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Google Chrome: Usability Impressions

September 2, 2008 under usability

I spent the long weekend at my uncle’s cottage in Quebec, meaning the last three days have been filled with sun, beer, and poutine. It was already destined to be a low-productivity day, but the final nail in the coffin was the announcement of Google Chrome.

There’s already been lots of talk (and speculation) about the performance aspects of Chrome, and about Google’s strategic motives in releasing it. But of course, I’m more interested in the user experience. I’ve been running Chrome for over three hours now, and here are my first impressions of it from a user experience and usability angle. The Google Chrome web site lists the key features here; I’ll address those on a point-by-point basis.

One box for everything

There’s evidence that many people don’t know the difference between the search box and the URL bar (see here). Chrome avoids this problem by getting rid of the separate search bar altogether: URLs and keyword searches are typed into the same text box. They call this box the omnibox, and it works a lot like Firefox 3’s awesomebar.

This is a small feature, but a nice one. I’ve never understood why it was necessary to have a separate search bar and URL bar in Firefox, especially since you can type keywords into the URL bar and it will do a search for those terms. And now that I’m used to the awesomebar, I find myself typing search keywords into the URL bar all the time.

New Tab page

In Firefox and Safari, when you open a new tab, you’re greeted with a blank page. As Aza Raskin recently observed: “while clean, it has a 100% probability of not getting you where what you want to be.” In Chrome, when you open up a new tab, it’s filled with a bunch of handy navigation shortcuts. Again, a small but nice touch. It’s actually remarkably similar to some of the ideas that Aza has been throwing around for future versions of Firefox; check out his post here.

Application shortcuts

Another idea that’s been floating around in various forms for a while now: Chrome lets you create an “application shortcut” from any site that you visit. Basically, it’s a quick and easy way to create site-specific browsers for your favourite web applications. It puts a shortcut on your desktop to launch the site in a separate window, with none of the usual web browser controls. You can get similar functionality in Firefox by installing the Prism extension.

Personally, this is a feature I could take or leave. I’m not yet convinced that site-specific browsers are the way to go. I gave Prism a quick try with my GMail, and I found that I missed having the regular browser features at my fingertips.

Dynamic tabs

This is a feature I love: you can drag tabs out of their window to create a new window, and drag tabs between windows. I know Safari has supports this to some extent (don’t have my Mac handy to check) but I can guarantee it’s not as snappy as it is in Chrome.

Incognito mode

Unless you spend a lot of time…er, buying birthday gifts for your spouse, this is not a big deal. Basically the same as Safari’s “private browsing” feature.

Safe browsing and Instant bookmarks

Again, nothing too exciting here — Firefox 3 has very similar features, which probably greatly influenced Chrome.

Importing settings

Yawn. Next!

Simpler downloads

Another little bit of UI polish that I think Google got right. Last year, I wrote a post about how uploading and downloading are seams in the web experience. With Chome, Google has made a few small tweaks that make things better. Instead of a separate Downloads window (which constantly annoys me in other browsers), downloaded items appear in the tab they were downloaded from. Look in the bottom left corner of this screenshot:

Google Chrome download bar

What I really like here is that I can interact with the PDF icon just like I can on my desktop: I can double-click it to open it, or drag-and-drop it to copy it to a new location.

And another cool feature which they don’t advertise is that you can drag-and-drop files from Windows Explorer onto File Chooser controls — another feature I’ve been craving for a while.

Separate process for every tab == “runs today’s complex web applications much better”

This is Chrome’s raison d’être and key differentiating feature. In Chrome, every open tab runs in a separate process, with its own address space. From a usability perspective, this means several important things. First of all, the entire interface is incredibly snappy. In Firefox, there is a single thread that handles updating the UI and executing JavaScript on all open tabs. This means that one piggy site can slow down the entire browser. The Mozilla team did a great job on performance improvements in Firefox 3, but Firefox can still bog down with a lot of tabs open. In Chrome, the worst thing a bloated site can do is slow down its own tab.

Having a process per tab also means that a single buggy site can’t bring down your entire browser. Apparently plugins also run in a separate process, so no more worrying about crappy plugins crashing your browser (Acrobat, I’m looking at you).

In my opinion, the performance and stability gains are big usability wins.

Conclusion

Overall, I’m really impressed with the attention to the user experience in Google Chrome. Google doesn’t have a reputation for great UI design, with a few exceptions (GMail, Maps), but I think they’ve hit a winner with Chrome. There are no groundbreaking new features, but a bunch of small, solid improvements that make for an overall great user experience. The biggest thing most people will notice is that almost everything in Chrome is extremely snappy. This might not seem like a big deal, but it really makes the browser a pleasure to use.


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