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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."
That's a really obvious UI clarification, and shockingly overdue. I wonder why it has taken so long for people to start doing that.
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Considering that details are so scarce, perhaps this is simply a component of Android?
Either that, or it's intended to be a proof of concept, rather than something to be used by end-users.
It simply doesn't make sense for Google to want to compete with Mozilla.
At the very least, it's almost certain to have KHTML/WebKit or Gecko on the backend. It's a *lot* of work to make a new browser from scratch.
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In fact, Opera defaults to having the tabs above the address bar! Will wonders never cease!
I do wish that Opera 9.5 hadn't uglified the UI, though.
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