Come on Over to GOOGLE CHROME!

I will admit that until recently I was an avid Internet Explorer user.  Our tech people at our school wanted us to use Mozilla Fire Fox but it just was not for me.  Against the wishes of our tech people, I continued to use my trusty Internet Explorer web browser.  I really never saw myself making the switch to a different web browser.  Why fix something that is not broken?  I was comfortable with Internet Explorer and I did not feel like breaking out of my shell to experience another web browser.

That was until I branched out to test the waters of Google Chrome.  It gives the user the ability to customize and control a lot more than is possible with Internet Explorer.  Below are my reasons for making the switch to Google Chrome.

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1.  I love the pinning tabs feature.  I always have my email and Power Teacher grade book open at school.  Pinning tabs allows me to reduce the size of these tabs and opens these tabs immediately when I launch Google Chrome.  By right-clicking on a tab and clicking pin, I can take advantage of this feature.  

2.  I love the apps on Google Chrome.  This has made it extremely easy for me to access my Google Classroom, Google Drive, Socrative Teacher, and Quizlet accounts.  Two mouse clicks and I am there.  I am able to access these apps by clicking on apps beneath the URL text box.  

3.  I love using my Google account on multiple devices with Chrome.  I am able to use my Google account on my phone, laptop, and IPad when using Chrome.  If I use my Google account all of my settings, bookmarks, and preferences are remembered from one device to another.

4.  I am thankful for the reopen closed tab feature.  I don't know how many times I have been researching information and accidentally closed out of a tab that I did not mean to close.  Talk about frustrating.  With Google Chrome's reopen closed tab feature, I can right-click on a current tab and select "reopen closed tab", this will open the last tab that I had closed.   

Below is a video introduction to Google Chrome.  The video includes Chrome's main selling points and a couple of recommended apps/extensions for Google Chrome.  

After reading this blog post, if you feel compelled to download Google Chrome, you may CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD GOOGLE CHROME.  

I hope you enjoyed my blog post this week.  I hope you stop in next week for my blog post on search tips and gmail tips.