The hot news on the web this week has been Google releasing its own browser, Google Chrome. Most reviews praise the new browser, and my experiences with it so far have been strongly positive. But… what does this mean for online business?

Well first thing is that you should download the browser and take a good look at how your website runs. Go to every page of your site, fill out your contact forms, make a booking or fulfil an order. The key here is to test every part of your functionality.

You may find minor formatting differences between Chrome and your normal browser, but the important thing is to check everything works. So far we’ve noticed some issues with javascript, but that’s just about it.

You may find it interesting that Google Chrome uses the same rendering engine as Safari for Macintosh, so how you see your website in Chrome will be the same as how it will look for Mac users with Safari.

Web developers job just got a little trickier with the introduction of Chrome, as there’s now another browser to add to the mix of our testing regime. If you’d like to know how your website looks in a whole bunch of browsers, have a look at Browser Cam.