You can move tabs to new windows with ease, you just need to drag and drop them. It’s one tab per site, allowing you to have one browser window with any number of tabs. The top window pane is as unobtrusive as they come. A reliance on icons lets Chrome provide a large window space enabling you to focus on the website while Chrome recedes in the background. It all starts with Chrome’s well-designed user interface that set the standard a decade ago.Ĭhrome’s bright white background with gray accents and text looks as inviting as ever. For most users, these are all livable compared to the benefits. The most impassioned case against Chrome is one against Google: Their tentacles touch and see everything. You can only have 10 shortcuts on the Google homepage. Others have been tested to be faster and less a resource hog.
It’s a little large on the download size compared to its peers. Does it have a couple drawbacks? Relatively, sure.
It’s easy to use and navigate, gets top marks for security, it syncs your preferences across devices, there are so many useful extensions, and the built-in Password Manager and generator is the best thing since sliced bread. Today, competitors emulate that no-frills approach as Chrome has solidified itself as the internet’s most popular browser. Google took the same formula and applied it to its Chrome browser when it launched in 2008. This iconoclastic approach revolutionized how we search the web. Even today on the Google homepage you’re treated simply to a logo, the search bar, and some favorites. Spotflux made all that as easy as any tool we've tried, and it doesn't slow your browsing enough to make you want to quit it.Minimalism made the Google search engine a blow-out success at the turn of the millennium. It even protects against infected Web sites. Securing your Internet connection helps protect your privacy and anonymity, and it blocks Web trackers and those all-too-personalized ads, too. Spotflux doesn't have a Help file in the usual sense, but the program is so easy to use, and a Support tab on the Settings dialog generates Support Bundles. The Settings are basic but useful, such as languages, startup behavior, and proxies. A system-tray icon let us check Spotflux's status at any time simply by hovering the cursor right-clicking produced a menu that let us disable Spotflux's secure connection, access the program's Settings, and Quit the program. It's almost impossible for an Internet connection routed through multiple secure VPN servers to be as fast as your normal broadband connection, and we noticed a bit of a lag in our browsing with Spotflux activated, though it's not really a concern since even our slowest sites loaded quickly enough - certainly fast enough that we didn't think about disabling Spotflux right away, as has so often been the case with secure VPN clients. Our browser opened with our secure connection (you can change that option in the program's Settings) but it took a few reloads before we could load any Web page in fact, we had to close Spotflux and reopen it to access Web pages with our default browser, Chrome. The first thing Spotflux did when it launched was to secure our Internet connection by changing our settings to conform to the secure network's servers.
Spotflux has a unique Setup wizard that offers more options than most installers, including extra software we declined to install. Unlike some VPN clients, Spotflux is easy enough for anyone to use.
Spotflux is a free encrypted VPN client that routes your Internet traffic through a series of secure servers that mask your actual IP and make it virtually impossible to trace the connection back to your computer.