Google Chrome catch-all thread

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From WSJ:

Google Inc. plans to launch its own Web browser, people familiar with the matter said, in the latest twist in a battle with Microsoft Corp. over key Internet technologies.

The browser, called Google Chrome, is likely to be announced soon, according to these people. They say software is designed to make it easier and faster to browse the Web, by offering enhanced address-bar features and other elements that are very different from other browsers. The product will be open-sourced, meaning others can modify the code.

Gorilla.800.lbs wrote:

From WSJ:

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Google Inc. plans to launch its own Web browser, people familiar with the matter said, in the latest twist in a battle with Microsoft Corp. over key Internet technologies.

The browser, called Google Chrome, is likely to be announced soon, according to these people. They say software is designed to make it easier and faster to browse the Web, by offering enhanced address-bar features and other elements that are very different from other browsers. The product will be open-sourced, meaning others can modify the code.

Great. Just freaking great. Another web browser we have to worry about compatibility with. My job just got 25% more annoying.

Wow. Beta tomorrow. From the comic, I'm quite intrigued. I'll probably be giving it a try.

The Wall Street Journal isn't the best source for this, let's go with something that has some technical details.

kaostheory wrote:

Great. Just freaking great. Another web browser we have to worry about compatibility with. My job just got 25% more annoying.

Google Chrome will use Webkit, so we're not talking about a brand new browser here. More like Safari + a VM that JavaScript runs in, with a new UI and a Google logo slapped on.

I'm looking forward to checking it out.

Isn't Safari incredibly insecure on the Windows side? And this is the codebase Chrome is going to use?

You can read the original announcement over on the Official Google Blog. As a web applications developer, I'm very interested to see how it all pans out. The back-and-forth between browsers featuring additional functionality outside of a standard spec (think ActiveX, for example), has me a bit wary on being too excited about it, but it is Google, and going completely open source should work heavily in their favor.

I'm looking forward to it. Looks like it has massive potential.

If you read the comic (it's long) I like a lot of what they're doing architecturally, which theoretically improves the fundamental security of the whole browser paradigm. As always. Proof->pudding.

Having great security is a must but I wonder how user friendly it will be. It's google so I'm sure it will be fine. It is going to take a lot to get me off of Firefox though.

rabbit wrote:

If you read the comic (it's long) I like a lot of what they're doing architecturally, which theoretically improves the fundamental security of the whole browser paradigm. As always. Proof->pudding.

If they do even half of what they claim it's going to be groundbreaking, and Google has the resources to make it happen so I'm cautiously optimistic.

The beta launches at 18.00 GMT.

kaostheory wrote:

Great. Just freaking great. Another web browser we have to worry about compatibility with. My job just got 25% more annoying.

I agree. I hope they fail miserably and only get 1% userbase.

I disagree. I hope they succeed and the features they created are incorporated into every web browser if it works as well as they explain it.

Edwin wrote:

I disagree. I hope they succeed and the features they created are incorporated into every web browser if it works as well as they explain it.

I agree. Competition is a very good thing. Besides, IE needs more ideas to steal.

magnus wrote:
kaostheory wrote:

Great. Just freaking great. Another web browser we have to worry about compatibility with. My job just got 25% more annoying.

I agree. I hope they fail miserably and only get 1% userbase.

While I can see the issue with it, maybe it'll bite out of IE's share. Having an OS (And I'm betting any additions will be above and beyond the standards, while being standards compliant for the most part.

And while proof -> pudding == true, Google tends to make mighty fine pudding.

My browsing exerience is so fully bent around the Opera interface, it'd take a lot to get me to switch. But I'll give it a shot, Google has always been good at stuff like this. Besides, Opear 9.5x is unbelievably buggy. How they managed to put this many crash bugs into one update is beyond me. Still the best thing out there, but only when it works.

Screenshots.

Looks like they already released it, quietly, and then pulled.

OMG, in that comic, there's a guy named Ben Goodger!

rabbit wrote:

Proof->pudding.

ERROR: 'pudding' is not a member of class 'Proof'.

I don't know... I've never been the type to be changing browsers back and forth...

Maybe I'll give it a try, after all, Mosaic is not cutting it for me anymore...

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Hobbes2099 wrote:

I don't know... I've never been the type to be changing browsers back and forth...

Maybe I'll give it a try, after all, Mosaic is not cutting it for me anymore...

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Well, if you want to move out of 1999, here you go :p

They threw the doors open at 3pm EST.

Will check it out once I am home tonight.

I opened all the tabs I have open in Firefox (still 2 because of plug-ins) in Chrome. Chrome takes up less than 10% of the memory Firefox does. I wonder how it'd compare with a base install of Firefox 3.

This thing also boots up incredibly fast.

Like, hellafast.

And the clean look that gives me more space on screen to see a web page has pretty much got me sold.

Unless this thing just crashes all the time, I think I'm switched.

So far, I like. Only thing I need to get used to is some other kind of RSS reader - I was a big fan of live bookmarks.

Any adblocking in here?

wait, is this thing windows only?
where is my mac version?

I like the idea of the tiled bookmarks, but it looks like they are only recently visited pages. In Firefox I was using speed dial to do the same thing but setting the link locations. I would love that to work the same here.

I can't get over how fast this thing is.

I'm finding it slower than FF3. :/ I'll give it some time to get the hang of it.

I love the layout, but I'll miss my plugins.

rabbit wrote:

So far, I like. Only thing I need to get used to is some other kind of RSS reader - I was a big fan of live bookmarks.

I've been using Google Reader for a while anyway.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

I love the layout, but I'll miss my plugins.

Since it's open source, I'm sure the plug-ins will show up sooner or later.

SirRockford wrote:
MrDeVil909 wrote:

I love the layout, but I'll miss my plugins.

Since it's open source, I'm sure the plug-ins will show up sooner or later.

No doubt, probably sooner. And I retract my comment about the speed.

Memory usage, using Chrome's own tool, seems the same though. With the same tabs open they are both at about 64 megs

It is windows only so I am going to try it when I get home from work. Crappy on Googles part to release it windows only.

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