Google Chrome Browser

[wellofsouls]

if it is based on webkit it's just safari with a different shell, if you consider this a seperate browser that is going to drive innovation than you can also consider all the internet explorer shell browsers like maxthon as such

well, it seems they have borrowed codes out of both WebKit and Firefox, and have written certain things completely from the ground up (the V8 JavaScript engine). It sounds like they have forked the code quite a lot, that's the beauty of open-source. When you make an Trident shell, you have to build it around the mshtml.dll, using public APIs to access its functionalities, there may be some ways to do some hacks, but that's it. With open-source, however, you can take the code and do whatever you want, provided you have the time and resource to do that. Google obviously has. It looks like they have thrown away the JavaScriptCore and coded their own JavaScript engine, and may have made a lot of modifications with the WebCore. So it's definitely different from those Trident shells.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

if it is based on webkit it's just safari with a different shell, if you consider this a seperate browser that is going to drive innovation than you can also consider all the internet explorer shell browsers like maxthon as such

The different between this and maxthon, is that they actually have the code and can change components.

For example, the windows port of WebKit has custom widgets, font rendering, network libraries and drawing code, Google can (and has apparently) swap all those out for more native/open source things. (I hope they used the win32 sub-port that used more open source libaries, like Cairo instead of CoreGraphics)

[Unto Darkness]

The more browsers that use webkit the better. Its a shame safari is utter crap in windows, this should be quite a nice alternative... can't wait!

I won't say its utter crap, but the rendering is awesome! I dumped FireFox for Safari because of the speed at which it renders. Google seems to be doing everything for their very first release.....at least in theory....

[CoolCatBad]

I wonder if they will offer a choice of search engines in the browser?

[Unto Darkness]

A fifth browser? Bring it ON!

Fifth? There are thousands of browsers out there, including Maxthon, Avant, Konquerer etc...

I wonder if they will offer a choice of search engines in the browser?

I doubt that.... :no:

[Lathanielt]

Hmmm.... can't wait to see what it is capable of. I think it would be great if it is a decent browser with great memory usage.

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Should be interesting, I'll definitely check it out.

[Luis.A]

I just read the whole 38 pages of the comic and I'm drooling over it. Hope to get it as soon as it comes out.

[wellofsouls]

speaking about OS-like process manger for the tabs, I wonder if they'll have the ability to modify the priority level for different tabs like the OS process manager. Now that'd be a kickass feature ;)

[Ricardo Gil]

speaking about OS-like process manger for the tabs, I wonder if they'll have the ability to modify the priority level for different tabs like the OS process manager. Now that'd be a kickass feature ;)

Overkill? :p

[Digitalx]

if it is based on webkit it's just safari with a different shell, if you consider this a seperate browser that is going to drive innovation than you can also consider all the internet explorer shell browsers like maxthon as such

Not quite. Maxthon and IE is different since IE is closed source but can be accessed via api. webkit is opensource i believe so they'll have more flexibility would moulding it into their own offering.

[wellofsouls]

Overkill? :p

well, if they are gonna do it, why not all the way ;)

[Sethos]

And everyone is going to be all over this like flies on a turd because it has "google" in the name.

[shihchiun]

Or... because it's actually something new? How often is a new browser released?

[:: Lyon ::]

Read the comic book to find out what's so different about this browser. This is Google we are talking about

[The2]

And everyone is going to be all over this like flies on a turd because it has "google" in the name.

So far, it was for a reason.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

But on the flip side of that coin: There's already a billion linux distros. What's one more?

To each their own... that's the beauty of it.

It's also its major drawback. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/fa...-of-choice.html

Chrome:

Looks good. The UI looks like it could do with a touch up but hopefully Google will allow plugins to do this.

It'd be nice for WebKit to support an XML-based markup language like XUL... would allow for a firefox-like shell around webkit. Ideal IMO.

[Angel Blue01]

I bet it'll tack your browsing movements like other Google services do, so no way.

[Rudy]

i fail to see why the UI isn't standard but whatever hopefully it will be good

[Unto Darkness]

I bet it'll tack your browsing movements like other Google services do, so no way.

We will soon see. If it does, it will go down like a stone....

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

And considering it's open source, any tracking would be found quickly and patched out.

[Keito]

We will soon see. If it does, it will go down like a stone....

I honestly couldn't care less... So Google now knows I visit neowin, some other forums, some news websites, they know were I find my porn and my warez... so what?

[Argi]

The site's getting hammered. :p

[Alexandre.]

Is this out yet?

[ViperAFK]

Is this out yet?

no