Google new browser

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

anyone tried it yet?
http://www.google.com/chrome/

Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Location: Newcastle

*install*

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:54 pm

Pretty cool, only had a little play, looks nice and slim lined. Gonna have a better play with it tonight at home

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

4130warrior wrote:

Pretty cool, only had a little play, looks nice and slim lined. Gonna have a better play with it tonight at home

seems 'quicker'... not sure if it is or not...

Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Location: South Australia

been looking for a new browser

Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Location: Check your six.

Downloaded it at work but it did not function to the standards that Firefox allows.

Deleted it.

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

Cool. I had not heard of this but I am giving it a go in the background.

Google stuff is often rather frustrating. Not half-baked but about 95%-baked. Just unbaked enough to annoy.

But I haven't tried Chrome much yet. It looks like a relative of firefox to me.

Just as an example though, I had google desktop and without warning it chewed up over 6GB of hard drive space for its cache. Deleted it. But it was good in other ways.

Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Location: Newy

4130warrior wrote:

only had a little play, looks nice and slim Gonna have a better play with it tonight at home

and will u also try out the browser? Wink

Joined: 21 May 2004 Location: Brisbane North

Pyrotech wrote:

4130warrior wrote:

only had a little play, looks nice and slim Gonna have a better play with it tonight at home

and will u also try out the browser? Wink

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:08 pm

I never said that!

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

RoadNazi wrote:

Downloaded it at work but it did not function to the standards that Firefox allows..

like? it opens webpages, and has tabs, what else ya need?

Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

It's really, really quick. Brilliantly quick. But until it gets add-ons like FF has (gestures, etc) I won't swap, and particularly till it gets adblock. And I can't see Google cutting their own lunch, so I reckon I'll be using FF for a while longer.

Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Location: Melbourne

needs gestures built in

Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Location: Perth WA.

also imageshack toolbar it needs.

but firefox 3.0 also needs it

Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Location: Central Queensland

So does this mean there is going to be a lot of people chroming legally from now on??

Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Location: South Australia

N*A*M wrote:

needs gestures built in

what is this gestures you speak of.

i recon it's pretty decent so far. loads a little quicker than explorer, and makes my screen look bigger.

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

scroll on mouse doesnt take ya back a page :( few little PITA things.

Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Location: western shitney

bogged wrote:

anyone tried it yet?

no

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne

Yup, seems pretty cool, nice and fast.. some cool features

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

Interesting.

The second browser war

Sep 3rd 2008 | SAN FRANCISCO
From Economist.com
Google’s new web browser is its most direct attack on Microsoft yet

AP

SEVERAL years ago, Silicon Valley was rife with rumours that Google, then primarily a search engine, might be building a new web browser to rival that of Microsoft, called Internet Explorer (IE), or even an operating system to rival Microsoft’s Windows. Google mocked those rumours and they died down. But if Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, is to be believed, the speculation itself made him think that “maybe it’s not a bad idea”. And so this week Google did launch a new browser, called Chrome, that is also, in effect, a new operating system. The rumours, says Mr Brin cheekily, “just happened to migrate from being false to being true.”

Chrome amounts to a declaration of war—albeit a pre-emptive one, in Google’s mind—against Microsoft. So far, Google has been coy about admitting the rivalry (whereas Microsoft’s boss, Steve Ballmer, is obsessed with it). In web search and advertising, Google dominates roughly as Microsoft does in operating systems and office applications. To the extent that Google has challenged Microsoft’s core business at all, it is through its web-based word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. But these, so far, have few users.

Google’s fear has been that Microsoft might use its grip on people’s computers and browsers to tweak the default settings so that Google’s search engine and other services might be disadvantaged. This, after all, is how Microsoft behaved in the 1990s, when it crushed Netscape, an early browser.

Microsoft’s fear, by contrast, has been that computing as a whole might move from the operating system as a platform for applications to the web (or “cloud”). This is why it attacked—also pre-emptively, in its mind—Netscape and landed in antitrust court.

As Google rose to dominate the web during this decade, it therefore invested a lot of energy into a rival web browser to IE, called Firefox. An open-source project (whose code can be altered by anybody), Firefox comes from a foundation, across the street from Google’s offices, that happens to be based on the remnants of the old Netscape. Google’s engineers contribute code to Firefox and pay the foundation a share of advertising when people search Google in the browser’s toolbar. Thus Firefox rose to become the largest browser after IE, with almost 20% of the market.

But Google concluded that even Firefox could not protect it against Microsoft. It began to define its business as “search, ads and apps”, where the apps (applications), with a few exceptions, run on the web and are accessed through a browser. So Google decided to build a browser from scratch, explicitly for those fledgling services, from word processing to snazzy virtual worlds.

Chrome, which it launched with a cheeky comic book instead of a press release, is the result. It is based on tabs, each of which runs independently of the others for security, speed and stability. It even works offline. It is, in short, the scenario that Microsoft has dreaded ever since Netscape. As Arnaud Weber, a Google engineer and one of the characters in the comic book, says in a speech bubble: “We’re applying the same kind of process isolation you find in modern operating systems.” It is a geek’s way of saying that developers and consumers may soon stop caring about the operating system on their own hard drive altogether.

Ingeniously, Chrome itself need not take a lot of market share to fulfil Google’s objectives. Google does not expect to sell or otherwise “monetise” Chrome directly. Like Firefox’s, Chrome’s source code is free for anybody to change and improve, and even for rival browser-makers to incorporate. That could even include Microsoft. As Mr Brin says, “we would consider it a success” if the next version of IE were “built on Chrome, or even if it were just a lot better as a result of Chrome.” Google wants ever more people doing ever more things on the web, and peace of mind that nobody, not even Microsoft, can interrupt that.

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne

another nice thing about chrome...
it uses bugger all ram, firefox would typically suck about 300Mb.. chrome so far is sitting on 15Mb! great for my crud work pc that only has 1gb.

Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Location: Sydney

Chrome actually suck a fair bit of resources, and I'm not sure if it's a smart idea for each tab to have it's own individual thread of processing. Smart idea in theory, but if one thing crashes my Opera browser I can restore the entire session no worries.

The browser looks odd, and I really don't know where I'll see the "amazing" improvements they've been rabitting on about, and how when browsers were developed their was no video chat, online applications & games etc - so Chrome will be all new and great by dealing with these things better.

So far, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 are fantastic together - no need to go elsewhere.

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Location: Melbourne Australia

So far, seat of the pants-wise, it seems quick to me.

I can't say Firefox 3 has knocked my socks off by any means. I am not sure Firefox has improved much since version 1.something. I have found with Firefox 3 I sometimes have to use IE7 for some pages, which is pretty shit.

Currently I have FF3 and Chrome open, and FF3 is using double the memory. I have slightly more FF tabs open though.

We'll see. Competition's always good anyway; they'll all have to work harder.

Joined: 29 May 2003 Location: hidin frm da wiminz!!!

currently i have windows xp which comes with ie... so i use that... it works...

Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Location: Camp Crystal Lake

Downloaded it Last night & had a play, Did not really appeal to me that much? I'll stick with IE as I have never had a problem with it. Not a fan of Firefox either. I will keep playing with Chrome though as I know it is just Beta so things will obviously be better.

Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Location: Check your six.

bogged wrote:

RoadNazi wrote:

Downloaded it at work but it did not function to the standards that Firefox allows..

like? it opens webpages, and has tabs, what else ya need?

Wouldn't open OL so what is the point?

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne

One feature a lot I suspect will like is the "Incognito Window". Which pops up a separate window that whatever you do there doesn't get cached or end up in your history etc.. they say its for banking etc.. but I'm sure most will use it more for hiding pr0n browsing from the Mrs..

And I was wrong about the memory use.. I only looked at one process.. not all of them combined.. still less than FF, but not as good as I thought.

Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Location: Lost in Melbourne.

RoadNazi wrote:

bogged wrote:

RoadNazi wrote:

Downloaded it at work but it did not function to the standards that Firefox allows..

like? it opens webpages, and has tabs, what else ya need?

Wouldn't open OL so what is the point?

Im using it for OL

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:19 am

I don't think much of it right now.

Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Location: Check your six.

bogged wrote:

RoadNazi wrote:

bogged wrote:

RoadNazi wrote:

Downloaded it at work but it did not function to the standards that Firefox allows..

like? it opens webpages, and has tabs, what else ya need?

Wouldn't open OL so what is the point?

Im using it for OL

Funny, work firewall prevents OL on IE, FF will open OL at work, Chrome won't.

That is all.