Chrome 16 launches with 'standalone' feature

Google has officially launched the latest version of its web browser, Chrome 16, with many new unique features that almost no other web browser has ever been equipped.

Chrome is considered the fastest growing and growing web browser in history, with the number of users constantly increasing over time. The reason for this result is that Google has invested heavily in its web browser, helping Chrome to continuously improve and improve performance and processing speed.

Most recently, Google has officially released the latest version of Chrome 16, with many new improvements really noticeable.

Download the latest version here.

Unique new features

One of the most valuable enhancements and features equipped in Chrome 16 is the ability to manage and use the browser as many different separate accounts, known as Chrome accounts.

Usually, for each browser, if you log in to a website (such as an email account or a forum .), to log in to the second account, first, you need to log out of the first account before Log in to the 2nd account.

However, with the new feature on Chrome 16, you can log in 2 or more different accounts at the same site without problems, by splitting the Chrome browser into multiple user accounts. different.

To use this feature, click on the Chrome option icon (in the upper right corner), select Options . From the Options tab, select the ' Personal Stuff ' tab and click the ' Add new User ' button in the Users section.

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Immediately, a new window of the Chrome browser appears. Now, in these two separate windows (old and new windows), you can access the same website and log in to two different accounts without any problems.

Besides, this feature also allows to change settings, browsing history, bookmark list . on Chrome browser according to each separate Chrome account.

For example, you want to use a Chrome account to save a list of specialized websites for work, and 1 Chrome account to save a list of websites specializing in entertainment . then just create 2 Different Chrome accounts, and save the web pages on each of these Chrome accounts later for easy management.

Besides, each Chrome account will be completely separate, for example when you install an extension on this Chrome account, it will not affect the remaining accounts.

This feature is also useful in cases where computers are shared by many people, from there, each person will have different Chrome accounts, making it easy to manage settings, bookmark lists, browsing history . their own without affecting the general users.

To switch between Chrome accounts, simply click on the icon in the upper left corner of Chrome, then select the corresponding account you want to use.

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By default, each Chrome account will have a username and a separate avatar. For ease of management, you should name each of these accounts, as well as choose the avatar image you want to use.

To do this, select Options (then go to the ' Add new User ' section as instructed above), select the account you are currently using, then click the Edit button.

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A dialog box appears, where you can name the account (for easy identification), and select the avatar image you want to use. Click OK to save the settings.

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Here, you can also select an account and then click ' Delete ' to delete that account from Chrome. However, if you delete an account, all information about that account (browsing history, bookmark list, settings .) will be deleted completely. Therefore, you need to take note before deciding to delete a certain account.

Note: in the case of computers used by many people, this feature will not protect your privacy (such as web browsing lists, bookmarks, passwords stored on the browser .), but only more convenient in management when browsing the web. In case of single use, this feature is still very useful for managing many different web accounts.

In fact, the management features in many different accounts have been applied on Firefox for a long time, however, the browser does not support users to create and switch between accounts, but need to use tips to interfere with the software itself, so not everyone can use it.

Video experiences Chrome 'exclusive' feature 16:

Speed ​​- Still great

Not only equipped with new features, Chrome 16 still keeps an impressive 'style' of processing speed, users will be really impressed right from the first use.

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Stable 100/100 absolute stability with AcidTest tool

Conducting grading speed and stability with specialized tools shows that Chrome 16 outperforms other competitors such as Firefox 8.0, IE 9 and even Chrome 15.

Chrome 16 patched 15 dangerous security bugs

Besides new features and improved processing speed, notably in this new version, Chrome 16 patched 15 dangerous security bugs discovered on previous versions, including 6 extremely error dangerous, 7 errors with medium level and 2 minor errors.

These security bugs relate to errors in the Chrome browser code, discovered by Google's security team and free programmers. Google has awarded more than $ 6,000 to programmers to detect serious bugs in their browsers.

Thus, not only equipped with new features, improved performance but also discovered and fixed security flaws, Google showed that Chrome has absolutely a reason to become the world's most popular web browser in future.