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Google Chrome Coming in June
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Chrome isn't a browser - it's an HTTP-based windowing system for the Google OS. Why do you think every tab is a process?
Google is heading into the same territory that Microsoft tried to chart with IE, but is probably more likely to succeed as there is very little likelihood of being charged with antitrust practises.
Chrome isn't competing with FireFox, it's competing with Cocoa and the Windows APIs.
Chrome isn't a browser - it's an HTTP-based windowing system for the Google OS. Why do you think every tab is a process?
Google is heading into the same territory that Microsoft tried to chart with IE, but is probably more likely to succeed as there is very little likelihood of being charged with antitrust practises.
Chrome isn't competing with FireFox, it's competing with Cocoa and the Windows APIs.
I'm quite sure they planned to release it for win/mac/linux right from the start. It's just that they put more resources on getting it out for Windows first since it has the largest user base.
themoonisdown09
macrumors 601
johnmcboston
macrumors 6502
Having every tab be a process would prevent my browser (safari or ff) from locking up because one page is having problems...
Warbrain
macrumors 603
Good, it'll be out. But I won't use it. The UI is abhorrent in Windows and I hate how it has that silly start page of your most visited pages.
Or overwhelm your computer because of massive memory leaks. I hate the concept of each tab being a process.
Or overwhelm your computer because of massive memory leaks. I hate the concept of each tab being a process.
themoonisdown09
macrumors 601
I think one of my favorite features in Google Chrome is the start page. I usually visit the same 5 or 6 websites every day.
I also think (and hope) that the user interface for the Mac will be much different than in Windows.
I've been running Google Chrome on my crappy Windows PC since the day it was released and I've had no problems with memory leaks (that I know of). I usually have at least 3 tabs open at once. I actually think that Google Chrome is much faster than the other browsers that I've used on that computer.
AidenShaw
macrumors P6
Ten threads leaking memory would have the same effect as ten processes leaking memory....
(...until about 4 GiB has leaked - if they're 32-bit processes the threaded model would die. The ten processes could continue to 40 GiB of leakage 😉 )
I hope Chrome dies
As a web designer/programmer, the last thing I want in my life is another web browser to worry about. It's hard enough making sites look the same in IE and Firefox. Since Apple updated Safari to 3.0 it renders pages very similarly to Firefox...thank goodness.
As a web designer/programmer, the last thing I want in my life is another web browser to worry about. It's hard enough making sites look the same in IE and Firefox. Since Apple updated Safari to 3.0 it renders pages very similarly to Firefox...thank goodness.
I don't love Firefox as a basic browser, but some of the add-ons have made it indispensable for me (zotero, outwit hub, foxmarks, etc.).
I do like Google Chrome in VMWare Fusion, but if it doesn't have Zotero I just won't be able to use it.
I do like Google Chrome in VMWare Fusion, but if it doesn't have Zotero I just won't be able to use it.
~Shard~
macrumors P6
This is good news that a Mac version will finally be coming, but it would have been nice to see it sooner. Regardless, I'm not sure if I'll give it a try or not - I use Safari and Firefox, and don't have a great desire to try Chrome as I'm not sure what significant advantages it would provide me, but we'll see....
powers74
macrumors 68000
It is pretty creepy to go to street view and see your car sitting in your driveway. Online. Taken by someone you don't know.
I think they left out a sentence: And Google will now be able to track your every mouse click."
It is creepy as hell when someone takes a picture of your house and your car is sitting in your driveway. I mean, they might figure out ... that you live there.
Iamtherealwoody
macrumors 6502
So true. Everyone thinks webkit is all Apple, but its on KHTML from KDE. Granted some really good changes have occurred since Apple took on webkit, it's still from a Linux based open source project. Apple needs to give back to the community.
Virgil-TB2
macrumors 65816
The majority of the good work done on WebKit was done by Apple, and how does Apple giving WebKit and all their improvements back to the community on a regular basis not qualify as Apple "giving back."
If anyone is going nuts on WebKit stuff without "giving anything back to the community," it's Google.
If not for Apple's work on WebKit and giving it back to the community, Chrome and Android wouldn't be half of what they are.
Also, just because so many have it wrong ... the reason Chrome came out for Windows first and was developed on Windows first is that it was a tiny project by one guy and some friends. They didn't make an official decision to develop such a browser in the boardroom, they merely threw it out there as a tech demo after it seemed like a good idea. They are literally making this stuff up as they go along.
I have no idea why people think this is a good browser, possibly just because of the brand recognition, but due to it's excessive popularity (which actually took Google a bit off guard) they are going to make one for Mac now. If all the dummies out there weren't drooling over it, they might never have got off the ground with it. If people reacted to products like this in a rational way instead of getting all rabid about how Google will "smack down" Safari or some such, it probably would be as popular as Opera, which is to say a niche product of limited acceptance.
God help me, I do not want another browser to test on, with its own quirks and problems. Google, just throw money at Firefox or sabotage IE, please.
~Shard~
macrumors P6
Haha, I'd be fine with either of those options. 😀 How is it that people still use IE anyway?
I keep hearing this argument. A web developer doesn't test browsers, they test rendering engines. The more browsers that come out based on good rendering engines (Webkit, KHTML, Gecko, Presto) the better, assuming they are eating away at the Trident engine (IE).
Any employed web developer needs to test on these rendering engines:
Trident 6.0 (IE6)
Trident 7.0 (IE7)
Trident 8.0 (IE8) - soon at least
Webkit latest (Safari/Webkit/Chrome)
Gecko latest (Firefox 3)
Presto (Opera)
So, you have 6 engines to test. 3 of those come from Microsoft, and 0 come from Google.
Even Google has said "just test on Safari". They consider any difference in rendering between Chrome and Safari to be a bug.
Google is doing us a huge favor by eating away at IE6 by officially not supporting it in their onlline apps.