declares. “It’s a platform for running Web applications.”
I tested Chrome, and IE8, on a plain-vanilla Lenovo ThinkPad laptop running Windows XP, and equipped with a modest processor and one gigabyte of memory.
To gauge Chrome’s speed at loading Web pages, I launched two large groups of typical Web pages simultaneously, each site opening in its own tab. One group included 15 sports sites, the second 19 news sites. In both tests, Chrome’s speed fell in the middle, at 35 and 44 seconds, respectively. IE8 was slower, taking 49 and 75 seconds to open the two groups of sites. But Firefox and Safari were much faster, notching identical speeds of 19 seconds for the 15 sites and 28 seconds for the 19 sites.
Google claims that future, more sophisticated Web applications relying more heavily on JavaScript than today’s sites do would run faster on Chrome. Of course, I couldn’t test any claim about future scenarios, but I did run Chrome on several JavaScript test sites, used by developers. It handily beat the other browsers. However, Google doesn’t claim users would see much difference on current Web application sites.
I also tested Chrome’s compatibility with scores of common Web sites. In general, it did well, rendering the sites properly. But I ran into problems with video. Some video sites refused to recognize Chrome, because its development has been a secret. On others, like Major League Baseball’s site, videos mostly played properly, but sometimes didn’t.
IE8 also has some compatibility issues, for different reasons. It’s the first version of Internet Explorer to hew closely to Web standards. Earlier versions used some nonstandard ways of rendering Web sites, prompting some site designers to adopt techniques that made their pages work in IE, but look odd in Firefox and Safari. Now, ironically, these pages also look strange in IE8. So Microsoft was forced to build in a special Compatibility View button that users must click to see the sites properly.
Chrome is built on three core design principles. The first is its spare user interface. There are only two menus and a handful of toolbar icons. Internet Explorer introduced a similar approach in its version 7, but with a difference. Microsoft allows users to restore a traditional menu bar; Google omits that option. And the only toolbar icon you can add in Chrome is a Home button.
The second big principle behind Chrome is that a user can type anything he or she wishes into a single place, the Omnibox, and instantly receive suggestions on where to go, gleaned from the user’s own browsing history and Google’s rankings of popular sites. Whether you type in a Web address or a search term, the Omnibox is very smart. In some cases, in my tests, it came up with the right destination after I had typed only one or two letters of the name of a site I frequently visited.
The Omnibox has another cool feature, called Tab-to-Search. If you type in the name of another site that includes its own search feature, like Amazon.com, the Omnibox allows you to simply press the tab key to search within just that site, without opening it first. Chrome, through its Options settings, also lets you change the default search engine used by the Omnibox. Instead of Google’s own search service, you can use Microsoft’s Live search, Yahoo search, or others.
The third big principle behind Chrome is that each tab runs, under the hood, as a separate browser. Tabs can be dragged off the main browser and turned into separate windows. If one tab crashes, the rest of the browser keeps running. But this doesn’t work perfectly. In my tests, all of Chrome died on me when I tried watching an Olympics video on the NBC site.
You can even turn any tab into a standalone application that can be run from the Start Menu, or the desktop, as if it was a separate program.
Chrome has a few other key features. When you open a new tab, you don’t get a blank page, but a set of thumbnails for your most-visited pages, plus lists of recent search engines you’ve used, recently used bookmarks and recently closed tabs.
Like other browsers, Chrome puts up a warning when you try to visit a malicious or phony Web site, and it has a private browsing mode, called Incognito, which allows you to browse without leaving any history on your computer—a feature popularized in Safari.
Chrome also has a pop-up blocker, but it’s annoying, because it flashes a notice that a pop-up has been blocked. IE also does this, but unlike in Chrome, it allows the warnings to be made much less intrusive.
Internet Explorer 8 has some new features Chrome lacks. Its private browsing mode, called InPrivate, is the first I’ve seen that not only leaves no traces on your own computer, but also bars Web sites from collecting some types of information on where you’ve previously been surfing.
While IE8’s address box and search box remain separate, each also offers rapid suggestions; and both are organized better than Chrome’s. For instance, the suggestions that drop down from its address bar are divided neatly into categories drawn from the browser’s own guess, your history and your favorites. One downside: For this to work in Windows XP, you must first install Microsoft’s desktop search product.
Like Chrome, IE8 lets you switch your default search provider, but it also allows you to switch search engines on the fly. When you type in a search term, icons for alternate search engines appear at the bottom of the suggestion list, and you need only click on these to see search results from, say, Google, instead of Microsoft’s own Live search engine.
IE8’s Accelerators feature presents a blue-arrow icon above any text on a Web page that you have selected. Clicking on the icon brings up a list of actions you can take using the selected text, such as posting it to a blog, emailing it, mapping it or searching it. While these actions are set by default to use Microsoft’s own Web services, you can change them to use Google’s, Yahoo’s, or those from other companies.
Microsoft has also built in a feature called Web Slices. These are portions of a Web site that a site developer can designate to appear in the IE8 Favorites bar and to constantly update themselves. An example might be the bidding for an item on eBay.
Like Chrome, IE8 also displays useful information whenever you create a new tab, including a list of recently closed tabs and a list of Accelerators.
With the emergence of Chrome, consumers have a new and innovative browser choice, and with IE8, the new browser war is sure to be a worthy contest.
Email Walt Mossberg at mossberg@wsj.com.
But just how good is Chrome? How does it differ from IE and from less popular, but still important, browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari?
Google’s Chrome browser displays thumbnails of a user’s most-visited pages when a new tab is opened, rather than a blank page.
I’ve been testing Chrome for about a week, trying out all its features, and using it side by side with Microsoft’s latest iteration of IE, which came out just last week.
My verdict: Chrome is a smart, innovative browser that, in many common scenarios, will make using the Web faster, easier and less frustrating. But this first version—which is just a beta, or test, release—is rough around the edges and lacks some common browser features Google plans to add later. These omissions include a way to manage bookmarks, a command for emailing links and pages directly from the browser, and even a progress bar to show how much of a Web page has loaded.
Chrome’s interface has some bold changes from the standard browser design. These new features enhance the Web experience, but they will require some adjustment on the part of users. For instance, Chrome does away with most menus and toolbar icons to give maximum screen space for the Web pages themselves. Also, Google has merged the address bar, where you type in Web addresses, with the search box, where you type in search terms. This unified feature is called the Omnibox.
One striking difference in Chrome is how it handles tabs, which display a single Web page. In Chrome, each tab behaves as a separate browser. The bookmarks bar, Omnibox, menus and toolbar icons are located inside the tab, rather than atop the entire browser. The tabs appear at the top of the computer screen. Chrome also groups related tabs. If you open a new tab from a link in a page that’s already open, that new tab appears next to the originating page, rather than at the end of the row of tabs.
Despite Google’s claims that Chrome is fast, it was notably slower in my tests at the common task of launching Web pages than either Firefox or Safari. However, it proved faster than the latest version of IE—also a beta version—called IE8.
Meanwhile, Microsoft hasn’t been sitting still. The second beta version of IE8 is the best edition of Internet Explorer in years. It is packed with new features of its own, some of which are similar to those in Chrome, and some of which, in my view, top Chrome’s features.
For example, while IE8 also groups related tabs, it assigns a different color to each such tab group and allows you to close them all with one click. It has a “smart” address box of its own, that drops down a list of suggestions as you type, though it retains a separate search box.
IE8 also has breakthrough privacy features that exceed Chrome’s, and includes a new technology called Accelerators, which allows you to take rapid action on any selected word or phrase on a Web page, such as generating a map for a place name, without switching to a new page.
As they develop, each of these browsers has a good chance of besting Firefox 3.0, which I have regarded as the best Web browser for Windows, the only operating system on which Chrome currently runs. But they will have to get faster at loading pages. And, to best Firefox on the Macintosh, Google will have to make good on its promise to produce a Mac version of Chrome, something it says it will do in the coming months. Microsoft has no plans to produce a Mac version of IE8.
Microsoft’s IE8 has an \”Accelerator\” feature that lets users select any Web text and then map, translate, search or email their selection without leaving the page.
Chrome and IE8 are far more advanced than Apple’s Safari. Safari is speedy on both Mac and Windows platforms, but lacks many of the key intelligent features of its newer Google and Microsoft rivals.
Why is Google igniting a new browser war? There are two main reasons, and both involve competing with Microsoft. First, the search giant fears that because its search engine and other major products depend on the browser, Microsoft—with its rival online products—might be able to gain an advantage by altering the design of IE, which has roughly a 75% market share.
Second, and more important, Google sees the Web as a platform for the software programs, or applications, that currently run directly on computer operating systems, notably Microsoft’s Windows. It says current browsers lack the underlying architecture to enable future, more powerful Web applications that will rely more heavily on a common Web programming language called JavaScript. Chrome was designed to be the world’s speediest browser at handling JavaScript.
That move might one day make Chrome a sort of online operating system that competes with Windows. “Think of Chrome as more than a simple Web browser,” Google declares. “It’s a platform for running Web applications.”
I tested Chrome, and IE8, on a plain-vanilla Lenovo ThinkPad laptop running Windows XP, and equipped with a modest processor and one gigabyte of memory.
To gauge Chrome’s speed at loading Web pages, I launched two large groups of typical Web pages simultaneously, each site opening in its own tab. One group included 15 sports sites, the second 19 news sites. In both tests, Chrome’s speed fell in the middle, at 35 and 44 seconds, respectively. IE8 was slower, taking 49 and 75 seconds to open the two groups of sites. But Firefox and Safari were much faster, notching identical speeds of 19 seconds for the 15 sites and 28 seconds for the 19 sites.
Google claims that future, more sophisticated Web applications relying more heavily on JavaScript than today’s sites do would run faster on Chrome. Of course, I couldn’t test any claim about future scenarios, but I did run Chrome on several JavaScript test sites, used by developers. It handily beat the other browsers. However, Google doesn’t claim users would see much difference on current Web application sites.
I also tested Chrome’s compatibility with scores of common Web sites. In general, it did well, rendering the sites properly. But I ran into problems with video. Some video sites refused to recognize Chrome, because its development has been a secret. On others, like Major League Baseball’s site, videos mostly played properly, but sometimes didn’t.
IE8 also has some compatibility issues, for different reasons. It’s the first version of Internet Explorer to hew closely to Web standards. Earlier versions used some nonstandard ways of rendering Web sites, prompting some site designers to adopt techniques that made their pages work in IE, but look odd in Firefox and Safari. Now, ironically, these pages also look strange in IE8. So Microsoft was forced to build in a special Compatibility View button that users must click to see the sites properly.
Chrome is built on three core design principles. The first is its spare user interface. There are only two menus and a handful of toolbar icons. Internet Explorer introduced a similar approach in its version 7, but with a difference. Microsoft allows users to restore a traditional menu bar; Google omits that option. And the only toolbar icon you can add in Chrome is a Home button.
The second big principle behind Chrome is that a user can type anything he or she wishes into a single place, the Omnibox, and instantly receive suggestions on where to go, gleaned from the user’s own browsing history and Google’s rankings of popular sites. Whether you type in a Web address or a search term, the Omnibox is very smart. In some cases, in my tests, it came up with the right destination after I had typed only one or two letters of the name of a site I frequently visited.
The Omnibox has another cool feature, called Tab-to-Search. If you type in the name of another site that includes its own search feature, like Amazon.com, the Omnibox allows you to simply press the tab key to search within just that site, without opening it first. Chrome, through its Options settings, also lets you change the default search engine used by the Omnibox. Instead of Google’s own search service, you can use Microsoft’s Live search, Yahoo search, or others.
The third big principle behind Chrome is that each tab runs, under the hood, as a separate browser. Tabs can be dragged off the main browser and turned into separate windows. If one tab crashes, the rest of the browser keeps running. But this doesn’t work perfectly. In my tests, all of Chrome died on me when I tried watching an Olympics video on the NBC site.
You can even turn any tab into a standalone application that can be run from the Start Menu, or the desktop, as if it was a separate program.
Chrome has a few other key features. When you open a new tab, you don’t get a blank page, but a set of thumbnails for your most-visited pages, plus lists of recent search engines you’ve used, recently used bookmarks and recently closed tabs.
Like other browsers, Chrome puts up a warning when you try to visit a malicious or phony Web site, and it has a private browsing mode, called Incognito, which allows you to browse without leaving any history on your computer—a feature popularized in Safari.
Chrome also has a pop-up blocker, but it’s annoying, because it flashes a notice that a pop-up has been blocked. IE also does this, but unlike in Chrome, it allows the warnings to be made much less intrusive.
Internet Explorer 8 has some new features Chrome lacks. Its private browsing mode, called InPrivate, is the first I’ve seen that not only leaves no traces on your own computer, but also bars Web sites from collecting some types of information on where you’ve previously been surfing.
While IE8’s address box and search box remain separate, each also offers rapid suggestions; and both are organized better than Chrome’s. For instance, the suggestions that drop down from its address bar are divided neatly into categories drawn from the browser’s own guess, your history and your favorites. One downside: For this to work in Windows XP, you must first install Microsoft’s desktop search product.
Like Chrome, IE8 lets you switch your default search provider, but it also allows you to switch search engines on the fly. When you type in a search term, icons for alternate search engines appear at the bottom of the suggestion list, and you need only click on these to see search results from, say, Google, instead of Microsoft’s own Live search engine.
IE8’s Accelerators feature presents a blue-arrow icon above any text on a Web page that you have selected. Clicking on the icon brings up a list of actions you can take using the selected text, such as posting it to a blog, emailing it, mapping it or searching it. While these actions are set by default to use Microsoft’s own Web services, you can change them to use Google’s, Yahoo’s, or those from other companies.
Microsoft has also built in a feature called Web Slices. These are portions of a Web site that a site developer can designate to appear in the IE8 Favorites bar and to constantly update themselves. An example might be the bidding for an item on eBay.
Like Chrome, IE8 also displays useful information whenever you create a new tab, including a list of recently closed tabs and a list of Accelerators.
With the emergence of Chrome, consumers have a new and innovative browser choice, and with IE8, the new browser war is sure to be a worthy contest.
Email Walt Mossberg at mossberg@wsj.com.
10 Points for Healthy Living
- More Veggies, Less Meat
- More Vinegar, Less Salt
- More Fruits, Less Sweets
- More Water, Less Soda
- More Deeds, Less Talk
- Study More, Mistake Less
- Share More, Desire Less
- Walk More, Ride Less
- Laugh More, Anger Less
- Pray More, Worry Less
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I need that. An Inspiration that will keep me inspired in living my life to the fullest but stay healthy..
Nostalgia of Bacolod City
One of the finest cities in the Philippines is Bacolod City. It is in Negros Occidental, Visayas and it is the capital of the said province. I have been thier a lot of times and the city really captured my heart. I want to post few of my kept pictures which I tried to check everytime I feel stressed out and I need to relax.
Old Drawing Board
I'm back to the old drawing board. Waiting for 6am to send the last report for the day. I just starting a book. It's actually an old book which I just bought a copy for myself. It is "the little prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery. 
I read this when I was 14 years old but I happen to overlook the best thing about this book. The wonderful meaning of it that would just made you realize that life is not as complicated if you're going to look at it in a child's perspective. That you can enjoy life more if your going to think basic. It would be simplier if you are looking in a plain white paper than looking in a paper with a lot of lines. I used to ask advise from my mom's friend dad. And he will always answer me, go back to basic and you will see the reason where things began. You will soon realize how simple things are...
I need that! Life's have been complicated since I stepped in a ladder of adulthood. Sometimes, even how I see things in a simplier perspective, it's will always be as complicated as it is. It's not like before when I used to think of myself alone! I just want to get out of our house. Be with friends... drink till sunrise and just enjoy! I'm not a party maniac... I just want to sit down and talk. I enjoy talking to a sensible person... That's when i decided to be an adult. Choosing people who were sensible. Which unconciously is not good in my spirit of youth. Like The Little Prince author said, if you think like an adult you will not apprecaite things like his drawing of a boa digesting an elephant inside and out but if you are going to think as an innocent child, you might say, cool! How's that happen? and the endless conversation will start...
Sappy... I feel lonely thinking that I decided to be an adult earliest in my life...
Genesis...
The beginning...
I was just riding a jeepney this evening heading for work when I started thinking of making a new blog. Yes, a new blog which I will try to update of my thoughts and ramblings everyday. I have a lot of bogus blogs before. Multiply... blogger... blogspot... friendster blog and everything but my aim was just to earn from google. The hell, I haven't received any penny from that. Instead, it just made me loose my apetite of writing long twisted stories of my life. One more thing, I'm not even sure if this is allowed here in the office since I have various violations of computer code of conduct for almost four years of staying in this company. The heck, I'm bored and it's already 6:32 in the morning. My shift ends at seven and practically bored all through out of my shift. Who cares, I'm used of doing 3 tasks at a time or more. I'm not used of sitting down, watching excel files, outlook e-mail and hopeless kana of the product in my desktop... That's reason why I have little sheeps crawling at the top of taskbar waiting for the alien abduction.
By the way, this is my first "supposed to be" serious story in my "supposed to be" serious NEW blog. Hmmm... Expectations? Expect of stories which you can read from your friends diaries rather than stories from your so called "good" writers. I admit, I am not that perfect when it comes to my grammar and my vocabulary sucks!! I don't give a shit. I'm doing this for fun, to keep me wake and my future nostalgia. I'm not that good in criticizing politicians... But you will see some stories that would be criticizing a lot of government officials, politicians, etcetera... But that would be once in a blue moon. You will not be oriented about Philippine Entertainment here... I don't like it! Period. Even sports... Sorry hard bullies! But I don't like basketball. You will be reading twisted stories but not that good as Jessica Zafra. She's better. I'm just simply blogging. I'm not into fantastic writing...
Anyway, even if you are not intersted in whatever I am blabbering in my site... The important thing is that, I'm having fun and I don't see anything wrong about it. This is my blog and I have all the rights to say or write whatever I want to say!
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