Google Chrome web browser

[mion]

Download:
http://www.google.com/chrome

I just download it found one con like I did with firefox 2, it does not remember zoom in on website. That was solved in firefox 3, every time I close window and reopen I have to zoom in on websites. Chrome runs like two processes for every open tab.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080901/...google_browser


http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/2...-on-the-comic/

Here’s a quick and dirty executive summary of the project’s highlights in advance of its Tuesday debut.

SPEED

Chrome is based on the open-source rendering engine WebKit–the same engine used by Apple’s Safari browser and Google’s own Android mobile platform. WebKit is known for its speed, responsiveness and smart memory management. And Chrome will undoubtedtly use it to render the full-blown applications we so often encounter on the Web these days with ease. Adding a bit more speed to the browsing experience is a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, which specifically accelerates JavaScript’s in-browser performance.

STABILITY

Chrome is also multi-threaded, meaning it can perform multiple processes at the same time. Each application is given its own memory and its own copy of global data structures, just as it would be in a typical operating system. Applications will launch in their own windows. And if one should hang or crash it won’t affect the others, or crash the whole browser because it’s essentially been partitioned off in its own sandbox.

USER EXPERIENCE

Chrome features a tab-based design where the tabs appear above the browser’s URL window and control buttons. Each tab has its own controls and address bar called “Omnibox” with auto-completion features as well as previous and suggested search functions. New tabs will open with a display of a user’s nine most-visited pages.

PRIVACY/SECURITY

On the privacy and security front, Chrome offers an “Incognito” window, which logs no browsing information whatsoever. Beyond that, it allows only pop-up windows that are user-initiated. And it maintains a continually updated list of harmful sites and warns users if they should try to browser them.

STANDARDS

Finally, Chrome will include Google’s open-source local runtime Gears and be released as an Open Source project.

THAT’S NO MOON BROWSER. IT’S AN SPACE STATION OS…

It is an effort that seems to be striving for quite a bit more than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla’s Firefox 3. In fact, with its view of the Web as a Web of applications and its multi-process/multi-application design, Chrome almost seems more an operating system than a browser, doesn’t it? Funny, isn’t it. Google’s long been rumored to have been developing a browser and an OS. Who would have thought they’d be the same thing.

There is like comic book explaining it.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8Us...tcover#PPA1,M1

[Lestat]

sounds neat, but we'll see.
i'll give it a brutalizing at work tommorrow.

[The Coolest]

That sounds pretty cool to me. Hope it delivers. Also open source sounds good too.
Will be testing it when I get some time.

[[XC] Lead Head]

Yikes. Sounds like a big blow to the Mozilla/Google relationship?

[Quest_7F]

I was thinking the same thing about the google/mozilla activity, but... I am bored I wish it was out so I could mess around with it.

[Macadamia]

Brutally cool.


Makes Firefox looks like that grandma from 2004. You know, ever since FF took over the enthusiasts, the developers have been utterly useless in evolving the web browser and played it so safe. Just like some other company called Microsoft during the IE6 days.

Now IE8 makes a comeback and Chrome is nothing short of amazing... wewt.

[xlink]

where do I download it?

[Dalten]

Not another friggin browser.

[Swatrecon_]

I really liked that graphic novel thing, it's easy to understand. The browser looks pretty good. I'm no expert on Firefox, but this seems better.

[chunkylover77]

Yikes. Sounds like a big blow to the Mozilla/Google relationship?

Funny thing is they just extended that relationship.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28...e-for-3-years/

[villa1n]

Funny thing is they just extended that relationship.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28...e-for-3-years/

heh, yeah beat me to citing that. Found that pretty interesting too. Although it seems then, the aim is to take out IE explorer, and possibly opera as collateral damage.

[Gamekiller]

where do I download it?

I'm wondering this as well. I think I read something about it being packaged with "Gears" or something.

http://gears.google.com/

[p2501]

Never tried Gears, but this browser seems very interesting. I particularly like this "each window is partitioned in it's own sandbox" for not crashing the whole browser if one site/app crashes one window.

[inCore]

I'm wondering this as well. I think I read something about it being packaged with "Gears" or something.

http://gears.google.com/

I downloaded Gears but that's just a browser extension. The browser itself is supposed to be released today and it's going to be announced on Google's blog:

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

[largon]

I'm definitely going to give this a try.

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[LuckyNV]

Funny thing is they just extended that relationship.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28...e-for-3-years/

probably due to this

Mozilla uses the funds to pay staff, support its bandwidth and hardware infrastructure, and to distribute a number of grants. Because the search giant accounts for 85% of its revenues, Mozilla has become almost totally reliant on Google, something that has apparently concerned a number of members in the open source community.

Mozilla needs Google more than anything...

[Shintai]

Google total control of your internet surfing and behaviour? Ouch...talk about supertargetted ads.

[Miss Banana]

Google total control of your internet surfing and behaviour? Ouch...talk about supertargetted ads.

Why so paranoid?
Chrome is open source, so it's not like google can use to do stuff we don't know about.

[Shintai]

Why so paranoid?
Chrome is open source, so it's not like google can use to do stuff we don't know about.

How does google earn money again? And just because its opensource doesnt mean its not tailored for it. Personally I put google to be worse than both Apple and MS.

[LaMpiR]

This as everything which Google does, will be awesome!!!

[bowman]

Hey, it's threaded! Where's that guy in the reviewing thread complaining about browsers being single-threaded?

I'll definitely cue up to try this.

[inCore]

Hey, it's threaded! Where's that guy in the reviewing thread complaining about browsers being single-threaded?

I'll definitely cue up to try this.

Hurray, I can start my browser in half a second rather than in one.

[gallardo]

And it says it has a way to view websites without recording anything... no cookies, no nothing. Talk about tailored for watching :banana::banana::banana::banana:!

[lithpiperpilot]

I'm really looking forward to chrome. Especially after reading the the comic about it. Maybe this will really help.

[Dragy2k]

Woot cant wait for the google phone ......ooops