Google Chrome

Random · 09-02-2008, 12:58 PM

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...n-browser.html
Just read about this, old news probably but it is a new open source web browser made by google. It is meant to have the best bits from Firefox and Opera built into a CPU friendly, simple interfaced browser.

There is a comic outlining all the main features and I am very interested in comics 3-5 about there ideas to speed it up, if it works it would be great.
http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/1

It is meant to be released in 100 countries today for beta testing, this could either be fantastic or rubbish, not sure which yet.

Concr3te · 09-02-2008, 03:47 PM

I love Google

Hopefully it will be as good as Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Calendar, Google whatnot

**jepzilla** · 09-02-2008, 05:41 PM

Firefox and Opera? Chrome will be a WebKit/KHTML based browser (like Safari and Konqueror).

I wonder what Google is up to with this, since they currently supply most of Mozilla's funding.

Random · 09-02-2008, 05:52 PM

I forgot to mention, when it is out the download link will be:
http://gears.google.com/chrome/

Also is it just me or is the logo a cross between Apature Science and the Firefox logo?

**Tybalt** · 09-02-2008, 06:40 PM

Google is probably pissed that both Internet Explorer and Firefox can block Google's advertisements. So they're making their own browser.

It may be a similar story to Android: Verizon et al's proprietary browsers don't provide full access to Google search and apps, thereby cutting Google's ad revenue. So they made their own cell phone software.

**icky** · 09-02-2008, 06:44 PM

It looks very cool. I think the reason is simply that Google depends on browsers heavily for their core income, and funding mozilla is not getting them where they want to be. I think Google's experience with developing for other browsers will pave the path for their success with their own browser. Unless there is some obvious flaw with their product, I think it will be huge.

**jepzilla** · 09-02-2008, 07:04 PM

Now that I think about it, I imagine the primary justification is Google Apps and other 'rich' web content. WebKit rendering engine with their own high performance JavaScript implementation, plus Gears... yeah, definitely going to be more for 'web apps on your desktop' than browsing. Looking at what they've published it sounds a lot like they think Firefox is has fundamentally design flaws that make it inappropriate as a serious platform, and I doubt they trust Microsoft. Hence Chrome... the name even sounds like some toolkit layer.