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The Chrome of Google has arrived
The web browser of the 21st century ?
Written by Enigmatux on 03 september 2008 at 09h50 Source Google Blog
Besides, on the web everybody was looking forward to it. Only a comic book (38 pages) created by the designer Scott McCloud was available (in fact, initially Google chose to broadcast the announcement of Chrome through the comic book to a limited public but Google has been caught short by blogoscoped who unveiled it Monday morning and the information spread quickly over the net...), to read it, it is here
So, Google Chrome enters in direct competition with web browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer (the version 8 was recently released in beta), Opera, etc.. and will undoubtedly upset the world of web browsers.
Well, Google Chrome is an Open Source browser, with a simple and discreet interface, combining the best features of other web browsers, but adds news also . The aim is to make Chrome a modern and fast platform for web pages and applications.
It uses Webkit as rendering engine (like made already Safari, Konqueror, Android...) and also some components of Firefox.
One of the main elements which characterize Chrome is the isolation process for each tab in a sandbox in order to prevent one tab from crashing another and to improve protection from rogue sites.
In addition, each process being independent, it is possible to look, such as in our operating system, their consummation via a task manager for the tabs.
The address bar, called Omnibox, is also used for search. Chrome includes a powerful and fast virtual machine for the execution of JavaScript code, called V8, in order to better manage the next generation of web applications, and it integrates directly Google Gears to support Web applications offline...
If you want more information about the various features of Chrome, follow this way.
You can also view this video :
Available at the moment for download only for Windows and in 40 languages, users of Mac OSX and Linux will have to be patient, a version is in preparation.
First impressions about Chrome ?
From its first launch, Chrome offers to us to import our favorites, the history... since Firefox, which is rather pleasant. Nice to use, it is fast and tabs are put forward (no menu bar, so, more space). We have the possibility to customize the home page, especially if you wish, Chrome can display as thumbnails the web sites which you visit the most.
Come on, the best is to leave you the pleasure to discover it by yourself, and tell us what you think, knowing that it is still in beta, all features are not yet available and others must certainly be improved.
For download Google Chrome, it is by this way.
In any case, its arrival will probably change the world of web browsers, but it is still too early to say this...
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I may have jumped on the Chrome-bandwagon too quickly, but generally I'm not a huge fan of Google. I use their search, but I don't use any of their apps, I've never really been attracted to them - but Chrome is the exception, it converted me in a few minutes, when other Google apps are still lying unused by me, and the best is yet to come!
Well you shoul take a look at it
It states that anything that moves through the Chrome browser is the property of Google. They can use it for anything they want. So, no thanks. Firefox for me
This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services
So that's only so they can display the services, distribute and promote them. If they don't have rights to display the stuff you put on their services, like Picasa, then you could sue them just for showing them to you, because you haven't given them the right to.
anyway it won't be there for long. And neither will the two slighlty worrying security flaws...
I may have jumped on the Chrome-bandwagon too quickly, but generally I'm not a huge fan of Google. I use their search, but I don't use any of their apps, I've never really been attracted to them - but Chrome is the exception, it converted me in a few minutes, when other Google apps are still lying unused by me, and the best is yet to come![/quote]
Nope not new on the amiga with aweb and better in 1997 -not too mention the other 2 we have that are way better then that.
Have you read the license agreement? No.
Well you shoul take a look at it
It states that anything that moves through the Chrome browser is the property of Google. They can use it for anything they want. So, no thanks. Firefox for me
This has already been changed.