Google Chrome

Have you guys seen google's new web browser they're releasing tomorow? Its called google chrome, and it looks like it could be really cool. I'm not sure I'm ready to give up my precious firefox just yet, but I'll definately check out google chrome. This blog post explains the stuff it is supposed to do: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html

EDIT: Its launched. Download it here

Hm... I thought Google and Firefox were on terms with each other, I remember I used to see "get firefox" underneath google's main page.

I don't know I'll use it, although I may get it to check out the HTML coding to make sure it works on the websites I work on.

Ooooooh, I'm gettin' it!

I'll give it a go, Google usually makes good stuff, but like you, I'm in a long-term committed relationship with Firefox right now.

Holy crap! How did they manage to keep this secret until 1 day before release? I'm not switching, I'm perfectly fine with Firefox 3.

Also, does the logo look like Simon Says to anyone else?

Looks like it's combining alot of features from other browsers to their own.
Also, I love that this needs to be announced as if it were a feature.
" Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar."

In any case, I'll give it a go.

I just heard of this.

As far as I know, Google's ad money is all of Firefox's revenue, so I don't know why they would make a new browser.

The only way I'd switch to this from Firefox is if the interface was more responsive and it was faster. Firefox just feels way too bloated. Opera is so much better but many web sites don't work with it.

I just want a browser that can surf the web decently, that's all I want.

"Also, does the logo look like Simon Says to anyone else? "

"I just heard of this.

As far as I know, Google's ad money is all of Firefox's revenue, so I don't know why they would make a new browser.

The only way I'd switch to this from Firefox is if the interface was more responsive and it was faster. Firefox just feels way too bloated. Opera is so much better but many web sites don't work with it.

I just want a browser that can surf the web decently, that's all I want.

"

oh a Google browsers, i check it out then i got back to Firefox and Opera

Definitely going to try it, given that Gmail, iGoogle, Google Docs, etc. are all fantastic.

I'll check it out.

It seems a bit strange for them to come up with a browser when they've supported Firefox so much over the years. Nothing new in terms of features, but they seem to be taking a new approach to it by focusing on the performance instead, which is interesting. Most new browsers don't do so well because they just pile on more features (though usually the new browsers are just shells of an existing browser engine), so perhaps their new approach might let them get their foot in the door.

Now that I think of it, perhaps more people will recognize google than those who don't know of Firefox. I'm all for creating alternative browsers, especially if they can stop schools and colleges from having IE only on their PCs.

Sounds cool I'll check it out.

Neat. Doesn't that little logo thingy on the website look like a pester ball from Pokemon? (Snap) That game is sweet!

Cheers for letting me know about this Matty, not sure i can give up my FireFox just yet but if it proves to be a big hit then i'd be willing to give thise Google Chrome a try out. Now all we need is a google operating system!

Looks like I might have to break up with foxy, she was getting a bit old anyways.

I'm scared of change.

But we'll see if GC will be any good.

the google.com/chrome link is still returning the 404 error. Come on google. Hurry up, I want to try it out!!!!!

I'll give this a go, but Firefox will be my primary browser for a while to come..

Link not working for me, i cant wait to see how it is though, its gonna have to be good to compete with FF3.

There are some screenshots. If this browser is considerably more responsive and faster than Firefox, I'll definitely get it:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-02-n72.html

So how poorly does it work with this website?  Anybody?

I'm sticking with Fx thank you.

It hasn't been released yet, but apparently it's coming...

I'm curious to see how this site will function on chrome now.

"Looks like it's combining alot of features from other browsers to their own.
Also, I love that this needs to be announced as if it were a feature.
" Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar."

In any case, I'll give it a go."

"I'm curious to see how this site will function on chrome now."

The screenshots kind of remind me of Firefox, but I will be it a try none-the-less. It probably won't break my addiction to Firefox, though.

Looks simple and sleak, look forward to it.

I'm looking forward to it.  Let's see if it will replace Firefox as my primary web browser.

Looks interesting.
Must watch......

Looking good - should be nice to try this out - I can't imagine it'll offer anything more than Firefox in its first few iterations but I bet we'll see it develop pretty rapidly.
The great thing is, it uses the WebKit engine (the same as Safari) - web developers have been going on for ages about how nice it would be to see all browsers based around one engine, so with Google pushing it, we could hopefully start seeing this happen... WebKit also happens to be, next to Opera, the most standards compliant rendering engine as of the moment, which means we're either going to see Gecko and Mosaic fade away, or rush to catch up... at least, I hope.

I Chrome I really really really good i'll use It at my main one.

Meh. Flock is where it's at.

I'll definitely give it a shot. I love Firefox, and it'll take a lot to oust it from its position as my primary browser, but this looks like it's shaping up to be pretty good.

I wants to try it. I went to gears.google.com/chrome but it sent me to google.com. >.> I wants to try it. =[

It's released!!! Go and download it now!

http://www.google.com/chrome

"It's released!!! Go and download it now!

http://www.google.com/chrome"

1) Okay, so how am I supposed to get flash and java working in this browser?

"I'm posting this using Chrome.

Yay?!

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"Okay, so how am I supposed to get flash and java working in this browser?"

Ok, flash works for me too, but it lagged up the browser quite a bit. Overall for normal browsing it is more responsive, but when I have many tabs open, all with javascript, and some with flash or whatnot, then it gets laggy, and it locked up several times. 

Seems a bit too simple for my liking. Probably just need to get used to it. I'm having trouble sorting out my favourites at the moment.

So far, I want to like it. Its simple and easy to use and pages load quickly, but there are a couple of little problems I don't like - scroll speed is too fast (and there doesn't seem to be a way to change it), tooltips apear in the botom corner. So I'm sticking with firefox for now, but chrome is open source, so people are going to fix these problems, so I might revisit it in a while.

I downloaded it, but it displayed some sites I need for work really wonky.  Guess I will stick with FireFox 3 for the time being.

Using it now, seems pretty nice! It's definitely the fastest browser available, shame there are two things that bother me. No scrolling down the page with middle click and the bookmarks need to be in a more accessible place.