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Google Chrome, the Google Browser

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-unfounded-rumor dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "Google announced their very own browser project called Google Chrome — an announcement in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, no less. Google says Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include the Google Gears add-on by default, and put the tabs above the address bar (not below), among other things. I've also uploaded Google's comic book with all the details (details given from Google's perspective, anyway... let's see how this holds up). While Google provided the URL www.google.com/chrome there's nothing up there yet."

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  1. why???? by tekman94 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why do we need one more browser out there. There are already like 50 of them. Not only that, but Google is becoming what Microsoft was in the 90's and that's just scary.

  2. Tabs above the address bar? by argent · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's what Opera does, and it drives me nuts. It's like going back to MDI.

    If that's not optional, it's not even worth bothering looking at.

  3. If I understand the Comic Correctly by notseamus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's tabbed browsing that's been causing memory leak all this time.

    That's it, I'm going back to IE6 until Chrome comes out.

    --
    I dreamed of Freud: What does this mean?
  4. Re:Very Interesting... by Chrisq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, it's even better than that. Instead of whining about how this application is going to be configured and trying to change it to suit yourself... now you may want to be sitting down for this...

    don't use it.

    I'm glad you warned me. Don't use something from GOOGLE! I'm not sure I get that concept.