Google chrome

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Anyone heard about Google Chrome? Basiclly it's a web browser that Google are making. There is a beta expected to be released later on today (I'll give you a link to it once I see it).

It's an Open Source browser. By the looks of things it's not designed to be packed with features, but it seems to focus more on performance, reliability and security.

Google have a blog post about it here and a comic-style explaination of the browser here.

I'll give it a go when I can, seems like a worthwhile thing to check out.

[Download Chrome Here]

it won't hurl random advertisments my way will it?

This sounds pretty exciting -- perhaps they want to get a branded web browser functional and established so that it comes standard on android a la safari on the iPhone?

make sure you link us all Pokeh

As far as I know I don't think that you'll get random advertisements. I guess that they would make the default serch provider Google and would just earn revenue off of that to support the costs associated with coding and designing it.

Interestingly Google will still be giving Mozilla cash for Firefox until 2011, even though they're both turning in to competitors now. Annoyingly I can't remember where I found that information out from.

Anyway, as-of time of posting this messge, it's still not up for download.

yeah apparently the site went live for a few moments earlier, screenshots look good.

Seems to have a type of speed dial feature but it displays your top 9 sites and i think it updates them. I'm really interested in this

also they're not really trying to compete with firefox as they're openly offering the features to other browsers - i expect firefox's next big update to merge a lot of the features we'll see

Can't wait for this bad boy now!

What I meant was that Google Chrome may "steal" a couple of Firefox's users.

Although there's difference between the two: Google Chrome, from the desriptions of it, seems to focus on performance and whatnot. One of Firefox's big "selling points" are the inclusion of themes and add-ons. While Chrome seems to support these, I think tht Firefox will be regarded as the most customisable browser for a few months/years to come yet.

To whet your apetite i've found some Sreenshots here and there's also a Wikipedia Article about it.

If i'm honest, by looking at the screenshot i'm not keen on the GUI, but i'm probably being nitpicky there.

Looks nice if i'm honest - if its going to be available to all OS then i reckon they'll have different stylings slightly - it'll only appear on OS X if it conforms to the design of everything else, for example - otherwise it'll stick out like a sore thumb.

That's the thing. I don't like it when appliations stick out like a sore thumb and don't look similar to the rest of the GUI.

One of the reasons why I don't use iTunes that much and just tend to use WMP.

Meh.

Care, I do not.

I'll probably still use firefox more, tend to always try out new browsers though to see if there's anything outstanding about them.

Same. I've tried out Firefox, Opera and Safari, and i've just kept going back to Firefox. I liked Operas Mouse Gestures though.

i'd use opera outright if it could load all webpages without problems. it's faster to start up and seems to load pages faster. It's great being able to sync with versions on other PCs and even on my mobile.

Syncing bookmarks isn't that much of a big deal to me. When I was using Opera I didn't really come across problems with most websites that I visited. deviantArt didn't seem to want to upload images for some reason.

There is a Firefox add-on for that i think its called Firegestures 1.1.2

Word , I is runing Opera mini on my n95 8gb which is suprisigly fast

I'll check that out when I get home later.

the formatting buttons above the box i'm typing in now also don't work on Opera which really annoyed me, and the facebook chat bar is broken somewhat. I put it down to the designers of the websites really - most program in IE/firefox and tend to ignore opera as it's more of a niche browser

I'm looking forward to Chrome because:

- Each tab has its own process, when one webpage causes the browser problems it closes one tab, not all of them.

- Because each tab is a process of its own, when you shut the tab, there is no memory fragmentation, so hopefully memory leaks won't destroy browser performance

- Security is much better, the browser is given minimal rights, and can't destroy the OS. Any malicious code is only able to run in the browser tab in which it was started, so when you close it, viruses and malware are purged.

- Popups can't spawn out of a window. So adverts will only appear in the tab, and they will be contained in a small area of the screen. If you want the popup to open outside a tab you can manually move it.

- Better Javascript handling

There is plenty more to get excited about, but we'll see when it launches!

Well there's allegedly an announcement taking place 18:00 UTC, which means it started almost 15 minutes ago. I'm going to see what I can find out

Still can't find anything. I wonder what's taking them so long? It's 7pm over here...