Google Chrome beta - now available

Well worth a look if you haven't seen it yet. Download here

, documentation here

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Regards,

Pete

PS HTML form handling - textarea anyway - still very fragile judging by the amount of time and effort taken to enter this post!

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Pete,

I've had a play with this and I'm impressed so far. I'm already a long term user of Webkit so the rendering speed is nothing new to me, but I'm interesting in seeing some JS benchmarks as I believe this is a completely new engine.

Certainly worth giving a try!

Andrew

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:

Yes, feels like FF3 without the clutter - which aiui is exactly what they are aiming for. If I was a Mozilla developer I might be a tad miffed, unless of course I thought there could be a job at google on the horizon.

I suspect the availability of good quality plugins will be critical for take up, but I don't think it will be long before people start writing them - if indeed they haven't already begun.

Regards,

Pete

NetHosted Staff Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 302

I've had a little go on this myself, from a speed and stability point of view it seems very nice!

I'd like to see a few more features to make it more customisable though, specifically I've always enjoyed being able to set my own shortcuts in Opera, and mouse gestures definitely wouldnt go amiss either. Looking forward to seeing where they take it, nice to have some more competition too, especially such strong competition, hopefully the others will raise their game!

Regards,

Darryl

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 287

although it does make you wonder what they will do with all the extra information they gather via the browser?!

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NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 287

best have a read of this :S

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:31 am Post subject:

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 287

but does it mean they will stop? Something very unsavoury about Google at times. With their own browser won't they be able to monitor and store your movements even more?

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NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 287

ok. Probably still won't touch it

just reading on the BBC website that they changed the wording because they had just used some wording for other products ....and the implication they overlooked it.

Who are they trying to kid!

NetHosted Customer Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 150

I like it. I think my favourite things about it are the way it looks, the responsiveness of the, um... "chrome"/user interface (I could spend too long just messing about moving tabs around & pressing Ctrl-B etc...) and the fact that the tabs enclose the toolbars - I think it makes sense for each tab to have its own location bar because each tab has its own location

I don't think it will replace Firefox for me. I can see myself using it every now and then as a second browser but that might have something to do with its "Incognito Browsing" mode

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