Chrome: Google will introduce new browser today
Google managed to steal the march on the IT news press by announcing its forthcoming new browser whilst the US was busy celebrating Labour Day. As the rest of the world was scratching around for news because the US was shut, Google could be guaranteed to get lots of attention worldwide for its announcement. The free browser, called Chrome, is supposed to be available for downloading today in more than 100 countries for computers running on Windows. Versions for OSX and Linux are still being worked on.
Chrome has 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. Having had a look at it there is not much difference between Chrome and all the other browsers out there and time will tell where its security holes are. Quite where this will leave Firefox – which ranks as the second most popular browser, and which has been dependent on Google support – is anyone’s guess. Google recently extended its advertising alliance with Firefox through 2011.
Source: Inquirer
Comments(50)
1st, will it replicate the functions of my FF3 plugins?
2nd, Google’s trying to take over the world now.
I’ll stick with Firefox
‘As the rest of the world was scratching around for news because the US was shut’
WTF?!? I had no idea it was labour day in the US and couldn’t care less…yanks really do think the world revolves around them don’t they! The only US news anyone is interested in is the election so we don’t have to put up with the current monkey you’ve got in the sh!te house
I totally agree with Samsun, in case you didn’t know there is a world outside of the states, not that many of you knew that or care, the only reason we have to keep up with the US news is in case that dumb arse( yep, thats how it’s spelt, IT’S AN ENGLISH WORD, it means bottom, not donkey) you have in charge decide to invade us for any kind of poor excuse (WMD?, IT’S ALL ABOUT OIL). Time to broaden you horizons.
but you forgot the r in your in ur last sentence..but full agree with ya
…anyways, its about chrome homes!
I just don’t think I could browse the Web anymore without all my FF extensions. We’ve been spoiled rotten with FF!
AdBlock Plus ALONE is something I don’t think I could live without, let alone DTA, Foxmarks, Greasemonkey, IE Tab, etc…
At this point, I just don’t see any browser topping FF beyond the “store-bought consumer” level. For us power users, we’d have to see a browser that was either backwards-compatible with FF extensions, or one that had a big enough community to emulate all the existing extensions.
And I haven’t even STARTED talking about security, stability, etc…
Im sorry #3/4, are we going to talk about this browser? or talk bad about America? im more interested about this browser…not that i disagree about the monkey in the sh!t house or that Americans sometimes think the world runs around them
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
haha…i just wonder since i dont see a link yet of any sort to it other than a blog, if you will need google pack or whatever its called to use it. any thoughts?
@3 & 4 – GOOD ON YA! i also HUGELY agree!! you yanks truly do belive the world revolves around yous! well it DONT! i also had no idea it was labour day and WTF kind of holiday is labour day anyway? you yanks really do do my head in! lol with all your stupidly misspelt words that are only that way to make them more simple lol like coloUr lol
and for the browser think ill just stick with the tried and tested ff as it works gr8 and very stable and fast and has some great addons
((((((( YaWN ))))))
You also forgot they drive on the WRONG side of the road.
@3: nice troll. The news story is from the Inquirer, a UK news site.
…guess i’ll wave the flag for opera.
can’t understand why people talk all this juvenile rot about Americans…they gave us the internet and have enriched the dreary cultures of the world in countless progressive and innovative ways. embrace reason and liberate your minds… if you stop living in the dark age of superstitions you might one day be worthy to utter the name and understand what it means to be “AMERICAN”
@13 monkey tree: Sorry I got lost after “can’t”. Are you saying “to be american” doesn’t “to be a fat arrogant idiot”?
Btw, I’ll stick with Fx.
(PEACE)
13 – ‘can’t understand why people talk all this juvenile rot about Americans…they gave us the internet’
Thats not true, its a myth that the US army or NASA or however the story goes invented the internet. It was some Swedish guy I believe…off the top of my head anyway.
Back on-topic – this will have to be pretty amazing to get people away from ff i think….most people use IE and are unlikely to change, those who want a better browser eare generally happy with ff….this is google tho so you never know
Yanks are cool by default. Is only that thing. These people often forgot theres something beyond the border of his lands. Other than that, and maybe Bush, are cool people.
It’s good to have another browser out there. Let’s wait and see of it is any good.
Regarding the “american” crap talk, who cares? Americans are parochial, so what. I’ve lived in a dozen countries in four continents and it is the same everywhere. Humans are like that, not just americans and expecting more of americans simply means that, after all, you consider them special. They are not.
any download links
wouldn’t mind checking it out
@monkey tree
Ahem, it was a Brit that invented the Internet, not an America. And it was a Brit that invented the computer… Geez
Lol@troll(singular troll – one person making multiple posts)
Take a look at the grand Labor Day celebrations in China, half way around the world. Or did you think it’s American? It’s a world holiday, although it’s natural for some countries in Africa to not observe it.
hey #21 is right, i didnt know that. i guess its because of labor and labour…weird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day
ohh and heres to #10 no offence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_on_the_left_or_right
I copied these words from Wikipedia if you believed in Wikipedia I believed the US government was initiated the internet:
“Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (or just the Web) interchangeably, but, as discussed above, the two terms are not synonymous.”
I searched for “The World Wide Web” and I found these words “The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and released in 1992″
“Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born 8 June 1955) is an English computer scientist”
doesn’t matter who invented it we’re after all are human.
but I thought Al Gore invented the Internet? am I wrong?!
absolutely right! America didn’t invent the internet – they developed it and gave it to the world in the form of the WWW. I don’t think other countries and cultures would have been forward thinking and ballsey enough to do that…
Doesn’t make sense…
“Google managed to steal the march on the IT news press by announcing its forthcoming new browser…called Chrome”
“Chrome has 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.”
Huh???
They’re making Chrome to shield us from them???
i thought Bangladesh invented the Internet!
@27: yeah i know.. that sounds kinda sketchy. why would they make a browser that says it would protect us from them.
Yes us “YANKS” do believe the world revolves around us and that is because it simply does. You’re right for watching what our government does next because you may very well one day be a state if our government sees value in your land. Simply put USA is the best and you all need to get off out D!CK
ARPANET NO NEED TO SAY MORE !!!
@24 HAHAHAH EUROPE invented the internet in 1992?!?!?! HAHAHA Right the AMERICAN government was already using it in the 60s buddy. Before you go off ranting make sure you don’t make yourself look like a total idiot
Actually the http protocol (the foundation of the modern world wide web) was invented by a Brit called Tim Berners-Lee in Belgium.
If it wasn’t for him everyone would still be using bbs and phoning websites manually instead of using urls
@ARPANET
hahaha
and now you will try to convince that americans landed on moon
hahaha
get real
So… is this any good?
Or we’ll be just talking about the USA?
I agree with Bonksi, the Us need to knwo there is a world out there but when I was over there the news papers were full of artciles about hwo cool america is and why the world loves america.. Not bad for being the most hated country in the world.. Ahh to be deluded and I wish those yanks woudl learn that ARSE is the correct way to say it and as Bonksi said it isn’t ass….
I wrote arse once when talking to an american and they asked what it was the started laughing because it looked “funny but cute”…… The world is just topsy turvey… Also since america is in so much debt how cool is it really to be american? The world hates you and you will have to borrow money from your apparent enemies… Lets see america get the money after bush is gone…..
God I am glad I am an Aussie.
Speaking as a Brit’ living in sunny California (that’s America btw) – the Brit’s on here need to stop being antagonistic and grow t.f. up. Yep, Britain is awesome… American’s pretty darn good too, and most hate the President too… and frankly, a lot of the world does revolve around the U.S. including its economy, hence the UK and japanese markets now tanking and credit issues (and banks going under) all because the US and its people don’t balance its budget causing worldwide fear by banks. Given that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s 4th largest economy, and Southern California on its own representing what would be the world’s 5th largest economy… you gotta admit… the U.S> greatly effects the world.
Oh, and because I’m “in both camps”, I must be right.
Thanks.
As for chrome… go to the posted link and read the comic… I don’t doubt once they’ve proven security isn’t an issue, chrome will be huuuge.
hoorah for open source.
You idiot lol. USE GOOGLE!
Your own countries also celebrate LABOR DAY.
Lol, ignorant people with big mouths….. and all you have to be able to do is type.
US invented the arpanet, darpanet from which internet the internet evloved, but WWW (world wide web) which we synonimise (is this correct word?) with the internet these days was invented by Sir Tim Burners Lee without whom we wouldn’t be using the browser and there would be no google and hence no Chrome.
@Samsun – You are worse than a troll. Your first comment (and the following) are not meant for an article like this.
Ok. To get back on topic. Chrome will be exploited. The bugs and holes will not be fixed until they are either reported.
Do you want to be one of the first ginnie pigs?
http://tools.google.com/chrome/?hl=en-US
^^^ Download.
A) Comic was excellent. Chrome will be excellent. Yes, security will be #1 problem, since its open source.
B) @40. I will be one of the first “guinea pigs”.
C) @41 Thanks… downloading.
anyone download the BETA? i tried but it says accept terms and install and it just sits there.. LOL .. no download
browsing the site with chrome and i m impressed both in terms of speed and memory footprint
@OrthodoxAtheist
” Yes, security will be #1 problem, since its open source.”
so is firefox look at http://www.mozilla.org/about/
is it unsecure?
To simple for me & it will spam you with google ads! I have 4GB of RAM so I don’t give a shiit if my browser uses 30Mb or 100Mb! Oh! And the speed thing is BS! Congratulations the site had loaded 0.02s faster! LOL! IE8 FTW!
BTW: In IE I can install any search engine I want! Why I cannot do that in FF3? For example btjunkie or piratebay? That sucks!
This is pathetic. Most of you who are talking down on the US have never even been here, and base your mislead beliefs on us from the actions of 1 man. Believe it or not, most Americans HATE Bush! Frankly I believe your a bit jealous, otherwise you wouldn’t give us the attention. And I agree people are a$$holes everywhere you go, not just in America. If you actually bothered to come here you would know, instead of just talking sh!t behind a computer. We don’t think the world revolves around us, YOU do!
BTW, just to add some more idiotic facts.. the US didn’t contribute significantly in WW2 and we didn’t invent the internet, k? (Afghanistan did) There. Done.
/end rant
Oh and Chrome has potential, but unless it has its own version of Adblock+ and great security.. I dont see it competing with the top 2. (I doubt they’ll put an adblock in there, it wouldn’t benefit their ad revenue.)
HAHAHA are you serious?! IE8 is only good for pedophiles and pervs looking at porn on their work computer!! Its crap.
im using chrome right now. im quite happy with it actually. its got some very nice features from firefox, opera, etc all rolled into a very tight package. if you guys had read the comic google put together then we could realize that google is trying to put together a lot more than just a browser. but better optimized browsers in general, such as gears, individual processes in tabs. as for IE8 debuting they super awesome mode?! firefox has been able to do it for ages, and chrome has actually rolled out basically the same thing, cept earlier, opensource, and probably better in the long run.
we need plugins and roboform, and it will be golden
Signing Away Your Rights with Google Chrome
http://www.on-demandenterprise.com/blogs/27827494.html
Google Updates Chrome’s Terms of Service
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/04/2333205