Google Chrome Browser

[giga Veteran]

[splicer707]

Can someone post a link to download? Please? :)

It wont download for me. I guess a lot of people are trying it out :p

http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en

Just takes me to the Google search page. Is there a direct link?

[Harlem39s Finest]

sounds & looks cool, won't bother with installing though , firefox is irreplaceable atm.

[tsupersonic]

Can someone post a link to download? Please? :)

Just takes me to the Google search page. Is there a direct link?

I think you have to install Gears first. And definitely interesting...

[Impact]

Looks cool. Webkit is by far the best browser rendering engine I have experienced, so they have made the right choice in that aspect of it IMO.

[splicer707]

I think you have to install Gears first. And definitely interesting...

OK. Installed Gears. So now it's just a matter of waiting for google.com/chrome to come online, guessing.

[revvo]

Excellent. The more browsers, the better!

Microsoft will have more pressure to deliver better versions of IE

Mozilla will feel more pressure to better optimize Firefox with memory usage

The guys at Opera will feel the pressure to.... I'm not sure actually, Opera's pretty good versus vanilla Firefox and IE.

Apple will feel the pressure to force installs of Safari by surprise using their Apple Update Software :rofl:

[ViperAFK]

argh I want this now!

[:: Lyon ::]

Wooohoo! Interesting news. I can't wait til tomorrow to give it a try!

[tiagosilva29]

[CoolCatBad]

Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, both Firefox alumni, are mentioned as developers in the comic book presentation.

[ViperAFK]

http://gears.google.com/chrome/ still goes to the google homepage for me even with gears installed.

Wow! I just read theor whole comic strip. this looks amazing!

They are talking all the good features from other browsers and implementing them in chrome

Speed dial from opera + tabs on top

Private browsing from ie and safari

sandboxing from ie

separate tab processes from IE

Same js virtual machine concept currently being used in ff 3.1

can't wait to try it

Edited September 2, 2008 by ViperAFK

[wellofsouls]

The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it?s such an important component on the web today.

Does that mean Google Chrome will not be using the JavaScriptCore part of WebKit?

Google also say they?re using a ?multi-process design? which they say means ?a bit more memory up front? but over time also ?less memory bloat.? When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome?s task manager, ?placing blame where blame belongs.?

LOL, so now Goog:p is copying M$ :p Anyway this is really funny when you think about it, back in the IE6 days when each new IE instance launched uses a separate process, the "single-process design" of tabbed browser was the fashionable thing, with advantages ranging from resource saving to tidying up the process list. But now it seems to come to a full circle, where "multi-process design":laugh:s triumphantly :laugh:

Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar.

Um... I don't know what's special in that...

[Ayepecks]

Google is the new Microsoft.

Only time before it becomes a monopoly (you could argue it already is)... will it get the same treatment Microsoft has?

[giga Veteran]

Google is the new Microsoft.

Only time before it becomes a monopoly (you could argue it already is)... will it get the same treatment Microsoft has?

Except google embraces open source.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

If your into the stock market, buy Google. They probably will come out with their own OS soon.

[TakeNothingBack]

It wont download for me. I guess a lot of people are trying it out :p

http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en

Can someone post a link to download? Please? :)

Just takes me to the Google search page. Is there a direct link?

I wasn't aware that you could download it, as of yet?

[splicer707]

Except google embraces open source.

(Y) Which shows they are smart about their business approach.

Now all I want is Google to do an Operating System.. /dreams

[Ayepecks]

Except google embraces open source.

I don't see what that has to do with anything. Care to elaborate?

If Linux was the major operating system of choice and used its power in the operating system market to leverage itself into other markets, it would be a monopoly. How does open source have anything to do with it? It doesn't hurt them by any means, and it just means that they won't have to abide by the code opening rulings that Microsoft did (to see if Microsoft gained an unfair advantage in secret APIs and programming methods, if I remember correctly), but that wasn't the only slight against Microsoft.

[wellofsouls]

(Y) Which shows they are smart about their business approach.

Now all I want is Google to do an Operating System.. /dreams

well, personally I see little need for another Linux distro just because it's Google-flavoured.

[giga Veteran]

I don't see what that has to do with anything. Care to elaborate?

If Linux was the major operating system of choice and used its power in the operating system market to leverage itself into other markets, it would be a monopoly. How does open source have anything to do with it? It doesn't hurt them by any means, and it just means that they won't have to abide by the code opening rulings that Microsoft did (to see if Microsoft gained an unfair advantage in secret APIs and programming methods, if I remember correctly), but that wasn't the only slight against Microsoft.

I was using it on your comparison of them as a "new microsoft" who have different software practices. (not on the monopoly bit)

[Ghil]

and it's coming out tomorrow. I can't wait :)

And Ayepecks, Open source comes with a philosophy, and certainly has less chances of monopoly. And by the way, the structure of Linux (all those distros, free) keeps them from ever reaching monopoly.

[cykosis]

well, personally I see little need for another Linux distro just because it's Google-flavoured.

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.

[Ayepecks]

I was using it on your comparison of them as a "new microsoft" who have different software practices. (not on the monopoly bit)

My fault, I should have elaborated in that I only meant in the monopoly sense, not in that they did everything exactly alike.

[Ghil]

By the way, do you guys think there's a small chance for a midnight release? it would be nice :D