Google Chrome - New Web Browser
 

As it is, I'm pretty stocked when it comes to the browsers, but I'm looking forward to the new Google browser. After reading their comic that explains whats new about the browser, I am anxious to see what its like.

Read the comic here... might be too busy to browse at times: Google on Google Chrome - comic book

A few highlights:
Independent, isolated and quarantined processes make it so that browser tabs 1) use their own resources 2) can be attached to any window without interrupting the state 3) cannot interact with the hard drive or the OS 4) can crash without affecting any other tab.

Plugins (most notably flash) use their own processes, so if they crash, the rest of the page continues to function.

A JavaScript VM designed to speed up JS for modern web applications.

It launches tomorrow, so I'll check it out.

Who is with me?

Check out the official google blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...n-browser.html

Sounds pretty sweet. I might have to check it out. Does it include ads?

I'll try it. Probably won't give up Opera though. It's based on webkit, I wonder if they'll bundle/brand the Android browser as Chrome? Hmmm

Im pretty much hooked on firefox thanks to adblock plus and its subscriptions but i might give it a try just for the hell of it.

I plan on trying it out, I really like the "self contained" crashes idea. Its going to have to go a long way to get me to stop using FF though

I like the idea of isolated processes for tabs and plugins. Sounds resource-intensive, though. Although how it could be much more of a hog than my browser of choice, Firefox, is hard to imagine.

Yeah, I read about that last night.

I might have a gander, just for shits and giggles.

I'll give it a whirl, but I doubt I will drop FF for it though.

If it's anything like they say it is, I'll probably end up using it. It sounds like it's really solid.

So uh...other than that quickly deleted download page that they also removed the cache of this morning, anyone get into the Beta or find out how/where to download this?

I'll be checking it out too. I'd ordinarily say I doubt they'll beat Firefox, but. . .this is Google. They have a reputation for releasing damned good, very polished first-run products.

I think I read that it is only a Windows release at this time, and since I'm on Mac, I won't check it out. Also, as Shani said, it would take a lot of work to take me away from Firefox, I rely on many of the subtle tweaks that are available in Firefox.

Google is holding a press conference @ 11:00 a.m.(PDT). I'd expect that this will be the official launch.

the beta page says its 14 hours and 31 minutes (as of right now) until the d/l is available

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oops, upon refresh, its changed to tomorrow (1 day)

That's the only place I saw too, but freechromethemes.com doesn't seem like a very official url, and that doesn't seem like a very official page...why would google have adsense at the bottom of their new product release page?

Is there a press release or something somewhere stating it will be tomorrow? Everything I saw said "Tuesday"

edit: haha, little opportunist...good job with his SEO, I suppose...beating google at their own game can't be easy!

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I as well will probably give it a whirl, but I love firefox, I doubt I will switch over fully to it, but who knows.

Firefox can definitely be a resource hog, though if you make a few adjustments you can whittle that down considerably. I would also recommend Firefox 3.0 if you haven't downloaded it. If you haven't looked into Firefox tweaks at all here is a good link for you to try Optimizing Firefox 3 Hacks And Tweaks. I promise that they are very simple and easy to use(if I could do it.. yada yada) by simply opening your browser with about:config.

I am still interested in trying the Google browser, don't get me wrong.

It's starting to look like a fantastic marketing ploy, even if it does become available tomorrow ...

I just downloaded it now and am typing this on Chrome. It will be interesting to try out.

Thanks for the heads up. Downloading now :)

Interesting thus far... will be playing.

I really like Chrome so far.. of course, I've only visited a handful of sites so far.. but I like it.

This browser is easy to use and I like the simple interface.

What do you think of Chrome?

I'm using it now and I like it so far. Its funny how there are some TFP features that aren't available in FF that I can see here. Notably, the quick reply box resizing tool. I'm liking the speed and the lack of clutter. I am about to set off to navigate through google apps and lots of AJAX-intensive pages.

I'm using it right now and it's not half bad.

I like the Incognito mode. It always annoyed me that I would have to clear the entire history to eliminate certain websites from showing up in the address bar. This way is much more elegant.

I've already sent in bug reports for a couple websites that aren't displaying properly. Hope they find this information useful!

It's good enough in the first few hours that I'll probably make the switch when a mouse gestures plugin appears. I'll be playing with it over the next few days at work to see how it is with the websites I visit frequently.

They need a Mac version... and they need it now.

+1

Yeah I noticed that too. I've been playing with it all day and I'm impressed. It's just clean and smooth and with the ability to import all of my settings from firefox with a few clicks - it's certainly looking like a contender.

Though it scrolls a little too quickly when I use the scrollbar on my laptop touchpad.

Am I the only one noticing a significant increase in speed? Even the TFP is faster than Firefox.

I'll be downloading it and checking it out at work tomorrow.. I'm a web programmer so it will count as work, ha :). Hopefully it will not interpret HTML/Javascript too differently from other browsers...

Yes, very simple and everything's faster. I like the historical view. Often times I need to go back to something I saw earlier in the day and it can be a job to locate. This makes it all easy, so far.

It uses WebKit, so it should be fully standards compliant. Same engine as Safari.

Im having a really hard time getting used to the tabs being at the top of the page, I keep clicking on the bookmark bar thinking its my tabs lol

Not available for Mac

*grumble*

Ok, cool.

My biggest complaint so far: no integrated Gmail notifier.

duh.

I need to figure it out more, wish I could access the bookmark as a pull down menu, and I wish I can configure it to get rid of some of the auto completes.

So far it seems very smooth. I have to admit that when I looked at the tasks in the task manager I was surprised at how it was shown several times, but it doesn't seem to be a burden either.

I have a menu for bookmarks. Its on the right under the wrench.