Google Chrome to Get a Metro-Style Look for Windows 8 - richmondsheming

Windows 8 is shaping adequate to live a new field of battle for the browser wars, with Google confirming plans for a Underground-style version of Chrome.

An unnamed Google representative revealed the caller's plans to Mashable. The official said Chrome for Windows 8 volition cost supported off the existing desktop browser, as opposed to the Android version of Chrome. Google will improve touch backing on the desktop side, but will also build a Tube adaptation for the tablet-friendly position of Windows 8.

"Our end is to be able to offer our users a speedy, lanceolate, secure Chrome experience across all platforms, which includes both the desktop and Subway system versions of Windows 8," the Google allegorical aforementioned. Google hasn't declared any features for Windows 8 Chrome.

This week, Mozilla revealed plans to bring its Firefox browser to Windows 8. In a blog mail, Mozilla engineer Brian Bondy explained that browsers posterior have primary privileges in Windows 8. Technically, they're screen background apps, but they can also include a Metro-flair interpretation that runs inside Windows 8's touch-optimized port. To use the Underground-style app, users must put across the web browser atomic number 3 the default in Windows 8.

Although Microsoft and Google have become rivals in Holocene epoch years, Google prat't yield to brush off Windows 8. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 serves as the default browser, with Bing as its search engine, which means Google could lose a lot of its bread and butter explore business if Windows 8's Subway system user interface proves nonclassical. In Windows 8, Chrome's goal bequeath be the synoptic Eastern Samoa it's forever been: Keep users hooked connected Google Search.

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