It's been a while since the first Google Chrome OS computers hit the market. At that time, the system was at the beginning of its existence, so it was clear that it initially did not offer as many options to its users as it does now. However, time moves forward, and along with it, Google has brought new options to its users, thanks to which the Chrome OS system is quite a suitable choice for people who want an ultra-cheap computer that will serve them exclusively for working with the Internet and documents - on the Internet. Understandably, the system has also attracted a lot of curious people who, on the one hand, would like to try Chrome, but on the other hand, do not want to buy a new computer or laptop because of it.
And that's why Google came up with a compromise. System users Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 allows them to use Chrome on their computer in a special "Windows 8" version, which practically looks like a lightweight version of the Google Chrome OS system. It offers its own home screen, toolbar, shows the time and even allows you to open services in separate windows. At first, I didn't give this concept much of a chance, as I thought it was something that only served as an alternative interface. Well, after the first hour of playing with the program, I found out that it is more than just an interface. That it is a system within a system that a person can use without having to use VMWare or another virtualization tool.
Chrome is obviously building on similar foundations as Windows and that is also the reason why it is also easy to control. Although, personally, I rather think that Google is building on the foundations Windows 7 and older than just in the eighth grade. What confirms this for me is the presence of the "applications menu", which is located in the same place as the famous Start button. However, the application menu here works in two ways – firstly as a menu of all the 'programs' that the user has installed in the browser, secondly as a web search engine and secondly as a search engine for applications available in the Chrome Web Store. The ability to search for content on the web is gratifying, but on the other hand, it is much more likely that you will continue to reflexively search for things through the browser window. The same applies to the ability to search for applications from the Chrome Web Store, especially when you have the store icon directly in the taskbar, if you do not remove it from there.
At the same time, we get to another feature, which is rich personalization options, if we take into account that it is only a web browser. Although you don't add anything to the "desktop", you can add any number of icons to the taskbar and set their behavior. After clicking with the right mouse button on the icon, you can set the individual icons either to open as new tabs or as new windows, with the understanding that in this case the windows will start to look like separate applications and not like typical windows that you would open with the Ctrl shortcut + N. The third option for opening the application is to set the application to open as a fixed tab, which means that the given application will open automatically when the browser is opened and there is no way to turn it off. You can also set this for the pages you currently have open in the browser, which comes in very handy if the user is, for example, the editor of Samsung Magazine and has just written his article. In the end, the user thus prevents the possible unwanted closing of the window and does not run the risk of not saving the detailed article by mistake. There are quite a few uses for fixed cards and I don't think we need to list them all.
As I already mentioned, all mentioned options work for all cards. The only exception is a single application, and now I mean the word application seriously. Newer versions of Google Chrome bring with them a handy note-taking tool, Google Keep, which is user-friendly Androidu very well known. Here, Keep literally works as a separate application that opens in a separate window, and you can't set it to open as a new tab in any way. It is therefore a truly independent application, which is only modified so that it can also be opened in the alternative interface of Chrome for Windows 8. However, if you are using the standard desktop interface, then Keep will still open in a separate window. Does it matter though? Personally, I think not, as it is perfectly adapted for a small window. However, if you would still like to use Keep in full-screen, then there is nothing stopping you from doing so. You can enlarge the application using the traditional button.
Well, as usual, nothing is perfect and Chrome pre Windows 8 is no exception. During the time that I have been using the application, I have noticed one major problem, which is the support for multi-touch gestures. I don't know if this is an isolated problem caused by my laptop or if it is something that Google has not implemented in their browser. However, I know that the app doesn't support important gestures like two-finger scrolling on my computer. No matter what I do, it just doesn't work and I have to use either the mouse or the scroll bars on the right side of the browser to scroll. Well, as I noticed further, the application in this mode does not seem to work with gestures even if the user installs a plug-in from the Web Store. I consider the inability to change the background to be another disadvantage of the program. I know this might be something Google can remove in future versions of the app, but right now the background is a dark, not very optimistic color. This is a thing that bothers many users, so it is possible that Google is aware of it. Or he wants to leave this option only to Chromebook owners as a bonus that users can get with the purchase of a computer.
From another point of view, however, it is ultimately a program that can really surprise its users. That is, not a program, but an operating system simulator. That's exactly how Google Chrome pre could be defined Windows 8. It's not just something that lets you browse the web, but it's something that lets you try out what it would be like if one day you needed a cheap computer for working on documents and surfing the Internet, while also wanting , to host Chrome. Its advantage is that it has low requirements and therefore the hardware in computers is quite cheap. And it's quite similar with the Chrome browser, where you can set it to run in pre mode Windows 8. With this step, you will actually achieve that the browser will no longer be just a browser but a center for several applications, such as Google Drive, for Google Play Music, for writing notes via Google Keep or for other applications that were built on the basis of HTML 5 Thanks to the way Chrome handles programming languages, you have relatively comprehensive options for managing windows, as you have the option to open individual pages/programs in a separate window or set them to open when the browser is opened. In this case, the pages will be pinned to the beginning of the window and until they are released, they will still be in their place without the possibility to close the given tabs. You also have the option to organize the links in the bottom bar. However, when using it, expect that from time to time you will have to look at a depressingly dark background and you may not be able to scroll on touchpads with multi-touch support.
