What’s that you say? Google released a browser?

I didn’t really think I’d be posting anything about Chrome… there’s just so much out there already.  Having downloaded and installed it though there are some interesting things in there that I thought I’d comment on.

1. Proxy Settings – it would seem that Chrome uses/obeys the Windows Internet Properties, so if you’re configuring proxy settings etc via GPO Chrome will obey these settings.  From an enterprise perspective this is good – it was the first thing people asked here for example.  It’s nice to see Google following this route, though end users wanting to bypass said proxy servers might not like it..!It’s worth noting that I imported settings etc from IE during the installation, so Chrome might have picked up this behaviour from there.  I’ll have to test it later.
2. Integrated Authentication – Having just visited our SharePoint based intranet I noticed that Chrome isn’t passing through my Windows credentials to the site resulting in a logon prompt that I don’t get with IE.  Once you’ve logged in though, the credentials are cached for the remainder of the session.
3. Sharepoint – From an initial look, Chrome doesn’t seem to offer a great experience in SharePoint, I’m not sure it’s even providing the ‘Level 2 Browser‘ experience you get with Firefox et al.
4. Default Search Engine – This is something I’ve never configured on my computer, though I do always use Google.  It was nice to see that Chrome picked up what must have been the standing default and is defaulting to Live Search.  Not that I use that, but I like that they haven’t just defaulted Google.