Google Chrome Is Out of Beta 444
BitZtream writes "This morning Google announced that Chrome is out of Beta, and showing improvements for plugin support, most notably video speed improvements. It also contains an updated javascript engine, claiming that it operates 1.4 times faster than the beta version, and work has begun on an extensions platform to allow easier integration with the browser by third parties."
Out of beta? (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one surprised just to hear that Google has taken something out of beta?
Re:just what we need (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Out of beta? (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one surprised just to hear that Google has taken something out of beta?
No, and you ain't in Kansas, neither.
Re:just what we need (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)
Everyone except Microsoft welcomes Chrome (Score:5, Funny)
"We absolutely promise that we only want to completely screw over Microsoft [today.com] with this, and certainly not Mozilla Firefox," said Google's Sundar Pichai. "That we put a pile of our sponsored Mozilla developers on the project is completely irrelevant. We're not evil, remember."
"We are so, so happy with Google Chrome," mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth. "That most of our income is from Google has no bearing on me making this statement."
Microsoft was unfazed. "Browsers don't need to be integrated with online apps," said marketing developer Ian Moulster. "Certainly not like the operating system ... I'll just get back to you."
Google's new browser will give you their web and email services, photo processing, mapping, office applications that will run in said browser and will make you a cup of tea. This is all paid for by personally-directed text ads in your tea leaves, based on analysing a DNA sample taken when you sip the tea and sending your genetic code back to Google for future targeting.
Pichai stressed that Google would maintain complete confidentiality within the marketing department of whatever the browser accessed concerning your confidential business data, bank account details, medical information and personal preferences in pornography. "We're Google. We know where you live. In a completely not evil way. Sponsored link: Get Chrome Browsers on google.com. Or we'll make you use Windows Live."
Re:Neat - Mac OS X ? Linux? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, not releasing on all three major platforms seems pretty brain-.dmg'ed.
I'm seeing a pattern, though. Could it be that developing cross-platform applications is something for which Google doesn't have any aptitude?
Re:Addons (Score:5, Funny)
I am sorry, I can not conceive the internet any more without add-block...
I find that subtraction works well.
Re:just what we need (Score:5, Funny)
I would try an explain it with a car industry analogy, but there isn't one.
Re:OEM deals (Score:3, Funny)
Dunno. Are there any other Google products out of beta? :-)
Re:just what we need (Score:5, Funny)
Re:just what we need (Score:5, Funny)
A car industry or an analogy?
Re:Don't forget the WebKit team (Score:5, Funny)
Re:just what we need (Score:5, Funny)
So what you're saying is
1) Release two virtually indentical products under different names for twice the development cost.
2) ???
3) Bailout!
How much longer until Sun gets a bailout?
Re:Don't forget the WebKit team (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but is mo better [foxnews.com]?
Re:Don't forget the WebKit team (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Addons (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot has ads now?
Re:Addons (Score:2, Funny)
Viewing ads for moral reasons? I am fed up w/ this crap since my Soviet Communist youth...
Re:Don't forget the WebKit team (Score:5, Funny)
Man, that must have been awkward for the first few generations....
Re:Don't forget the WebKit team (Score:2, Funny)
Thank God Chrome's out of beta.