Google Chrome

Google LLC

About this app

Google Chrome is a fast, easy-to-use and secure web browser. Designed for Android, Chrome brings you personalised news articles, quick links to your favourite sites, downloads, and Google Search and Google Translate built-in. Download now to enjoy the same Chrome web browser experience that you love across all your devices.

Browse fast and type less. Choose from personalised search results that instantly appear as you type, and quickly browse previously visited web pages. Fill in forms quickly with Autofill.

Incognito browsing. Use Incognito mode to browse the Internet without saving your history. Browse privately across all your devices.

Access your Chrome across devices. When you sign in to Chrome, you can save bookmarks, passwords and more in your Google Account, so that you can access them on your other devices.

All your favourite content, one tap away. Chrome is not just fast for Google Search, but designed so that you are one tap away from all your favourite content. You can tap on your favourite news sites or social media directly from the new tab page. Chrome also has the 'Tap to Search' feature on most web pages. You can tap on any word or phrase to start a Google search while staying on the the page you are enjoying.

Protect your phone with Google Safe Browsing. Chrome has Google Safe Browsing built-in. It keeps your phone safe by showing you warnings when you attempt to navigate to dangerous sites or download dangerous files.

Fast downloads and view web pages and videos offline. Chrome has a dedicated download button, so that you can easily download videos, pictures, and entire web pages with just one tap. Chrome also has a downloads home right inside Chrome, where you can access all the content that you have downloaded, even when you are offline.

Google Voice Search. Chrome gives you an actual web browser that you can talk to. Use your voice to find answers on the go without typing, and go hands-free. You can browse and navigate more quickly using your voice anywhere, at any time.

Google Translate built-in: quickly translate entire web pages. Chrome has Google Translate built-in to help you translate entire web pages to your own language with one tap.

Smart personalised recommendations. Chrome creates an experience that is tailored to your interests. On the new tab page, you will find articles that Chrome has selected based on your previous browsing history.

Ratings and reviews

Great app, really. But the introduction of one new "feature" is infuriating. Chrome forces a pop-up notification at the bottom of your current browser after closing another tab to give you an opportunity to "undo" said closing. It takes up part of the browser, cannot be turned off, and lasts 10 seconds. Easily the worst app feature I've ever come across.

Some update made it so "inactive" tabs are shunted into a seperate page. I was not asked if I wanted to have this feature active. I don't want this feature active. I shut it off, and the shunted tabs were returned to the normal page with the rest. But now out of order, and I had to manually rearrange them back to how I had them. You may collect all my data, but obviously you don't know me. Don't decide how my tabs ought to be curated without asking first.

For the record? I actually like Chrome, sort of. But in our rapid progress to insure the so called "best and safest" product is shipped, we seemed to have forgotten the most important aspect of any software, and that is the customer. These excessive "updates" being churned out by companies like Model A cars in a Ford factory, seemed to gradually show a much lower effort for quality control and functionality. So we end up with questionable features, and a overall poorer experience.

What's new

Thanks for choosing Chrome! This release includes stability and performance improvements.