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Google to Launch Webkit Based Web Browser Called 'Chrome'

PowerFullMac said:
What I am saying is as most people use PCs, and the average non-geek Windoze user will use whatever browser comes with their computer, which is IE.

So, websites will be tested with IE, as its very popular.
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That still has no effect on IE's standards support, which, while better than IE6, is still *****. All you end up with is a bunch of non-standards-compliant websites botched to work properly on IE - which is just about the worst possible scenario.

MS should do us all a favour and just use Gecko or WebKit for IE and be done with it.
 
fpr me at work surpasses firefox for memory usage

better than safari by far i find safari very slow on mac, im hoping google browser for mac is out soon.

if you ever used Firefox On Linux = its that fast!
 
I am loving this browser! Sooo fast. Using it right now. Missing quick access to my Google Bookmarks (you'd think they'd integrate those from day 1), but it's not like they're more than a click or two away.

It's snappier than Safari :D

I'm not convinced that it'll catch on with the masses. Their own IM (Google Talk) certainly didn't. For geeks though, at least those who aren't paranoid/cynical about Google (Slashdotters etc), it's going to be a big hit as a Firefox killer.

They couldn't have made the interface more perfect if they'd tried, either. It's different and yet still fits in with both the XP and Vista visual styles, and clean = good.

Bring on the Mac version.

Edit: Here's a spot of conspiracy theory debunking:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/
 
angelwatt said:
[*]The UI I hate. It totally ignored basic UI principles for Windows. I mean where the hell is the menu?
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Zune, the lastest version of Office and IE 7 (optionally) don't have menus either. They are made by Microsoft. I don't know if I like this trend, but it would be unfair to single Google out.
 
clevin said:
My brief verdict is

Its a good browser, and simply a browser, not a platform.
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:rolleyes:

You've missed the whole point of Chrome - it IS a platform, it's been designed as a fast, efficient and secure platform for running web apps, i.e. Javascript apps. Go and read the comic.
 
elppa said:
Zune, the lastest version of Office and IE 7 (optionally) don't have menus either. They are made by Microsoft. I don't know if I like this trend, but it would be unfair to single Google out.
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All the new MS Apps seem to be going this route of leaving menu bar out.

As a user, Chrome pretty much is a go for me. I don't get one bloated process eating up 100MB+++ of RAM after a few hours. It's faster than both FF and IE. Not a regular user of addon, so not considering that area.

Been using chrome the whole day, apart from some weird full flash site errors, everything is still fine.

As a developer, I'm still sitting on the fence. Not sure how popular this browser will get or how much it will improve once out of Beta. And without web developer toolbar or Firebug, not really going to use it to debug sites interface
 
What the hell are you talking about?
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He is basically referring to Apple past competitors and ally. Jobs when he was young (dont know about now) always hated IBM, he considers IBM as the computer Pentagon and blah blah blah. Then come B.Gates which keep stressing that computer need their program and such. B.Gates finally get into Apple and Jobs made a mistake by bringing in B.Gates too much into Apple development that cause B.Gates to create his own OS and thus as some people will say, B.Gates BS Jobs but hey this is business, you must be careful with who you trust and who not to put your trust into (sad isn't it).

So lets look at the present, Apple has good relation with Google, what happen if history repeats it self? Apple will of course have a better standing this time but how much will it effect them remains a mystery and I wonder what is Google master plan.

Yeah, I've tested Chrome loading time and it blows away all the competitor browser opening speed. I wonder how Google managed to make their App open blazing fast. I wont use Chrome for my daily activities though cause of the EULA.
 
Have you guys read the EULA? It says the following:
"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."
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Until this is gone, I won't be using Google Chrome. I don't need big brother Google claiming everything I do on the web is theirs. :mad:
 
So what DOES get sent to Google.com?

website addresses? forum posts? transactions?

I need to know exactly what the privacy concerns are before downloading.
 
elppa said:
Zune, the lastest version of Office and IE 7 (optionally) don't have menus either. They are made by Microsoft. I don't know if I like this trend, but it would be unfair to single Google out.
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Well the thread is about about Google Chrome, not Microsoft applications so I didn't leave it out, it was simply irrelevant. I also haven't used any of the products you mentioned except IE7, which I use with menus.
 
Clayne said:
I saw that. It doesn't really address what I'm saying.

Unless they're saying that those are the absolute only conditions under which Google.com gets information.
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I don't understand the paranoia. If you're looking up how to build nukes then fine, otherwise just get on with it and try it. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, I'm okay with trying it, but I'm not comfortable with it as my main browser unless I can retain privacy (as much as possible on the interweb).
 
I am running Chrome on my Windows PC at work and it's the fastest browser (launching and rendering) that I've tried!

It will be hard for me to stop using Firefox because of Foxmarks, Flashgot, Piclens and all the other cool add-ons available but I'll install it on my iMac as soon as the Mac version is available. It's the perfect browser for opening up a link as fast as you can. It's that fast!

And Google has already said that they'll be building a Mac and Linux version from the ground-up, Chrome Mac and Chrome Linux will not be a Chrome Windows port! Just to clear that up :)

And I can't seem to understand the constant wave of negativity towards anything "not 100% Apple" that I've been seeing here lately. I know this is primarily a Mac users forum but we (for the most part) are adults who should at least try something before saying it's horrible and think for ourselves. In fact, that's one of the main reasons why a lot of people are still stuck in Windows-land, they automatically refuse to use anything different. Where's the "think different" motto around here lately?
 
I've been trying it on Windows and it is quite a nice browser, feels a lot faster/more-responsive than FireFox or Safari for Windows. But I still find Safari on OS X to be better.

I think Google's Chrome needs more options, for example, the ability to open all tabs as "Incognito" (privacy-enabled) by default, rather than having to choose the option all the time, or have session data destroyed automatically on quit or something.

Other than that, it seems fine, nothing really that revolutionary, but a good option for Windows web-browsing.
 
objc said:
I did the Sun Spider test with Firefox 3.1a2. Here's what I got:
Total: 6339.0ms +/- 4.8%

Then I ran it in Chrome b1:
Total: 3613.0ms +/- 4.7%

So it's about 1.75 times as fast. I think as the VM is optimized it will get faster. This is just an initial release.
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tracemonkey is prefed off in firefox nightly build. you need to open it first by toggle 'jit' related values in about:config. it will be about twice as fast as current speed.

for all other we quoted my brief review. i appreciated. stay tuned for my detailed review later !!! :D
 
with this, google''s numerous apps and android, i can seriously see a google desktop OS as inevitable eventually. maybe it'll be like linux?
 
OS X Dude said:
with this, google''s numerous apps and android, i can seriously see a google desktop OS as inevitable eventually. maybe it'll be like linux?
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not sure, google doesn't seem to have high quality products on linux side. Sure I would like one.
 
clevin said:
not sure, google doesn't seem to have high quality products on linux side. Sure I would like one.
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well i mean google's own free open source OS (assuming thats what it'd be) would be like linux but not as in-depth (no terminal etc) for ease of use.
 
clevin said:
tracemonkey is prefed off in firefox nightly build. you need to open it first by toggle 'jit' related values in about:config. it will be about twice as fast as current speed.
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except when I do that I get unresponsive script at "date-format-tofte" so I had to actually disable it to complete the test.
 
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