Google Chrome, the Google Browser 807
Philipp Lenssen writes "Google announced their very own browser project called Google Chrome — an announcement in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, no less. Google says Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include the Google Gears add-on by default, and put the tabs above the address bar (not below), among other things. I've also uploaded Google's comic book with all the details (details given from Google's perspective, anyway... let's see how this holds up). While Google provided the URL www.google.com/chrome there's nothing up there yet."
Re:Very Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
To the vast majority of users, Netscape was the Internet.
Google has since taken that place. Google is the Internet to many people. So much so that Google has felt compelled to to prevent the genericizing [independent.co.uk] of their mark.
Well I'd better do some googling to find out about that.
Re:Very Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
To take advantage of the forefront in "tabs at the top" technology, of course. I am personally very excited that science has progressed to the point where we can now have tabs above the address bar.
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Re:Google already released their browser (Score:3, Funny)
Re:404?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Can't stay on task long enough to read a Slashdot summary ? Better up your Ritalin dose.
I just uncovered some hidden subtitles (Score:5, Funny)
Just when you thought Google wasn't going to get any cooler, we try desperately to prove you wrong.
Don't worry, it won't be out of Beta until IE 10.
Now with Omni Bar, the omniscient Awesome Bar
Just when you thought data mining couldn't get any closer to home
OK, in all seriousness I think it's nice to see another Webkit based browser around. I'm personally waiting to see the Epiphany team's Webkit based browser. Hopefully, Google's Chrome project will spur some innovations that the Firefox/Safari/Opera/IE competition has failed to supply. Maybe the JS engine will prove it's worth as well, speedups in this area are always nice.
Excellent - I can't wait! (Score:5, Funny)
What would really impress me... (Score:5, Funny)
would be an *online browser*. Like Google docs. Imagine just how great it would be not to need a browser to go online. History, cookies, bookmarks, all stored on Google servers. Plus it would be incredibly fast since the internet is already on Google servers!
Also that would be very convenient for Google, they could access our private information locally on their servers, no need to "call home". Hell they could even check with our e-bank statements to see how much money we can spend so they could offer really well-targeted ads.
That would be huge. All they need for me to sign up is to throw in some features involving blogs, mashups and Spacebook.
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And there's more:
They've taken IE's disgusting perverted porn mode idea that only perverts would use, and put it in their own browser so now you can use it to keep your wholesome family activity like buying surprise gifts for your loving husband or your precious children, a delightful little secret for now. Finally, a browser for good-old fashioned God fearing Americans like you and me. Gosh, those perverts at Microsoft, a porn mode! Who would imagine such a thing...
Re:Very Interesting... (Score:2, Funny)
my mum rang me before asking why the internet is not working
i asked her "whats wrong?"
she said "google is not loading!"
me "oh ok?!"
mum "the logo is not there!"
thats when it hit me that she didn't know that google change logos regularly and it really confused her
Re:404?!?!? (Score:2, Funny)
Are you kidding?? Did we just Slashdot Google? If not then why does it read "Not Found Error 404" on http://www.google.com/chrome [google.com]?
Less surprising perhaps, I keep getting the status code 301 for www.microsoft.com/steve-ballmers-chair
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Where's Belgium? (Score:5, Funny)
Weird because the rest of the chart seems pretty correct.
This must mean all of Google are Nazi's.
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Re:Very Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
Well how else you think Schroedinbugs [catb.org] can exist? Microsoft is way ahead of Open Source world on this one.
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Don't be silly, Google *loves* URLs. Well, at least certain ones. http://www.google.com/ [google.com] is awesome, as are http://www.blogger.com/ [blogger.com] http://www.gmail.com/ [gmail.com] http://www.youtube.com/ [youtube.com] and http://www.froogle.com/ [froogle.com] just to name a few!
Re:Webkit (Score:5, Funny)
So will Google add ad filtering capabilities?
Re:Very Interesting... (Score:3, Funny)
Try it for a day. Then comment.
It sucks. As do all the things that open up on the side of the page like the history (ctrl-h) and bookmarks (ctrl-b) in FireFox.
I really don't like things to open or display on the side in most cases, except in file browsers that have the directory tree on the left and files on the right. (Just so you know: when I put post-it tabs on dead tree books, I put them at the top).
I've got a really neat and revolutionary idea, though: Why not let the user decide where the tabs go? Then they can go on the top, the bottom, the left, the right, or even maybe a floating window!!! I should file for a patent.
Re:Very Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
I'll contact HR and have them run a survey for ya
Re:The not-so-fast JavaScript VM? (Score:3, Funny)
the name of the VM doesn't exactly send the signal that it will be the fastest one around?
Hey, I'm a RoadWarrior driving one of the last of the V8s, you insensitive clod!
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Re:Ha! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where's Belgium? (Score:1, Funny)
You misinterpreted the map:
Thanks to the V8, Belgium won the war and occupied Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland,most of Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary.
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