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AnonJr
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 Posted - 02 September 2008 : 06:51:41
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Just in case you haven't heard, Google is making a new web browser that has "borrowed" from FireFox and Web Kit. They're calling it "Google Chrome" and I'm expecting a perpetual beta.  According to all the reports I've found, it should be available for download tomorrow.
They put together a little comic to explain what it is and what it isn't a la some of the things I saw MS do with the release of Office 2007 - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
And here's the official blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
It looks interesting, and I'll probably download it and take a look. As much as I like competition in the market, IMHO there's too many players in this market to make testing easy. What I'd love to see is some sort of intermediary "reference" browser that works as the W3C intended, giving us something to test our pages against and giving the browser makers something to benchmark against... I can dream.  < |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 07:10:57
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| oh great, yet more spy ware< |
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cripto9t
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 11:41:14
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Originally posted by HuwR
oh great, yet more spy ware
That was my first thought.< |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 12:13:10
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I'll reserve judgement vis-a-vis Google's data aggregation until I see reports that confirm/deny any data exchange between the two. I have a funny feeling the browser itself is more a tool to make the Google Gears platform more appealing.
Having said all that, I like a lot of what I'm hearing about the architecture and design of the browser itself. Here's hoping Microsoft et al steal a few ideas.< |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 12:16:08
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i looked at all the stuff in the first link in your post, and to be honest it sounds like IE8 
you can bet your life that it will be data gathering for google, that is after all there reason for being, they already control >80% of the advertising revenue on the web, it woll soon become googlenet not the internet. and people worry about microsoft.< |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 12:28:57
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The much ballyhooed "InPrivate" tab definitely sounds like it was grabbed from IE8; and the seamless browsing for web apps sounds like Mozilla Prisim; and the smart bar sounds like a fusion of FireFox 3's original feature and IE8's take on the same feature; and a few other items sound like they were taken from either Opera, Fx, and/or IE. The comic itself is reminiscent of what MS did with the Office 2007 release.
I think the separation of each tab into its own process sounds like a good idea on paper, I'll wait 'till I see it in action as lately I've seen too many ideas that look good on paper that don't pan out well in practice. Ditto for the sand-boxing and the V8 JavaScript Engine.< |
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HuwR
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AnonJr
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United States
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 12:47:56
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| Hmmm. That does look similar. I'd love to see someone with a greater understanding of what the two are doing compare/contrast the approaches if they aren't doing the same thing.< |
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HuwR
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 12:51:16
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Tabs are isolated from the frame, and are located in separate processes
sounds the same to me  < |
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RichardKinser
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AnonJr
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 15:42:22
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I'll have to download it when I get home.
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"If you are Webmaster, and your site works in Apple Safari then it will work very well in Google Chrome," Pichai said.
Random thought: I'm guessing that since they are both using WebKit, I don't need the Windows version of Safari to test my web pages now? That alone is well worth it. < |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 16:25:53
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| yeah but safari is an awful browser, even the MAC users I know hate it< |
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MaD2ko0l
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 16:36:48
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nice...just downloaded it and trying it now, and its so fast compared to IE (i don't use FF, not a fan of it)
everything loads up fast and everything is so simple. and so far all the sites i have had a quick look on seems to display the sites fine with no problems.
argh i tell a lie...on a few sites things that are centred in IE and not centering in the screen :-(
i also like the little spell checker as well, im forever mixing up letters in words< |
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TSAloha
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 02 September 2008 : 16:46:11
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| Cool... now I don't have to worry about FF... Chrome handle a language selector for CCJ as is in IE. All my Asian lang forums working great. Pretty fast for downloading pages. Not bad at all.< |
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Shaggy
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Posted - 03 September 2008 : 04:47:39
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Originally posted by HuwR
yeah but safari is an awful browser, even the MAC users I know hate it
Yup, which I always found to be a shame given how much further ahead they are than other browsers in the implementation of CSS3; looking forward to seeing what Chrome's CSS implementation is like.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 September 2008 : 05:15:28
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| trying it out at work, I'm not that impressed by it's font rendering, the Title/country and post labels next to a topic/reply are really fuzzy and not well defined at all. never seen this in any other browser (other than safari )< |
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