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."

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Mod parent up :)

[bishiraver]

Bingo.

Great. another goddamn browser to test

[unity100]

whatever you worked on. this is becoming really annoying.

Amen. Tabs are broken UI on a Mac for instance

[snowwrestler]

The Mac windowing paradigm gives each "thing" its own Web page, even within apps. If you have two files open in Photoshop, each is its own window on the desktop. Macs have this great thing called Expose that makes it dead simple to manage all your open windows and switch between them. Tabbed browsing breaks all of this. I always turn off tabbed browsing in Firefox on my Mac. I'm so used to using Expose, and if I have more than one tab open within a Firefox window that content is effectively hidden from my normal workflow.

To address the topic of this discussion--I certainly hope the Mac version of Google Chrome has an option to put each "tab" in its own OS-level window.