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.

I have that to, but I want to access it only via keyboard, like Alt B on firefox.

If you click on the wrench icon, the top choice on the popup menu is an option to turn the bookmark bar on or off. Mine defaulted to off and I didn't have a bookmarks menu. There's also an options choice on the same menu but I don't see any auto-complete options.

Google Chrome
 

Google's Web Browser

I have been using it..cant say if it beats firefox (i mean its not an easy thing to do)..but you all should try it as well.

Google Chrome - Download a new browser

I can't exactly explain why, but I have absolutely no desire to try this out. I like Google and all, but I just don't know.

Maybe it's because nothing in Firefox disappoints me, and I don't feel anything is missing.

If it becomes generally accepted that this new browser is tops, I might try it. Until then? I have not reason to use up the time.

Porn, porn, porn. Its always about the porn.

:D

Good point! It's amazing how much technological development is driven by the overabundance of pornography and wanton militarism.

ahh no ad block!

tried it. It's fast! that's nice. But I'm not overly fond of its interface.

It's quickly winning me over...

I'm desperate for an alternative 'cause all browsers, including FireFox, leak memory like there's no tomorrow. I'm hoping Google Chrome will be different and I have good reason to believe that it will be.

I like its minimalist interface and its sheer speed is seductive...

Its going to have to have some add ons for me to want to use it at work, the only way I can get to TFP (at work) is to use the proxy add on because ever since the upgrade my work firewall blocks it for some reason lol AND for some strange reason it wont load gmail at work either

Benchmarks are in for the JavaScript engine... Chrome blows everyone away.

Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari | Business Tech - CNET News

In the grand scheme of things, this speed difference is of little consequence to me. I'm going to wait to see what people are saying about the whole package.

Well, when you consider that many of today's best websites use a heavy amount of JavaScript, you might reconsider. If you've ever used Digg, Google Docs, Gmail, Facebook, or any page that allows a high amount of element interaction (drag/drop, new content without refreshing, etc) you'll probably appreciate the speed.

Everything is faster. I'm using it for almost everything at work, but I still want my mouse gestures.

I don't really use a lot of that. Not yet, at least. I'm sure with the changing face of the Internet, I will see more of this on websites in general. Maybe then I'll switch to Chrome. (Although I might try it out soon, just out of curiosity, but there's no OS X option yet.) But, who knows, maybe the competition will force Firefox et al to rethink their handling of JavaScript.

Ideally, if Chrome does everything else as good as or better than Firefox, I'll reconsider.

Firefox 3.1 is going to use a new JS as well, called TraceMonkey. They think it is generally faster than the V8 used in Chrome; see Brendan's Roadmap Updates: TraceMonkey Update for their analysis.

Also, while it is present in the current nightlies, it isn't on by default yet. There's an about:config preference to do so: set javascript.options.jit.chrome to true.

Wo0t!

DO NOT WANT RIDICULOUS EULA

(emphasis mine)

Use Chrome to look at your flickr? Those images belong to Google now.
Make a blog post? Belongs to google
Upload an mp3? Google's now.

What's that? They can't have the copyright rights because you don't own the content, by, say, looking at someone ELSE'S flikr? Well...you just better not do that, as they've got they're ass covered...

Is license actually spelled the way it is in your post in their legal terms?

Everything in quotes is copied directly from the Chrome EULA that all of you who have it agreed to when you clicked 'accept and install'

If you've forgotten, click here and scroll down:

Google Chrome for Windows - Terms and Conditions Agreement


11.2 and 11.3 aren't exactly benign either, they just pale in comparison to 1 and 4:

edit: Oh ok, I misunderstood your question. Yes, it was that way when I copied it out the first time...it looks like they've fixed it now. Well, fixed the spelling anyways, which means someone is aware of it...but really, that was the part that bothered you? That you agree that google can distribute your banking information and sell your photos doesn't bother you as much as an incorrect letter?

um ok then why is it spelled right in what you just quoted, but is wrong in the first post (not that it matters I just wondered how it got misspelled so many times lol)

copied once when i made the post...copied again to get the whole section when i thought you were asking a different question.

This is most likely standard legalese. If this were meant to be the case, they wouldn't be in business much longer.

After all the press about it in the past couple of days, it surely will be reworded. I can't see how that could possibly hold up in a Court of law, or how Google would expect to continue growth.

EDIT: Here ya go:

So how long before the RIAA sues Google for claiming rights to downloaded music?

It most definitely isn't...well, it is standard for google (the reason I don't use orkut), but I agree that they will probably reword it, as "chrome EULA" has 35000 google (hmm i sense a problem) hits currently, I think it will probably be resolved soon. Similar cases with myspace and a few others have been changed.

Me? I will wait.

Gizmodo's take:

http://gizmodo.com/5044871/google-ch...osts-to-emails

Whatever.

Google is probably the world's biggest violator of copyright laws.

National and international copyright laws should supersede anything Google sneaks into their terms. Of course, much of this is still foggy in this digital age.

And, by the way, the "Content" doesn't belong to Google; they're merely licensed to use it as the terms outline (i.e., make money off of it).

This article might be of interest...

That EULA is scary, but now that they're rescinding it... how do you feel? I figure that there was no way the company could get away with that.

I feel relieved that they are backtracking it, but I also feel that people should read what they are accepting, and assume the company has had its lawyers look it over and can enforce it.

Google: Launch early and iterate.

Licence is spelled with two "cs" in the UK and Canada (and most of the English-speaking world). The "s" is American spelling.

Is it just me or is there no "home" button? I've set my homepage, however I don't know how to actually go to it minus typing it in of course.

In the options menu, there is a check box to show the home button on the tool bar.

Fun little piece.. if you go into the task manager, there is a button called "Stats for nerds" - gotta love it.

I am using it and I am getting a lot of strange errors. First off, every youtube page I visit, it tells me that the video is no longer available... Works fine in IE and Firefox. I have reinstalled Flash, both for IE and non-IE browsers twice.
I tried filling out a registration form online to buy some school books and every time I received an error that something was incorrect on the page with the list of incorrect items blank. Worked fine in IE.

It is interesting, and I bet as the beta progresses lots more features will come out. So far, I really don't like how it saves my history and doesn't clear my browser cache on exist.

I'll have a look at this around January, I think. That should be plenty of time to get an adblock, a bugmenot, and a keylogger defeat extension out there.

I am kinda enjoying it, the speed is visibly faster than FF, but who knows if that is due to Noscript, Adblock, and any other extensions I have installed.

Don't know if I will make an outright switch as I have NEVER had any issues with FF and it runs stable as a rock.

Same. I don't like the IE-like layout either. I'll wait for the regular extensions such as adblock etc that others have already mentioned.

The first thing I noticed is that it pulls proxy settings straight out of IE, and doesn't let you have your own proxy just for Chrome. :/

When I installed Windows it set my hard drive as disk H, and the card reader I have installed set up as drives C, D, E, and F, with my DVD drive as G. I don't know why it did it that way, but now ever since I installed Chrome I get a periodic googleupdate.exe message complaining about no disk in drive C. I can't make that pop-up go away until I stick a flash drive in drive C and click Continue or Retry. It's really starting to piss me off.

From what I've read here and elsewhere, it sounds like they've a lot of work to do.

Well, it's beta. This is what beta is about :)

Laconic, you need to install windows with only one drive installed at the hardware level, otherwise it will never pick the one you want as C. That apparently includes the card reader, but I didn't see that as a problem until now.

Chrome's about:memory is saying it's using more memory than firefox with 6 tabs open(Pandora Radio, Wikipedia, Digg, TFP, Youtube, and google) Chrome is using about 7-9% more total memory than Firefox.

That's a fresh install and process of chrome versus Firefox that's been running all day long. Firefox also has a few plugins installed which should be taking up a bit of memory.

There's a few other things, I can't seem to get Chrome to clear my history when I exit the browser. I share a computer and I really value my privacy. They do have the clear history button handy, but I'm lazy and firefox already does this for me.

There's a few other things. I haven't seen a popup blocker but It's possible I just haven't seen any popups yet..

The few things I liked, It opens much faster than firefox. My firefox takes 10 seconds to open sometimes. I think I'm going to like the multi-process browser. I run pandora radio in the background while playing games. It'll really slow down the game after a while. Hopefully I'll just be able to kill the Pandora tab and reopen it to get a little performance back in my game. That's yet to be tested though. The larger viewable area is nice too.

Maybe there will be some good addons soon.

I wasn't even going to try this browser because Firefox has worked fine but decided I better try it for a few weeks because I don't wanna be the last kid on the block that doesn't have it :)


edit: another thing I just realized, I can't click my mouse wheel to get the auto scroll thing working.. and I can't center click my home button or back buttons to open them in a new tab.. minor inconveniences... oh.. and there's no built in spell check.. wtf.. I'm going back to firefox.


edit again: Just noticed you can open an incognito window where browsing history isn't tracked. That's pretty nice, now I can visit my private sites AND keep public crap pasted on the front page of the browser so i can easily access it later.

I've been using Chrome for a few days now and I like it a lot. I had no real problem with FF but I'll probably stick with Chrome.

Might want to change your avatar then.

When I installed Chrome, I told it I didn't want the updater. Yet, there it is, running in the background every time I check Task Manager. I turned it off in msconfig to try and stop it coming up at Windows start up, and yet, there it is, running in the background. Again. Still.

Annoying me something terrible!

Great article with information on Chrome.
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While I copied it in I would recommend going to the article and reading it for the information.

That's weird because it's totally not supposed to do that. That's the whole point of having the multithread processing. If one tab dies the others don't. Maybe it's just a bug in the beta.

I'm still using Chrome and I love it. Anybody else still using it?

The one thing that's been really irking me is the fact that I can't press in the wheel and have it do the fast scroll thing like I could in IE and Firefox. Other than that it's alright I guess. The home page is pretty cool.

I miss Opera's "Left + Right mouse = back or forward" and "open new tab in background" middle click functionality. Other than that, meh. I'm using it, but it seems like they stripped a little too much out of the GUI...I wish I could enable 'verbose' or something.

How did you get that to work?

Right click the link you want to open in the incognito window and the option is there to choose.

Or click on the page control tool and choose "incognito window" from the drop-down menu.

TY... Just needed to look a little more. (Hate reading directions)

I had been using firefox excusively, but found that pages that had lots of flash like (Sydney Morning Herald - Business & World News Australia | smh.com.au) just freeze for ages and task mgr shows them using 100% cpu time. This was really killing my machine and short of disabling flash, I was stuffed.

So, I have started using Chrome full time, and must say I'm enjoying it - certainly not the hangs that firefox was having...

Tried it, tried it again, wasn't impressed, tried it again, I just can't make myself like it, despite all the hype. Maybe you notice the speed but I don't. Then again i'm not using a 1900's era Dell computer. I'm not having any issues with firefox/noscript/adblock config

I get the feeling the people having problems with firefox aren't running the above configuration and may be getting memory leaks from various rogue scripts they let run unchecked through the browser.

I promise, running firefox and only running scripts from the intended page that you actually want to view is better than going there with a 'faster' browser running all the scripts irrelevant to your experience.

well, the smh.com.au site uses lots of flash for their content - I did use both adblock and flashblock but it made the site just about unusable and given it is my local newspaper, I look at it most days.

Besides ,you shouldn't have to add a third party plugin to make the browser work 'normally'. (I know - flash viewer is a third party plugin, so quite ironic to use another plugin to block it).

The developer builds of Chrome for Mac now allow for the installation of extensions. I've been using Firefox since 0.3, but today I think I' will leave it behind. Still some things I'm not used to yet, but I'll get there soon.

I'm still keeping my eye on it, I have it on my netbook and it's come along a bit, but it handles flash pretty badly. I'll watch hulu on firefox and it'll stutter from time to time on a netbook because they have really low specs and all, and it takes a performance hit when it needs to clean up the cache to make room for the new video content or next episode I want to watch. chrome, on the other hand, will just completely shit after the 1st episode and require me to close the browser and reopen it to get it to load a following episode.

Some flash apps make it hang, but I've used it exclusively (except when I need to download a Youtube video or something FF extension-related) since release day. It does everything two or three times faster than any other browser I've tried.