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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."
Found the comic link: http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/
I believe you're confused as to what "404 Not Found" means. It means the page you're looking for isn't there, not that the server is overloaded or can't handle the request. It's not slashdotted.
However, this is not Google's normal 404 page. They've definitely configured www.google.com/chrome differently than the rest of the site, so they're obviously planning to put something there.
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Apple chose KHTML as the foundation of WebKit for the size and quality of the codebase compared with Gecko, despite having Gecko experts working on the project. It makes sense that others would choose WebKit for the same reasons.
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They're not building the whole thing, but it's a bit more than just a rebranding. They're using Webkit (Safari, Konqueror) rather than Gecko (Firefox), but adding a new Javascript engine and UI, and building in Google Gears.
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You've never used Opera have you?
Default look is tabs (well, more like mini windows unlike binder tabs) over the adress bar. =/
Google doesn't pay Mozilla because they like firefox. They pay because Mozilla drives millions of hits to Google's search engine. As long as firefox is doing that, Google will pay (although, I'm sure they will only freely advertise their own browser now).
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It won't in the medium-term, because Google just extended its investment in Mozilla through 2011.
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Read the cartoon. You'll find a lot of interesting ideas there. It doesn't sound at all like Firefox with a few default extensions and a custom theme.
All of mozilla's code is tri-licensed -- MPL, GPL, and LGPL. Unless Google releases it under all 3 licenses (or a BSD/MIT license), they won't use it.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
If you think Google's www.google.com address just goes to one server that picks out different content by file name, you're in for a surprise. Try the http://www.google.com/chrome address and the http://www.google.com/chrome1 address with a tool that lets you look at the HTTP headers. Look at the "Server" header. Different server code. Google runs a high performance, massively load balanced, widely geographically distributed, HTTP front end that figures out what server to pass things to based on the URI part of the URL. They don't need to do separate hostnames (although they can still do that, too, such as http://maps.google.com/ and http://mail.google.com/).
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"I'm only 9 pages into the comic but the fact that every tab and plugin will run as a separate process seems significant to me and something more than just a rebranding."
Which is good because current plugins in firefox (they add up) will freeze/slowdown/crash the browser, and I hate that, it's Firefox 3 too.
modded troll? well, that's life. What I mean is that, even if it opens in another process or thread, you cannot be sure (without the code) that the processes are truly sandboxed and won't interfere with one another.
Does that mean that their relationship with Mozilla will be ending?
Google recently renewed their monetary agreement with Mozilla for 3 more years.
So, no, it seems their relationship remains strong. Google Chrome sounds like a very cool project, but I'm thinking that it'll be more of an experiment than an actual product, just like most things Google make.
Also, I doubt Mozilla would have a hard time finding funding even if Google pulls the plug on them.
Firefox isn't the only browser funded primarily by Google; Opera is as well.
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