Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV 148
mikesd81 writes "Google plans on advertising with spots promoting its Chrome browser this weekend. Google Japan had already released a 30-second video promoting Chrome on YouTube, but the company will distribute that video through the Google TV Ads network this weekend as an experiment to see if it can drum up interest in Chrome. Google advertised their browser on the New York Times' website on Wednesday."
Re:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How about actually getting the mac version out? (Score:2, Informative)
Browser chrome means the browser UI. The term originated in Firefox, where it is used in the urls for extensions and browser XUL (e.g, chrome://browser/content/browser.xul )
Re:At last Spyware for everyone ! (Score:3, Informative)
I forgot: memory usage. As a java developer I have to run a few memory sucking applications such as an IDE. The main thing that made me switch to chrome was that I got tired of restarting ff because after a while it would have eaten a significant amount of memory.
Re:How about actually getting the mac version out? (Score:4, Informative)
Chromium (the open source basis for Chrome) is available to download and compile, and you can also download unofficial binaries [manu-j.com] if you're really dying to see how Chrome for OS X is coming along.
And if you want to experience what a one-process-per-tab feels like on the Mac, you can check out the Chrome-inspired OS X browser, Stainless [stainlessapp.com].
Re:Advertising is 100% tax deductible in Canada. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:On the Contrary (Score:1, Informative)
Hi! I'm Chrome! I come without all the plugins you depend on to protect your privacy, and without those to accelerate every other browser function except JavaScript execution!
AdBlock Plus
BetterPrivacy
Cache Search
FoxyProxy/TorButton
Ghostery
Greasemonkey
DownloadThemAll
FasterFox
Firebug
Launchy
Stealthier
TabMixPlus
YSlow
I don't run FireFox, but an individualized web tool kit that Chrome will NEVER provide. Why re-invent the wheel a a way to simply stealth more advertising and information theft by Google, the largest private investment the NSA ever made?
Re:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal (Score:3, Informative)
It is very unlikely that you will ever see Chromium in the Debain repositories. Two outside programs that the browser uses are under the BSD Protection License, which Debian has not classified as a license that passes the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Hulu Add (Score:2, Informative)
Re:On the Contrary (Score:5, Informative)
Why? It's either a troll or satire.
The "individualized web toolkit" is webkit, which is used by KDE, Nokia, and Safari.
Chrome is getting extension support (albeit not Firefox compatible) real soon now.
Furthermore, Chrome has Greasemonkey support to a degree already. See http://mashable.com/2008/12/15/google-chrome-greasemonkey-scripts/ [mashable.com]
Finally, Chrome has better privacy than Firefox in some ways because it has an anonymous browsing mode, and it's more secure because of the process and sandbox model they use. Firefox is working on that, but they're a long way behind.
Really, Firefox is falling pretty far behind many of the other browsers at this point. Don't get me wrong - it's still a good browser, and way better than IE, but all that it's got going for it now is the extension framework. Safari and Chrome are both way faster than Firefox. Even IE has a better process model (Firefox runs everything in a single thread, which is why it gets really sluggish with a lot of open tabs, or when one tab is really CPU heavy). Firefox is also a huge memory hog and, at least on Linux, is pretty unstable.
Again, most of these things will be fixed if they can fix their process model, but I expect that's a long ways off. They've got a lot of catching up to do.