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Google to Launch Webkit Based Web Browser Called 'Chrome'

charlituna said:
yeah I read it. even with all the "don't we sound impressive" tech talk bloat in the first 17 pages.

it's a good thing that comic was sent to a limited audience cause most folks wouldn't understand half of it. all they care about is if it works. and how.

and in the how is a lot of stuff that ain't nothing new.

about the only groovy new tricks they have done are the nine pages trick and putting the history lookup in their 'omnibox'. and we'll see how well those work in the end.

i give them points cause they are right about one thing. being a search engine company they have the means to find and test on tons of sites before we ever see the program. and that will likely help with debugging. but I reserve judgement until I can test the program myself and compare it to the others out there
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I guess you missed the pages where they talk about treating each tab as a separate process. Which is new and very impressive and something you will see in browsers of the future. They also bring in interesting features of their Javascript engine which will compete with squirllfish and tracemonkey and has features that may well feed into them. And if you think the history lookup thing is new then you are actually wrong. Check out opera and firefox.
 
I'm getting an error in trying to build the Mac version, if anyone's familiar with Xcode.

Code: 
make: *** [V8Attr.h] Error 2
Command /bin/sh failed with exit code 2

Any ideas?

jW
 
Yep, was using the step-by-step, but as I said, it got stuck trying to build (already finished the longest part, downloading the actual project). I'm looking for someone who actually knows what the error means or at least might indicate to help me sort it out.

jW
 
Mal said:
Yep, was using the step-by-step, but as I said, it got stuck trying to build (already finished the longest part, downloading the actual project). I'm looking for someone who actually knows what the error means or at least might indicate to help me sort it out.

jW
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Well I can't help you with that but we could make a group and start reading through the sources and see if we can figure it out. In any case let me know any of your progress I am also very excited about Google Chrome!

Cheers.
 
TheBobGoat said:
*snip* things like this browser are what will enable google to charge even more to advertisers than they already do. *snip*
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Well, regardless of Google's intentions, companies definitely like the idea of more targeted advertisements. And Google's money is mostly made from their 'Adwords' search advertising, which works essentially as an auction on different keywords so in fact "the market" actually sets the prices.

Don't get me wrong though, Google is not a messiah -- they a for-profit business, not a philanthropy organization trying to save the world.
 
bobertoq said:
I found a chart of IE market share from 1994 - 2008.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Internet-explorer-usage-data.svg

I wonder how Chrome will affect IE's market share.
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Probably not much unless it's well marketed. Firefox has been better than IE for a long long time, yet it still has no where near the market share. Simply because most users will just use what ships with their computers. It would be nice if Google could gain the influence to pressure computer makers to ship Chrome with their computers.
 
tuffluffjimmy said:
Probably not much unless it's well marketed. Firefox has been better than IE for a long long time, yet it still has no where near the market share. Simply because most users will just use what ships with their computers. It would be nice if Google could gain the influence to pressure computer makers to ship Chrome with their computers.
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True, but this is Google, think about this: Google has a link to the Chrome page on the main site (www.google.com/www.google.co.uk etc.). Now think about how many people visit that page everyday, how many people have it as their homepage... Thats a helleva lota marketing. Also, remember Google has piles of money at its disposal, it would easily launch a huge marketing campaign.
 
I am like a moth to a bug light when it comes to Chrome. It is still not working well on one of my Broker's websites but we have other sites we have to use in business and even Mozilla is slow on them [Internet Explorer unusable] but Chrome just SMOKES through their pages. :eek:
 
I am like a moth to a bug light when it comes to Chrome. It is still not working well on one of my Broker's websites but we have other sites we have to use in business and even Mozilla is slow on them [Internet Explorer unusable] but Chrome just SMOKES through their pages.
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Somebody, get the fire extinguisher! :cool:
 
By the way, I found out why I don't like Chrome: whenever the program is running, hard disk activity on my HP Pavilion a6400f goes through the roof. I'm hoping that Google eliminates this and when the native MacOS X version comes out you don't get a lot of hard disk activity, either.
 
I'm pretty heavily biased towards everything mac and I've been using and regularly updating webkit for almost a year... but I'm using Chrome for the first time right now on my vista partition and the performance is mind blowing. I wouldn't say that it's any faster than Webkit or Firefox for normal browsing, but I'm currently using it with Blackboard (anyone in college should know what that is) and Chrome is beating out my other two browsers by a mile. Load times from page to page in Blackboard were 2-3 seconds in Webkit and Firefox... in Chrome, pages are loading as fast as I can click. It will definitely be my choice of browser when I'm using vista.
 
I wonder... I wonder if Google could make an "open source, free" operating system. Or just an OS at all. After thinking about it, Chrome is a lot like an Operating system. Google could make a simple, small, fast, safe and secure OS. I'm just thinking about what they could do.
 
bobertoq said:
I wonder... I wonder if Google could make an "open source, free" operating system. Or just an OS at all. After thinking about it, Chrome is a lot like an Operating system. Google could make a simple, small, fast, safe and secure OS. I'm just thinking about what they could do.
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sure they could. there have been rumors of such even. but there would have to be a compelling reason to write applications for it, support it, and adopt it most of all. which if you look at linux, you see the problem with such a thing.

don't get me wrong, linux is great, but its hindered by low adoption rates for desktop and home usage because people don't like change. heck, look at OS X.. sure its picking up steam at times but still... people are afraid of change and all that.
 
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