Google launches a new browser...

[BabyJeffy]

I heard about this yesterday, and you can read about this on the offical google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

So they will be releasing (for Windows) today (apparently)! It's called Google Chrome, and it's fully open source. There is a comic that you can read (linked from the blog) that explains the details... the features and stuff.

Bring on the browser wars (again)! For all of us who do this for a living, this will (hopefully) ensure more work for us all.

Cheers,
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[Ascalonian]

Can you say... amazing? WOW!

 

[vacunita]

Look very cool, and extremely well thought out.

Wonder if it can replace either IE or FF as a major browser in the near future.

Can't wait to take it out for a spin.


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[Ascalonian]

PC World came out with their testing and provided screen shots. The UI look rather basic, but I guess so does GMail... and I love that!

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007645.html

 

[jaxtell]

I'm viewing this page with it now. So far, so good.

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[MarkZK]

Seems fast, I like it so far, not ready to switch from FF just yet though, the UA was a little strange..

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"

from whatsmyuseragent.com

 

[Foamcow]

I'm running it under Parallels on my Macbook with just 750Mb RAM assigned to Parallels.

Installed fast. Runs very fast.
Based on WebKit so no real surprises re: rendering.

Good so far.

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[Ascalonian]

I agree... I am viewing this page right now through Chrome. The only thing that I had to enable was showing the Home button.

But the download took less than 3 seconds on Cable. Installed very fast and imported all of my Firefox settings, including bookmarks, saved passwords, visited links.

Rendering is amazingly as well. Pages load really fast now. I have made this my default until I find a reason not to.

 

[johnwm]

Seems very simple and very quick. Be interesting to see what the actual product looks like, but I'm impressed by the beta.

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[feherke]

Hi

I guess the answer will be no, but I ask it anyway. Does Google Chrome handle gopher protocol ?

Thank you.

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[feherke]

Hi

Found the answer. No.


Feherke.

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[Foamcow]

Does Google Chrome handle gopher protocol

Are you connecting to the internet through rift in space/time?

;-)

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[feherke]

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No. I just strongly believe that the web is about shared information, not shared artwork.

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[Foamcow]

Well I was making a little joke but if you want to be serious...

Does HTTP prevent the sharing of information?

Granted http can be abused, and often is, in such a way as to mess up the information delivery with unnecessary graphics and poorly considered structure but the underlying protocol is not the cause of that. HTTP is just more flexible.
Gopher's rigidity may help structure documents but if done properly HTTP can be just as structural - note the emergence of the 'semantic' web.

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[feherke]

Hi

Does HTTP prevent the sharing of information?

Just encourages the use of purely decorative elements.

HTTP is just more flexible.

Correct. After writing CGI and mole scripts ( then HTTP and Gopher servers ) I can certainly confirm that.

But better we stop here with this.

Feherke.

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[BabyJeffy]

The Google Chrome browser is open source. They say they'll release weekly, too. Whilst you could take the trunk and fork it (to support Gopher, say) it might be more useful to consider becoming a contributor - and see about rolling it into the trunk. Maybe there is the option of building some kind of extension that can do this? Depends on how much time you have on your hands

I'm waiting for either a MacOSX build... or the weekend (so I can try myself).

Cheers,
Jeff

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[Ascalonian]

The only issue I have had with it so far, as funny as it sounds, is with GMail. It stalls with it now and then. But pages that normally took a while to load do so in record time.

The built in Task Manager is nice as well. And the "stats for nerds" is pretty cool.

I do look forward to seeing some plug-ins down the road. I would really like to see a version of Firebug for this.

 

[vacunita]

So far so good.
A few things I noticed:

Hotmail seems to think its an old browser, or more likely doesn't know what it is, and prompts you to upgrade to a newer version of a list of browsers they kindly provide. However it still loads the mail account just fine, once you ignore the message.

Of course that's a problem with Hotmail's Browser detection, and not Google's browser.

I'm surprised they did not try to bundle Google Toolbar with it and install it on their browser a long with the other 3 on my system. It seems every piece of software these days comes bundled with a Google toolbar. Gets very annoying. but I guess they think their own product doesn't need their enhancements.

I love the wide screen space, no unnecessary tool bars or menu bars etc.. More available view port to see the websites.


Again so far so good.

Well, that's it for now.





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[jaxtell]

I'd swear when I looked yesterday it didn't quite pass the acid 2 test, but it is now.

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[Ascalonian]

I find it interesting that Chrome passed the acid 2 test, but Firefox still hasn't yet.