This is not only because the backstage boss of Chrome is the Internet overlord Google, but also because Chrome itself is really refreshing. At that time, the two giants in the browser market were IE and Mozilla Firefox. After years of growth, IE has changed from a young man with a fresh interface to a big fat man with a scary tonnage, and Firefox has become more and more complicated, so bloated that even its behind-the-scenes boss can't see it-this behind-the-scenes boss is Google, which develops Chrome browsers. The popularity of Firefox is closely related to the promotion of Google, which has been a sponsor of Mozilla Foundation before. It is hoped that Firefox can beat IE in the browser market so that Google's flag can be inserted into every corner of the Internet. But after several years, Firefox has put a lot of pressure on IE, but its market share is still far from IE. Although Google subsidizes Mozilla, it can't directly control the development of Firefox, and the design concept of Firefox is far from what Google thinks. Thinking of expecting Firefox to beat IE, I don't know if I have to wait until the mountains are boundless and the sky is close. Google finally can't help it. Firefox really can't catch up with IE Google. It is a well-known cornucopia of engineers in the industry. It is used to developing products with engineers' thinking and advanced concepts. Although there are many works, there are also many products that lead the trend of the industry. Chrome undoubtedly belongs to the latter, and its emergence has injected vitality into the browser market. After the appearance of Chrome, major browsers, even Opera, which is famous for its innovation, have been affected to some extent. We found that the tabs of browsers began to go up, and the address bar and search box began to merge. Chrome brought a new era of browsers. The new Google+ interface with a large blank space is Google's latest thunder. Let's talk about what the design concept of Chrome is. In fact, the concept of Chrome is not difficult to understand-based on the Internet, making the browser lightweight and efficient, presenting the web content to users as quickly as possible, and making users pay attention to web browsing rather than the browser itself. Let's take a rough analysis of how the design concept of Chrome can be embodied. Let's take a look at the browsers before the birth of Chrome. Counting from the top of the screen, they are title bar, menu bar, toolbar, address bar and bookmark bar. Looking at the bottom, there are browser status bar, progress bar and Windows taskbar. One column is wider than the other. Maybe when the 4: 3 ratio of the screen is still mainstream, you won't feel anything about it. After all, sometimes the dense buttons can really make people feel a strange pleasure-I mean, there will be a high-end feeling like manipulating a spaceship, hmm. Many buttons: It's cool. Unfortunately, for various reasons, the 4: 3 screen is rarely seen on today's personal computers. At present, the screens at 16: 1 and 16: 9 have become the mainstream. This kind of screen has an embarrassing nickname in the mouth of fanatical fans with a ratio of 4: 3: "Hairtail Screen", which means that the wide screen is flat like hairtail. Of course, it's actually not so exaggerated, but the browser on the widescreen has several kinds of "columns", and there is really not much area left to display the content of the web page-maybe it can only be loaded into dachshunds. Dear friends, please bear the user experience that it takes three mouse wheels to see a picture of killing cats in the widescreen era. The real hairtail screen has come, can the stick screen be far behind? Fortunately, the appearance of Chrome has stopped this bad style. On Chrome, you don't have to look across the N-bar like Liu Xiang to see the content of the web page. Chrome has only two columns above it-the tab bar at the top and the address bar and toolbar below it. Plus the taskbar that comes with Windows, but only three columns. In this way, the area used to display the web page is greatly increased, and it is easier for users to focus on the content of the web page itself instead of the colorful buttons and fancy functions on the browser. Chrome's large display area is refreshing. In addition, the color matching of the Chrome interface is also very particular. Chrome's default color scheme has always been very elegant, from the initial light gray blue to the current neutral gray, which is very peaceful and unobtrusive-18% neutral gray is still the most moderate tone in nature. Plus Chrome's native buttons have no color, all of this is so inconspicuous. This is exactly the style that Chrome pursues-you'd better focus on the colorful web content, not the damn browser itself. For the average user, the browser should only be a window to peep at the outside world, which is enough. Chrome's main color is 18% neutral gray. In addition to the visual effect, it tends to browse web content, and the interactive design of Chrome also pays great attention to the seamless connection between browser and web page. In fact, most of the functions of Chrome can be realized through tabs. When you need to set up Chrome, the setup interface is just a tab; When you browse a web page, the content of the web page is also a tab page. In this way, Chrome is trying to blur the boundary between browser and web page, which makes users unconsciously dilute the concept of browser. The idea that the setting of Chrome is just a tab page has also affected the development of extension programs based on Chrome. In order to keep the overall style consistent and not interfere too much with users' reading of web pages, Chrome does not provide a large number of interfaces for extensions like Firefox. This makes the extension program on Chrome fit the browser itself perfectly. Many times, the extension program just works silently, and it will not bring a sense of disharmony. Chrome and its extensions, which take web browsing as their own responsibility and don't brush the sense of existence, have won a lot of good reputation, which is also an important reason why Chrome can grab a lot of market share from Firefox. It can be said that Chrome looks simple but hides the thoughtful consideration of Google designers. When users use Chrome, the whole web page comes to them, and this intuitive refreshing feeling has just become the most dazzling color on Chrome's unremarkable interface. Before, we had an article introducing Chrome's core-Chromium (click here to view related articles), which mentioned that Chromium used WebCore typesetting engine of Webkit and V8 JavaScript engine developed by Google itself. Webkit is a very efficient browser kernel. In that year, it had a fierce competition with Gecko, the kernel used by Firefox, for the support of Apple Safari project. In the end, Webkit won with the characteristics of portability and efficiency. The advantages of Webkit make it popular in many fields, but Google is not satisfied with the efficiency of Webkit. Google, which knows the essence of the Internet, has more stringent requirements for "efficiency". Chrome only inherits the WebCore typesetting engine part of Webkit core, while the JavaScript parsing engine uses the more efficient "V8" developed by itself. After the combination of WebCore and V8, Chromium, the fastest browser engine in the world, was born and mocked other browsers with incredibly high running scores. In this respect, Chrome is indeed the initiator of the running frenzy. Chrome: Run away from me? In the browser world, Chrome and Opera can be regarded as two extremes in web page rendering. Opera will give priority to parsing the text in the webpage before loading the webpage elements such as scripts and pictures, so as to ensure that users can read the contents of the webpage as quickly as possible-the disadvantage of this is that it affects the overall loading speed of the webpage and the running score is relatively ugly; Chrome, on the other hand, basically parses all the elements on the web page at the same speed-this can ensure that the whole web page can be rendered at the fastest speed, and whether the web page can be read in the first time is guaranteed by the super efficiency of Chromium (provided that you have a good enough network speed). Chrome and Opera render pages in a very different way. Of course, it is unrealistic to expect horses to run fast without eating vegetables. Chrome's efficiency is also based on the high demand for resources. Chrome will not only render the page when you click on the link, but also pre-read DNS or even pre-render the page before you do anything, and the old machine will be stuck. Fortunately, with the rapid development of computer hardware, quad-core has become popular, and large-capacity memory can be seen everywhere. In this context, the advantages of Chrome rendering efficiency are particularly obvious. In this respect, the design of Chrome is indeed forward-looking. Moore's Law makes Chrome glow obviously. Chrome's core Chromium is an excellent engine, which is lightweight and extremely efficient, and can present the content of web pages to users as quickly as possible, which well reflects the design concept of Chrome. One of the best ways to drive a person crazy is to keep him waiting for a long time. Chrome, on the other hand, should be the browser that makes people wait the least. When you click on Chrome, you feel no need to wait; When you typed in the URL and confirmed it, you felt no need to wait.