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Google to Launch Webkit Based Web Browser Called 'Chrome'
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ZombiePete
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That's my initial impression in Windows XP as well. The application shortcut also works well; I've made a shortcut on my desktop to MobileMe and it's pretty slick. Makes MobileMe's mission to seem more like an app than a webpage more feasible to me.
MobileMe has always seemed a bit sluggish to me using Firefox, and it definitely seems speedier in Chrome.
One minor irritant (very minor) is it's color palate. Too bright.
Can't wait to try this out in Linux.
Chrome - IE REPLACEMENT!
Wow, as soon as I see Google Chrome interface and its sleek compact interface, Im sold. This will definitely pressure Firefox developers though and definitely beat IE in both function and looks🙂.
Okay for those non-windows mac users, here is some brief review. Google certainly make the browser look good with all those blue and light blue theme. The browser window changes when minimized and maximized.
In Minimized mode there is some top gap(or padding for those web developers) between the tab and the top of the browser window. In maximized mode, the top gap is gone, hence further increase the screen space.
Chrome full screen:
The screen space in Chrome is huge, as big as Safari unless you set it to show bookmarks, here is a picture 😀
Safari, Chrome - Without Bookmark.
Safari, Chrome - With Bookmark (Chrome loses to Safari cause there is an extra gap in Chrome)
Bookmarking in Chrome is the same as FF3, where a user just need to press the star button before the address bar.
Some might wonder how about the status bar? Chrome doesn't have any, instead they use a totally new concept that is not seen in any browser so far.
Chrome Status Bar (look at the bottom right)
So my initial expression about the looks of Chrome is definitely refreshing, it looks and feels good, now I wonder how the OSX version will look like. I don't think I will change my default web browser though, for Windows most likely but for Mac, I don't think so.
I will test the speed of the browsers soon, but I got no idea how should I conduct the test, anyone care to give suggestions? And if you want me to compare any other browsers side by side or want pictures of certain browser functions, do tell me 🙂
Wow, as soon as I see Google Chrome interface and its sleek compact interface, Im sold. This will definitely pressure Firefox developers though and definitely beat IE in both function and looks🙂.
Okay for those non-windows mac users, here is some brief review. Google certainly make the browser look good with all those blue and light blue theme. The browser window changes when minimized and maximized.
In Minimized mode there is some top gap(or padding for those web developers) between the tab and the top of the browser window. In maximized mode, the top gap is gone, hence further increase the screen space.
Chrome full screen:
The screen space in Chrome is huge, as big as Safari unless you set it to show bookmarks, here is a picture 😀
Safari, Chrome - Without Bookmark.
Safari, Chrome - With Bookmark (Chrome loses to Safari cause there is an extra gap in Chrome)
Bookmarking in Chrome is the same as FF3, where a user just need to press the star button before the address bar.
Some might wonder how about the status bar? Chrome doesn't have any, instead they use a totally new concept that is not seen in any browser so far.
Chrome Status Bar (look at the bottom right)
So my initial expression about the looks of Chrome is definitely refreshing, it looks and feels good, now I wonder how the OSX version will look like. I don't think I will change my default web browser though, for Windows most likely but for Mac, I don't think so.
I will test the speed of the browsers soon, but I got no idea how should I conduct the test, anyone care to give suggestions? And if you want me to compare any other browsers side by side or want pictures of certain browser functions, do tell me 🙂
ksgant
macrumors 6502a
Google Chrome...Safari Killer?
I Love Safari! its absolutely brilliant and i can't imagine using any other web brower, regardless of what people think of it crashing or design etc..i still think its the worlds best! but google chrome seems so new and powerful...will you switch?😉
Safari 4 btw...is ALOT snappier🙂 and supports custom web applications!😀
I Love Safari! its absolutely brilliant and i can't imagine using any other web brower, regardless of what people think of it crashing or design etc..i still think its the worlds best! but google chrome seems so new and powerful...will you switch?😉
Safari 4 btw...is ALOT snappier🙂 and supports custom web applications!😀
GGJstudios
macrumors Westmere
Just been playing around with it under Vista. It is very fast. I just read through the comic and wow, there is some awesome stuff under the hood with Chrome. It'll be interesting to see how this develops.
This is not a new browser ...
This isn't about building a new browser, this is about building a new platform for better web apps that can compete with standalone applications.
Ask yourself, what are some of the issues with writing large scale ajax like web apps today? (a) Reliability - A web browser crash is not good for a web app. (b) Isolation - One web app should not interfere with another (c) Efficient Javascript - Javascript is the basis for dynamic web pages (d) Better support for foundation frameworks for building web apps - aka google gears ...
This is a well thought out head on attack on the likes of Microsoft. Google doesn't own Firefox and probably could not push the larger 'platform' changes they wanted into Firefox. Firefox is a marketing platform for Google, this is something much more. And if this succeeds, guess who is going to be in the driving seat -- even if there are no Google ad specific hooks in the product? And who cares if the pieces are open source and usable by other products? The goal isn't building a browser, its building a platform that plays to Google's strengths.
Now the next step would be to take on Flash and Silverlight. Flash is everywhere but sucks for performance.. Silverlight, well, is "not open source". So Google, when are we seeing a Javascript based alternative that can be used as a foundation engine for dynamic content that includes interactive animation and video?
This isn't about building a new browser, this is about building a new platform for better web apps that can compete with standalone applications.
Ask yourself, what are some of the issues with writing large scale ajax like web apps today? (a) Reliability - A web browser crash is not good for a web app. (b) Isolation - One web app should not interfere with another (c) Efficient Javascript - Javascript is the basis for dynamic web pages (d) Better support for foundation frameworks for building web apps - aka google gears ...
This is a well thought out head on attack on the likes of Microsoft. Google doesn't own Firefox and probably could not push the larger 'platform' changes they wanted into Firefox. Firefox is a marketing platform for Google, this is something much more. And if this succeeds, guess who is going to be in the driving seat -- even if there are no Google ad specific hooks in the product? And who cares if the pieces are open source and usable by other products? The goal isn't building a browser, its building a platform that plays to Google's strengths.
Now the next step would be to take on Flash and Silverlight. Flash is everywhere but sucks for performance.. Silverlight, well, is "not open source". So Google, when are we seeing a Javascript based alternative that can be used as a foundation engine for dynamic content that includes interactive animation and video?
ChicoWeb
macrumors 65816
Google Chrome - How Say You?
I must admit... Google Chrome seems to be a very quick, responsive browser so far. Of course I had to track down one of the remaining PC's in the office to use it with XP, but at first glance I like. I thought it was going to hose all of my sites, and things where going to look bad, but I was wrong thus far. I was dreading adding another browser to the QA list, but hopefully it's going to go right along with Firefox. I tested about 10 or so of our sites, all seem to work perfectly.
Anyone else used it yet?
Add it to the list for testing 🙄
I must admit... Google Chrome seems to be a very quick, responsive browser so far. Of course I had to track down one of the remaining PC's in the office to use it with XP, but at first glance I like. I thought it was going to hose all of my sites, and things where going to look bad, but I was wrong thus far. I was dreading adding another browser to the QA list, but hopefully it's going to go right along with Firefox. I tested about 10 or so of our sites, all seem to work perfectly.
Anyone else used it yet?
Add it to the list for testing 🙄
- Google Chrome - PC
- IE 6 - PC
- IE 7 - PC
- IE8 - PC
- FF2 - PC
- FF3 - PC
- FF2 - OS X
- FF3 - OS X
- Safari 2 - OS X
- Safari 3 - OS X
- iPhone - OS X
thejadedmonkey
macrumors G3
Works fine with all my sites. I assume that since it's based off of webkit, testing in Safari or Chrome is about the same... but *sigh* you're quite right, add another browser to the list... IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, FF2, FF3, Sarafi 2, 3, 4...
ChicoWeb
macrumors 65816
I've noticed some things that differ from FF to Safari. Mostly the forms, buttons, and labels...But still
clevin
macrumors G3
i managed to run sunspider on it, and to my surprise, its only about 1.4x faster than firefox 3, which makes it about the same, or even slower than firefox 3.1's tracemonkey, or safari 4's squirrelFish.
so my question
1. its not really abut standard, since it didn't use anything new in neither webkit or gecko of past several month
2. its not especially fast as far as Javascript is concerned.
why?
Its indeed very smooth in operation, and extremely light as far as system resource is concerned.
It doesn't bundle with google service, AFAIK.
It has very simple UI and basic functions.
can this benefits all from multi-threading? if so, then I would be very interested in mozilla's plan for firefox 4.
But i have a feeling its not all about that. there are more reason behind it, I think is probably the simple functions of the browser.
I don't agree its a platform, it just provide little as far as a platform is concerned.
It feel like a even simpler version of safari. it sometimes severely lack some common functions.
My brief verdict is
Its a good browser, and simply a browser, not a platform.
It won't replace any other browsers, except maybe safari, it just has so many common stuff as safari, while lack of features in firefox, opera, or even IE8.
of course, since its for windows, its good windows users finally can see what safari could, should have been.
so my question
1. its not really abut standard, since it didn't use anything new in neither webkit or gecko of past several month
2. its not especially fast as far as Javascript is concerned.
why?
Its indeed very smooth in operation, and extremely light as far as system resource is concerned.
It doesn't bundle with google service, AFAIK.
It has very simple UI and basic functions.
can this benefits all from multi-threading? if so, then I would be very interested in mozilla's plan for firefox 4.
But i have a feeling its not all about that. there are more reason behind it, I think is probably the simple functions of the browser.
I don't agree its a platform, it just provide little as far as a platform is concerned.
It feel like a even simpler version of safari. it sometimes severely lack some common functions.
My brief verdict is
Its a good browser, and simply a browser, not a platform.
It won't replace any other browsers, except maybe safari, it just has so many common stuff as safari, while lack of features in firefox, opera, or even IE8.
of course, since its for windows, its good windows users finally can see what safari could, should have been.
First impressions of Chrome:
1) Definitely better than Safari for Windows. Big mistake Apple.
2) Lightning fast!
3) Nice interface.
4) Works well with many websites that Safari crashes.
5) Overall my 2nd favorite browser to Firefox on Windows, but with a few upgrades could surpass Firefox.
Safari is pretty much dead.
1) Definitely better than Safari for Windows. Big mistake Apple.
2) Lightning fast!
3) Nice interface.
4) Works well with many websites that Safari crashes.
5) Overall my 2nd favorite browser to Firefox on Windows, but with a few upgrades could surpass Firefox.
Safari is pretty much dead.
Chris Rogers
macrumors 6502a
Chrome blows aways Safari, IE and Mozilla in Javascript performance
Chrome has blown away the competition in Javascript performance test.
Look at the performance numbers and graphs at
http://monitor20.blogspot.com/2008/09/chrome-blows-aways-safari-ie-and.html
Chrome has blown away the competition in Javascript performance test.
Look at the performance numbers and graphs at
http://monitor20.blogspot.com/2008/09/chrome-blows-aways-safari-ie-and.html
clevin
macrumors G3
im not sure it works that way, using google's own js test to bragging their own products.
If you run sunspider, you can see indeed, chrome is VERY fast on SOME of the categories, but the whole pictures is not remotely as impressive as that plot wants you to believe.
Maybe google targeted specific items to optimize chrome against their own data base of popular website and most used js functions. thats good, I have no problem with that approach. But even that, I doubt the difference would be that huge.
Still waiting for an ad blocking plug-in for Google Chrome... A No Script (Javascript manager) and a flash blocker, and a cookie manager would also be very nice. And the ability to clear cookies on exit.
But I'm still impressed. If no ad-blocking plugin is released (3rd party or not) I'm staying with Firefox.
But I'm still impressed. If no ad-blocking plugin is released (3rd party or not) I'm staying with Firefox.
Me1000
macrumors 68000
I only played with it for a little bit on a PC, but I shall play with it more on OS X, whenever that comes out.
I read that it doesnt even pass the ACID2 test, let alone the ACID3. 🙁
'tis webkit... What have they changed that prevents it from passing? If it is using the latest webkit builds it should be scoring 100% on ACID3.
I read that it doesnt even pass the ACID2 test, let alone the ACID3. 🙁
'tis webkit... What have they changed that prevents it from passing? If it is using the latest webkit builds it should be scoring 100% on ACID3.
Borg
Original Borg: IBM
Old Borg: Microsoft
New Borg: Google
Steve better remember the past before he relives it.
Original Borg: IBM
Old Borg: Microsoft
New Borg: Google
Steve better remember the past before he relives it.