Daniel0 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html If this turns out well and I can get something like Firebug and Adblock Plus then I'm sold. Nonetheless, it sounds interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derleek Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 google is one step closer to taking over the world... this definitely has some potential. Anything that diverts people from IE is ok with me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Sounds interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Im with Daniel0 here, if I can get a chrome equivalent of Web Developer, Firebug, AdBlock Plus, and No Script then I'm sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I am unimpressed and unconcerned. It may be a decent product, but I very much doubt that it will get to be a force of any kind in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Where is the money in it for Google.... Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Hehe... did you read the comic? Google lives on the internet so they have an interest in making it a better place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Just found out they made an official announcement on their blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html Beta release tomorrow... I just hope it will not be an infinite beta like Gmail is. I am unimpressed and unconcerned. It may be a decent product, but I very much doubt that it will get to be a force of any kind in the near future. Here is a quote from Slashdot: I imagine the first question on everyone's mind will be, "Why do we need a new web browser?" To which I imagine the truthful answer is: "We don't. At least not for technical reasons." I believe what Google is looking to accomplish is to trade on their brand name in an attempt to further dislodge Internet Explorer. Remember when AOL purchased Netscape? AOL didn't care about the browser in the slightest. They wanted Netscape for the brand name. 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. In this particular case, however, the strength of their mark works to Google's advantage. They have already convinced millions of users to install their desktop software. If they can further convince millions of users to install and use their browser, they can cause enough of a disruption to finally remove IE's leadership in the browser market. Especially given the solid work already done by FireFox, Opera, and Safari. With only another 10% marketshare loss on the whole, even the most stubborn websites will be forced to support third party browsers. And once they support third party browser, it will be very little time before the technological superiority of the alternative browsers causes them to add special features not available for Internet Explorer users. It will be Netscape vs. Internet Explorer all over again. Except that instead of two giants fighting it out, it will be Microsoft against everyone else. And when everyone else happens to be giants in their own right, Microsoft's prospects will start looking rather grim. In effect, this move is a blow aimed squarly at Redmond. Not for the purposes of truth, justice, and the freedom of all mankind; as I'm sure many will imagine. Rather, for the purpose of hitting back at Microsoft for their attempts to leverage their monopoly in promoting MSN Search over Google. The only difference is that Google Search is a good product and it is entrenched. Internet Explorer hasn't been a good product since Microsoft stopped developing it nearly 8 years ago (piss-poor upgrades pretending to be standards-compliant not withstanding), and its entrenchments are slowly falling to competition. I think those a good arguments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I must admit, after reading the comic and learning more about the new ideas implemented in the Chrome browser, I am intrigued. I stand before you a changed man. Well. Not quite, but I'm interested, anyway. I think the part I'm most looking forward to is the separate memory space for each tab - hopefully their claim of less memory bloat is realized. As a few have already mentioned, though, I won't be ready to make the move until I see a way to analyze the DOM, watch JS execution, and analyze requests and responses a la Firebug, and streamline the pages I look at a la AdBlock Plus. And, of course, until it stabilizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Fire Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Well i am for anything the helps people not to use IE, I just just hope is does not bring to many more issues for css and javascript that i already have to deal with IE, Safari, and Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 It uses the same rendering engine as Safari, so I think you're safe there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zane Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 this is the coolest thing I've read all day. I always wondered when Google would make a browser...now I have my answer.... Tomorrow...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 So, everything I've read cites http://gears.google.com/chrome as the official download/information point (besides the Google blog, of course), and that link still kicks back to their home page. I can only hope that it is just a redirect until they're ready to launch the full download. I've been keeping my eye on this, and I'm very interested to get some "hands on" time with some of the functionality and integration with Gears and other Google tools. Definitely looks like a new dev toy to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 According to slashdot the url is supposed to be http://www.google.com/chrome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 And, naturally, they don't have the linux version ready... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 According to slashdot the url is supposed to be http://www.google.com/chrome Which gets a full out 404 error ... heh. I guess we'll just have to wait for the official launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Chrome I head was on the news this morning, I didn't watch it, but maybe they gave a time when it was supposed to launch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Chrome I head was on the news this morning, I didn't watch it, but maybe they gave a time when it was supposed to launch? "Tomorrow" relatively to 9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM (dunno what timezone). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 2:10:00 PM Pacific time, since that is where they are located... would be my guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Posted using Google Chrome (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Seriously... this thing is fast! It's just slightly annoying that I cannot change the language once I've installed Chrome. I got the Danish version installed, but I'd rather use the English one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 ... I'm getting an undefined JavaScript method call on their install page, so it won't let me download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 That's strange. Have you tried in another browser. It worked fine for me in FF3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Me 2 It feels like IE interface, just a different style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Screenshots for those who cannot use it yet: http://daniel0.net/google_chrome/ Edit: I put the ChromeSetup.exe file in that folder as well so people who get the same errors as obsidian can try it out as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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