Google Launches Internet Browser - Chrome

iFrankie · 02-09-2008, 03:46

more details here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7593106.stm

The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

and it will arrive today according to sources, the name of the browser is "Google Chrome" odd name lol

MovedGoalPosts · 02-09-2008, 09:58

All I hope is that it does a proper job of interpreting HTML and other code, unlike certain default browsers I could mention. It's a real pain in the rear trying to design websites when each browser does different things with it.

Ravenheart · 02-09-2008, 10:25

Some more info is appearing, including a google comic about it!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...n-browser.html

A Google comic (yes a comic) about it http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html

EDIT: Having looked through the comic, it's quite informative, and Chrome has some great features, they're even allowing their anti phishing/spyware/malware api available to everyone.

**Chris** · 02-09-2008, 10:41

Exciting stuff. I wonder whether the Google brand name will tempt some of the people who haven't bothered to try anything other than IE yet?

MovedGoalPosts · 02-09-2008, 11:04

Looks like this is developed for Windows only, at the moment - mac and linux users will have to wait a little while yet.

Wonder if it will support some of the plugins that only run under Internet Explorer. Some of the sites I have to use for work just will not run under Firefox.

**Chris** · 02-09-2008, 11:15

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Originally Posted by Rob

Looks like this is developed for Windows only, at the moment - mac and linux users will have to wait a little while yet.

Wonder if it will support some of the plugins that only run under Internet Explorer. Some of the sites I have to use for work just will not run under Firefox.

AFAIK that sort of consideration usually comes down to licencing. Maybe Mozilla can't afford (or chooses not to spend money on) licencing certain MS plugins (presumably you're thinking about Activex?). Google, on the other hand, practically has a licence to print money, so acquiring licences to use plugins shouldn't be a problem, should they choose to do that.

You're right, they've developed a Windoze version first, which seems like a reasonable approach. I don't imagine we'll have an excessively long wait for their *nix versions to appear though.

**Damien** · 02-09-2008, 12:06

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Originally Posted by Rob

All I hope is that it does a proper job of interpreting HTML and other code, unlike certain default browsers I could mention. It's a real pain in the rear trying to design websites when each browser does different things with it.

It should render similar to Safari, it uses it's rendering core (webkit).

**Chris** · 02-09-2008, 12:11

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Originally Posted by Damien

It should render similar to Safari, it uses it's rendering core (webkit).

Safari is a very nice browser indeed ... the only reason I don't use it is because I like playing with all the many extensions and themes available in Firefox.

I wonder whether Chrome is going to allow the same sort of customization?

Has anyone read all of the cartoon at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ by the way? It's quite long but very informative. I'm not an IT person but I learned a lot about the way a browser is built and operates, and how Chrome sets out to be different.

**Damien** · 02-09-2008, 12:13

The comic was good! Makes me excited about the release tomorrow (shame about the longer wait for the Mac Version). It seems to be fundamentally different and more powerful.

directoryxd · 02-09-2008, 12:39

Very good news ...

I hope it will much better than others

sherer · 02-09-2008, 12:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damien

The comic was good! Makes me excited about the release tomorrow (shame about the longer wait for the Mac Version). It seems to be fundamentally different and more powerful.

isn't the release on Tuesday ? I was waiting for everyone to wake up in the US and then hoping we could get it today.

Will try this out and see what it is like, it can't be any worse than IE and with each tab being a seperate process then when a tab crashes the browser won't.

The problem with browswer is they all work quick out of the box but you have to bloat them with javascript, flash, etc etc just to get pages to display properly

**Damien** · 02-09-2008, 12:43

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Originally Posted by sherer

isn't the release on Tuesday ? I was waiting for everyone to wake up in the US and then hoping we could get it today.

Will try this out and see what it is like, it can't be any worse than IE and with each tab being a seperate process then when a tab crashes the browser won't.

The problem with browswer is they all work quick out of the box but you have to bloat them with javascript, flash, etc etc just to get pages to display properly

Which this is meant to combat as well

iFrankie · 02-09-2008, 12:56

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030025-2.html

some screen shots of the browser! how much longer do we have to wait!

admars · 02-09-2008, 13:11

it looks good "on paper", but it'll need adblockplus for me to be interested

**Damien** · 02-09-2008, 13:20

It's 4am PST, There is a conference at 11am so at least 7 hours to go.