Anyone who loves to click pictures with Instagram and to run Instagram on your PC was never been this simple. If you are amongst the millions of other Instagram fans, and looking for further ways to access your favorite application through the internet, by simple browser enhancement you can do everything that you wanted to do on Instagram.
What is Instagram for Chrome?
Instagram is nothing but a simple browser plug-in. This will allow you to view your Instagram account and interact with it via Google Chrome. As this plug-in has been designed for the Chrome browser, especially, this will only work when you have Chrome installed in your PC. However, this plug-in does allow taking your Instagram experience off from your mobile phone and switch it on your desktop screen. Since you can now access your feed from within your browser, this will make things very simple for you.
What are the Benefits?
Leaving the fact that this application will makes your life much simpler than ever it was, now you will not only be able to view your Instagram via your chrome browser, but at the same time you can like others’ pictures and also can make comments on your friends photos. You will be now able to access to some of the very popular Instagram photos and also can download the pictures and upload your pictures using your desktop.
Are There Any Issues?
Instagram is an application for especially designed for Chrome has been created or developed after a lot of hard work. Even though this application does work well, it has some kinks to it as well. Most of the issues are related to the user interface. The application will give you the same interface as you would find on your phone, but there are some inherent differences that need to look upon. You cannot go backwards, to begin with. If you really want to go back, you have to follow longer route to the menu options and select the page you want to go back to. Another issue with this application is that when you can look at the photographs from your own feed, you cannot download these pictures easily, for doing so you have to download another application. Another problem with this plug-in is that once you have downloaded and installed it on your desktop, you will be logged in your account at all times. You never log out from this plug-in. The only way to do so is to uninstall the complete application, which I am sure you do not want but if you have to log in using a different account, you have to reinstall it. This will make the entire process very tedious and irritating. So essentially, application built for those people who have a single account on Instagram, or the ones who just want to access a single account from their PC.
The Verdict
While there are some problems with the way this application works and about its user interface, still it is a huge step up from to access Instagram on your PC, which was not possible earlier. If you want better user experience, you must use one of the Instagram web viewers, which have become quite popular these days. Pixsta, BlueStacks and Webstagram are some of the more popular web viewers you can choose to use.