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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."
It's simply called Google Browser (and it was released on April, 1st, 2006)
And so would any ad-infested browser they put out. The company is smoke and mirrors and has never done anything remotely innovative. Browser rumors are merely a pathetic attempt to boost stock. Get out while you can.
Most of the features are already available in existing browsers (or plugins for Firefox). Speed dial? Come on, it's so 2006.
What I fear is that Google will bring in this browser the lousy "don't sort it, search it" strategy that is so annoying in GMail, and that would become a standard feature in other browsers. What will they mess up? No folders for bookmarks? Random order for tabs so we must search to find a specific one?
They *removed* the concept of folders in their mail client, while adding nothing (we could already do search in other mail clients). Even tags exist in other mail client, often with much more power (like Thunderbird).
I've had it with Google search.
lucm, indeed.
Another browser that will erode firefox's marketshare and convince more webmasters to write IE only websites. Safari was bad enough but this will make it look like IE is gaining marketshare as firefox drops.
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now with extra spyware!
Google to the rescue. I'm so sick of webstandards. We need some functionality. Also a virtual machine for js seems only like a basis to start building some real applications. Let them have monopoly. The others have been fooling around with us for to long.
Actually, the first question was "who the fuck is Scott McCloud?"
And let's be honest, any other way to do it is just wrong. Go Opera! :)
It's a revolution, putting tabs ABOVE the address bar? What an innovative new design.
I think I'll just crap my pants right now at how amazingly cool google is, and how they keep pushing the technology of webbrowsing beyond my wildest imagination.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I don't want websites to support my browser - I want my browser to support the standards, so that I don't have to endure the Anti-Microsoft Hate Speech some website coders force down our throats when they do their browser check...please, grow up and get over it. I've tried Safari, Firefox and Opera. I go back to IE because it's there, and it does what I need it to do. Display a web page. AND without crashing near as often as the others I have tried. Yes, this may be because of Big Bad Microsoft's OS monopoly and/or anti-competitive practices. What I want is to see the web page as accurately and as quickly as I can, on whatever platform I happen to be using. Stick with the published standards. If new features are required, get a consensus with the standards body. Optimize your code for the platform you're publishing on. Differentiate your product by giving me something I can't get easily get elsewhere. If Microsoft comes up with some nifty features that can enhance the experience of the user, then Firefox, Opera et al should rush to support them, in order to appeal to the vast majority of the browser using audience...i.e. (pardon the slight pun) the couple of hundred million users of Windows. Most of whom, like me, don't really care what browser we use, as long as it works. After all, Microsoft has no problem integrated features pioneered elsewhere. Becuase we like them, want them and use them.
Nothing to see here but us trolls...move along...
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.
It's only available as an RPM package (not even source is available yet) so I had to convert it to .deb with alien. It installed fine, but it really seems like Firefox with a screwed up theme. I can't get the tab bar back where it belongs, and regular Firefox extensions won't install. The keyboard shortcuts only work on the Latin keyboard layout, and it seems to render pages really slow, like see-the-letters-appear-on-screen slow. At least it's not crashing like Firefox 3 does!
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Avi: Shut up and sit down, you big, bald fuck. I don't like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything less then warm sandy beaches, and cocktails with little straw hats.
Doug the Head: We've got sandy beaches...
Avi: So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em?
IE8? Slashdot? Promoting Microsoft? Wrong audience man
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
on what machine?
It may not be safari getting better, it may just be the hardware getting faster.
All i know is:
when i started using safari, the stop button worked, now it just reloads the page a second time when I didn't want it to load even once.
safari will often take its sweet time loading some pages.. completely at random, while other net apps will be just fine.
safari crashes routinely browsing slashdot.
VLC FOR MAC IS DYING! IF YOU DEVELOP, PLEASE SAVE IT!!
Opera is Gay.
wait, IE is gay
hmm.. im comfused!
"and put the tabs above the address bar (not below), "
Why the hell that? It's a totally stupid idea - i some times have 30 or more tabs opened, the tab bar grows downward, if there was supposed to be an address bar below that it would be moving all over the screen as i open and close tabs - unless of course they have just a single tab line where people have to scroll left and right, which is user hostile in the extreme.
They are just forcing some different idea on people for the sake of being different (much like Microsoft), its like that damn GMail where they refuse to give us folders - the Firefox people got it right in Firefox3 where they added tags to bookmarks, but still allow you to use folders for them - both are needed because its two different kind of conceptional data manipulation metaphors.
Google you might have been a friend once, but the day you made it impossible to get in contact with humans at your site about any of your offers is the day you crossed over.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating