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Google Chrome, the Google Browser
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."
To the vast majority of users, Netscape was the Internet.
Google has since taken that place. Google is the Internet to many people. So much so that Google has felt compelled to to prevent the genericizing of their mark.
Well I'd better do some googling to find out about that.
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To take advantage of the forefront in "tabs at the top" technology, of course. I am personally very excited that science has progressed to the point where we can now have tabs above the address bar.
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Yeah, but it's September fools day, right?
Can't stay on task long enough to read a Slashdot summary ? Better up your Ritalin dose.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Just when you thought Google wasn't going to get any cooler, we try desperately to prove you wrong.
Don't worry, it won't be out of Beta until IE 10.
Now with Omni Bar, the omniscient Awesome Bar
Just when you thought data mining couldn't get any closer to home
OK, in all seriousness I think it's nice to see another Webkit based browser around. I'm personally waiting to see the Epiphany team's Webkit based browser. Hopefully, Google's Chrome project will spur some innovations that the Firefox/Safari/Opera/IE competition has failed to supply. Maybe the JS engine will prove it's worth as well, speedups in this area are always nice.
I don't think Google has enough of my personal information, so this will be just wonderful.
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would be an *online browser*. Like Google docs. Imagine just how great it would be not to need a browser to go online. History, cookies, bookmarks, all stored on Google servers. Plus it would be incredibly fast since the internet is already on Google servers!
Also that would be very convenient for Google, they could access our private information locally on their servers, no need to "call home". Hell they could even check with our e-bank statements to see how much money we can spend so they could offer really well-targeted ads.
That would be huge. All they need for me to sign up is to throw in some features involving blogs, mashups and Spacebook.
lucm, indeed.
And there's more:
They've taken IE's disgusting perverted porn mode idea that only perverts would use, and put it in their own browser so now you can use it to keep your wholesome family activity like buying surprise gifts for your loving husband or your precious children, a delightful little secret for now. Finally, a browser for good-old fashioned God fearing Americans like you and me. Gosh, those perverts at Microsoft, a porn mode! Who would imagine such a thing...
my mum rang me before asking why the internet is not working
i asked her "whats wrong?"
she said "google is not loading!"
me "oh ok?!"
mum "the logo is not there!"
thats when it hit me that she didn't know that google change logos regularly and it really confused her
Are you kidding?? Did we just Slashdot Google? If not then why does it read "Not Found Error 404" on http://www.google.com/chrome?
Less surprising perhaps, I keep getting the status code 301 for www.microsoft.com/steve-ballmers-chair
She made the willows dance
I for one will fully support Microsoft once 'Porn Mode' is activated by a mouse gesture in IE8.
On page 13, they have completed Hitler's dream. Germany seems to occupy Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland,most of Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary.
Weird because the rest of the chart seems pretty correct.
This must mean all of Google are Nazi's.
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
Please look at its source code and come back to us.
I wasn't aware I should look at the source code everytime I want to make sure something occured in an application. When I hit 'send' in gmail, do I need to look at the source code to make sure the email was sent?
Well how else you think Schroedinbugs can exist? Microsoft is way ahead of Open Source world on this one.
You don't know what you don't know.
Don't be silly, Google *loves* URLs. Well, at least certain ones. http://www.google.com/ is awesome, as are http://www.blogger.com/ http://www.gmail.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ and http://www.froogle.com/ just to name a few!
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
So will Google add ad filtering capabilities?
Try it for a day. Then comment.
It sucks. As do all the things that open up on the side of the page like the history (ctrl-h) and bookmarks (ctrl-b) in FireFox.
I really don't like things to open or display on the side in most cases, except in file browsers that have the directory tree on the left and files on the right. (Just so you know: when I put post-it tabs on dead tree books, I put them at the top).
I've got a really neat and revolutionary idea, though: Why not let the user decide where the tabs go? Then they can go on the top, the bottom, the left, the right, or even maybe a floating window!!! I should file for a patent.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
I'll contact HR and have them run a survey for ya
bah!*@%!
the name of the VM doesn't exactly send the signal that it will be the fastest one around?
Hey, I'm a RoadWarrior driving one of the last of the V8s, you insensitive clod!
On top or below? That's what she said, and I couldn't make up my mind; then she left.
"October" is the month following September. That window is a calendar.
I'm not sure that I understand you: "using Yahoo's search engine" ??? What is this crazy talk?
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