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Well, someone has to start this:). I'm just amazed no-one has posted ANYTHING about Chrome yet! Out TODAY

Not one of the 'you should be using Firefox/Linux/etc/etc/' broadsiders has piped up:confused:

Someone must have some gossip/rumours/'useful advice'?

This from Google's B**g


A fresh take on the browser

9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available -- you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.

This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. We'll post an update here as soon as it's ready.

*Update @ 3:30 PM: We've added a link to our comic book explaining Google Chrome.

Posted by Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management, and Linus Upson, Engineering Director

I'm really excited about this browser, I've yet to come across a product I hate from google.

If it's up to the same standard as Picasa and Google Earth it should prove popular.

Launch scheduled for tonight UK time

Only for windows today though. Mac later apparently.

Err.... why would a raincoat need a browser...?:)

I'll get my coat! :rolleyes:

Give us a chance, it's not even out yet!

It's just a browser. They're all just browsers. Most websites work in most browsers most of the time. It's nice to have an alternative, but it'S still just a page rendering device. It's not going to change anyone's world.

Another browser will keep the others on their toes, that's for sure. However, I'm curious if the Google browser will compromise the users privacy in any way, as some of their products to date have been a little bit too penetrative than is necessarily healthy. Agreed that GEarth is pretty good for a free app.


Regards


SHJ

Chrome now installed and being used to view pprune :ooh:

More later.


Oooh, there's an incognito mode where pages that you view won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Now what can I go in search of?

Talking of searching, I cannot get google toolbar running with chrome :ugh:

B****r

I suppose lots of people are going to start using this, so yet another browser to test everything in. Just how much is the cost of this to the world's economy??

Hmm, can't get flash player to work at all through chrome ::hmm: I've no access to streaming video at all so I guess it's back to IE7 for the time being.

Do we know this to be true - or is some record kept somewhere, or worse, sent somewhere. Or am I just paranoid.

A little paranoia is a good thing!

Google already keep your search requests and have access to all your emails if you use gmail. Using their browser just adds to the information they can hold on you.

Firefox will delete all your cookies and search history if you require it when you close it down.

And don't forget that your ISP can use deep packet inspection to have the complete picture of your surfing habits. There isn't a great deal of privacy on the internet any more.

Chrome loaded earlier this evening just out of curiosity, so this is my first ever Chrome post. :ok:

So, I now use IE7 and Firefox 3.0.1 on work laptop plus IE8 beta, Firefox 3.0.1, and now Chrome on home PC. Just hope one of them rises above the rest to simplify life ;)

Sadly it does not work around the sites that 'need' IE.

However, installation quick, easy and efficient.

Now I can hide my 'history', back to 'EweBook'..................:)

I tried it, but the text input box did some very strange things. Basically, backspacing and editing resulted in random stuff on the screen - or even blank bits. What appeared on my screen wasn't what I got when I pressed "submit".

It said it would import my settings from Firefox. It did that, but from Firefox 1, presumably somewhere in an archive. I use Firefox 3, but still have FF2 on the machine (just in case). The settings weren't even the FF2 ones.

It decided the default location for file downloads should be my Word documents folder. I've never done that, so where that idea came from, I dunno. I have a perfectly good "Internet Downloads" folder.

I'm back to Firefox until they come out with Chrome Final Release.

I use FF3 and Chrome imported all the settings. Runs smoothly and seems ok so far. Even the dictionary and spell checker I have on FF3 works in Chrome. Or at least it highlights the spelling mistakes I've made so far while writing this post.....

installed this morning (kept FF as preferred browser for the time being, though).

Has a few nice features to it, such as a new tab opening up next to the one that you are in and not all the way on the right.

@Bo Nalls
Flash does not seem to be a problem, however