Google plans a Web-browser, and it's Open-Source!

[Sylvanas]

Google Blog

Awesome . Everything Google has made I liked, lets hope this is the same- but I still cannot see myself letting go of Firefox anytime soon or how anyone can drastically improve upon it...we shall see.

EDIT: Download link added

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It's pretty cool how its a seperate thread per tab.

 

[Turkish]

Cool, can't wait. I am growing sick of Firefox. Its like the better of two horrible browsers (IE vs. MF). I'll have to chose between Opera and Chrome.

 

[jjones]

Oh good, another browser to code for.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
It's pretty cool how its a seperate thread per tab.

Yup, not to mention a separate process.

Check out http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/, it describes many new features.

 

[NeoV]

sign me up

hail our google overlords

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I hope it uses web standards.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Competition is good, would like to see a Google linux distro as well

 

[Snapster]

Considering Google practically fund Mozilla, we could see it die off.....

One day, everyone will be hating Google as much as they hated Microsoft, Sony, etc etc etc

 

[Ausm]

Can you download it yet?

 

[Snapster]

http://www.google.com/chrome

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Snapster
http://www.google.com/chrome

w00t thx!

 

[tw1164]

mmmm....pr0n mode browsing

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: Snapster
Considering Google practically fund Mozilla, we could see it die off.....

One day, everyone will be hating Google as much as they hated Microsoft, Sony, etc etc etc

Google has a contract to keep paying Mozilla until 2011 and who know what will happen by then.

 

[Ausm]

Wow it's pretty fast, I'm impressed so far.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: Snapster
Considering Google practically fund Mozilla, we could see it die off.....

One day, everyone will be hating Google as much as they hated Microsoft, Sony, etc etc etc

Google has a contract to keep paying Mozilla until 2011 and who know what will happen by then.

Only renewed recently, and you are right in saying who knows what will happen. They could even buy them out completely, or even negate the contract.

 

[mzkhadir]

Install it from here : http://www.google.com/chrome/

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
Install it from here : http://www.google.com/chrome/

Gee, I wonder what link is about 5 posts up....

 

[SunnyD]

Using it right now... seems a little sluggish.

 

[Scouzer]

Yeah it's not the fastest... it seems nice though. I like how it imports everything from FF, including saved passwords.

 

[Gamingphreek]

For those of you who say it is pretty slugglish - what exactly are you doing. It is performing very fast for me. Page rendering and everything.

I just managed to get it through the Acid 3 test - only got a 61, but that isn't bad for Beta 1 of a Web-Browser on its first day of availability. IE8 Beta 2 only pulled like 17 or so for me!

So far I am very impressed. It does however like resources. It seems to have 3 instances open at any one time regardless of the number of tabs and what not. About 16-20MB each for the first 2 and only a few KB's for the last one.

All in all I am impressed with it and intend to use it as default browser for a while!

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Using it right now... seems a little sluggish.

Smokes on my system with 10 tabs open uses less resources the FF 3.0 in Vista.

 

[Barryj61]

Checking it out now - performance seems pretty snappy to me, and the Firefox import worked flawlessly

How it renders pages varies wildly, however. Some of my other forums render normally (same as in Firefox), some are slightly different - and a couple are just plain awful

Unfortunately, one of the awful ones is Ebay - fonts so tiny that they're nearly unreadable, and I haven't found any tweak yet that will fix it. (the tools menu is pretty limited so far).

Even today, that's a pretty fatal one to get wrong - so I don't think they were really ready for beta mode yet. I'll check back in a few weeks; I like the concept, but it looks like they jumped the gun a bit releasing it.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

just installed it. i like it so far.

 

[Skott]

One feature it supposedly has is if a web page in a tab crashes you dont have to close the whole program. Just the one tab. Can anyone confirm this? If its true MS is so gonna be mad about this latest advancement in the browser wars. Actually it'd be a new start in browser wars. I'm going to wait a few days and see what people experience before I download it and try it.