Just what we need... another Web browser http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26499328

Edited to add:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/ … owser.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHo … er#PPA1,M1

Looks interesting!

Would you recommend giving it a try or keeping well away till they get the bugs out?

Any word on web design for the new browser? If Google's commitment to standards compliant code runs to form, it may be harder to manage than IE.

Regards,
Laurie.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

Cynical me reads this as "we have pinched everyone else's ideas/code and have repackaged it and hope to get free development from the community to put some other Google branded product into the marketplace.

All a branding exercise surely!

http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk/02092 … launching/

With googles ambition to collect as much data as possible, do you think privacy will be an issue?

watch this grow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

Google is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine.

Urm, why not just partner up with Mozilla? They already have the awesome, functional  and user friendly browser - google is already an advertising partner... seems a waste of energy when google could just be pumping cash into the open source community.

Google's browser is expected to hit the market a week after Microsoft's unveiling of a test version of its latest browser update, Internet Explorer 8. The tweaks include more tools for Web surfers to cloak their online preferences, creating a shield that could make it more difficult for Google and other marketing networks to figure out which ads are most likely to appeal to which individuals.

Then again... Would mozilla be happy with googles obvious attempt to undermine user privacy...

What a twist.

I will stick to my FF, its bad enough google can track my phone - i dont need the bustard knowing how many times i click in an hour on the net as well...

Well, this is most certainly another great way for them to collect data and from a search perspective, it also means we need to be watching for behavioral data in the ranking process. I am sure it comes with the Google ToolBar and internal elements for tracking as well.

We can add this to my prophecy of Google watching you everywhere

Resistance is futile.....

Ryan_steyn wrote:

Google is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine.

Urm, why not just partner up with Mozilla?

Google chrome is using webkit - the open source renderer that mozilla firefox is based on

Having read the comic and understood all the process-threading stuff (as well as a permissions re-think) this looks like a huge revolution.....and as my planned webapps grow beyond the stability currently offered this is a very exciting concept from where i'm standing

If you get a spare half hour (maybe i'm just a slow reader) I suggest you read the comic, it's great stuff!!!!

To download Google Chrome you will need to go to this link

http://gears.google.com/chrome

However, at time of writing it hasn't been released yet - we're told it'll be later today

Hectic... i see your point Northie, especially now that im actually studying Java at the moment with full intent on creating applications for a global audience. One thing to keep in mind when staring at the stars and imagining the seamless future is the (yes... i know im a nerd) theory behind quantum computing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

Side Note - Dave - i dumped a theory in your blog... "dump" is used meaningfully... i wont be bleak if you delete it

One day quantum computers will start popping up... much like the dual cores and 8 cores and 80 core processors (yes they exist) appeared, and when it does... and it mixes with google, we will end up in a world where there are no limits to how big n nasty our apps get. It will be only a matter of time before they figure out how to apply the quantum theory to data transfer as well which will literally change what we now consider a "fast paced lifestyle".

Reason i bring this up is because as google finds newer, sneakier ways of sucking in personal info - the rate at which google can aquire this info increases, eventually it could start looking something like this...  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

Just something for everyone to think about

By the by... all this talk reminds me of the anima movie "Ghost in Shell" ... i wonder how one will go about getting a job in "Google Corp" in the future i guess they will just choose you

Ryan_steyn wrote:

One thing to keep in mind when staring at the stars and imagining the seamless future is the  theory behind quantum computing.

One of my university lecturers (i did study phyics) was working on just such a box...a box no bigger than your hand with just a few hydrogen nuclei in is all it takes.....problem back then was producing a single photon with the exact energy to make the proton (hydrogen nuclei) do something or interrogate it....he was getting 2 or 3 photons sharing the energy or none at all with the energy dissipating as heat to other parts of the device

I am writing this post using as normal, but the browser I'm using is google chrome

First impressions - i love it

But this may be because I've been waiting a while and after reading about how this thing works i've been very excited - bit of a novelty, really.

One of the first things I noticed is how fast this thing is - i mean seriously fast, especially when loading up intensive applications like gmail

Then I noticed how some pages don't work as expected, minor css and javascript bugs - but these are things i can iron out in my code and this new browser is another testing platform.

If you've recently upgraded to firefox 3 then you'll notice some similarities between the rendering and functionality- but this is probably down to the common webkit libraries the two applications share.

Cool, but at times, pointless - i can resize the text box i'm writing in

One of the best things about it is the multi-threaded processing that goes on behind the scenes

One downer - google maps doesn't completely work

Another plus is the developer tools, you get something similar to firebug with javascript console and dom inspector. Another cool thing is the task manager, where you can see the resources for individual tabs and kill tabs directly if they stop working.

Right, off to test some other sites...............

Thats pretty cool, its nice to know that someone else is as aware as i am as to how close we actually are to such devices coming into existence. Check out the chat room... Haudran cannon may be about to boost this technology.

Well, if Chrome renders like ff3 then i am keen, i will start downloading now... Fortunately my sites run nicely on ff3 so all should be well. My ie hacks didnt seem to be effected nor has my one javascript (pop up video). Nice to know i have developed a future compatible site

UPDATE:
HAHAHAHAHHAHa.... did you see the incognito mode? brilliant!!!
I wont lie, it looks great, i dont seem to have any problems with sites on my side, but there is still time to hunt.
It is damn quick... im very impressed, i am however a bit bleak about no "add-on" apps like fireftp and other such tools that just make it all so much easier. Very simple, very clean, very straight forward...

link for download
http://www.google.com/chrome

I cannot help but have the feeling that maybe Google is getting too interwoven into our lives -
Maybe there will be a movement away from them for the same reason many have moved away from Microsoft products.

Scary. I wonder if Google will track this like the Alexa toolbar or something. They have the power.

matte wrote:

I cannot help but have the feeling that maybe Google is getting too interwoven into our lives -
Maybe there will be a movement away from them for the same reason many have moved away from Microsoft products.

I reckon that's a good theory, unfortunately though, the rate at which Google is growing/expanding is almost on par with the rate technology is advancing... so basically our lives get easier and easier thus making people question why anybody would want an alternative to google, why hassle? Microsoft was never really on par with technology, and rarely made the average persons life much easier (hense a whole generation who hate computers) therefor it was a lot easier for people to turn their backs on it - Google has the distinct advantage of seeing everyone else's mistakes and redeveloping them... yahoo/google + Windows Mobile/Google Android + hotmail/gmail + firefox/chrome etc.

Not to say Google doesnt have its own original ideas and apps... just saying that i think in some aspects their is a strategy of seeing where a product will fail before you push out your own product.  Cant really complain about it either, technology is destined to be controlled by one system, everything will eventually be able to sync with everything else - in a different world we could be having this scenario with Microsoft - wouldn't that suck