Google Release 'Chrome' its new web browser

[Timmo]

Google has released its new web browser called 'Chrome' which is an open source program which does things a bit differently. Once of the main differences is that each tab is a separate process (haha cool, I just spelled 'separate' wrong and it told me) which means if that tab crashes or is doing something nasty, you can close it without closing your whole browser....

About Google Chrome

Some thoughts after using it for half an hour: It installs quickly. The interface is clean and logical. It takes a little while for the session to open (slower than I.E 6 on this machine, Firefox has always been reaaaaaally slow to start for me) but im unsure if that is to do with having no data in cache yet. Google maps works a lot faster!.....unfortunately I cant get the Google Earth plugin to work? (im working on it)

Well worth a look.

[creator2003]

Thanks for the head up ive been looking for a good browers since netscape stop support ,sound good having the goggle earth plugin ,would be alittle quicker to check on stuff ...

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Timmo @ Sep 3 2008, 11:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Google has released its new web browser called 'Chrome'

Yeah, interesting initiative, one of my workmates is furiously playing with it. Have you checked out the "Google Book" on chrome...
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

woulda taken a hell of a lot of work to do all that illustrating, quite a cool way to document it tho

[Mattnz]

Will have to try this one....it's sitting on my desktop ready to be installed right now

Looks quite good from what I have seen on the internet about it

[victor_alpha_charlie]

I'm using it now, new layout to get used to, otherwise I like it

[Njbb1995]

can you get the Google toolbar for it? Oh and i like the spell checker!!

[AlisterC]

It seems to use less system resources (memory) than Firefox 3 when running, so I might use this when I'm flying, thanks

[Timmo]

QUOTE (njbb1995 @ Sep 3 2008, 06:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

can you get the Google toolbar for it? Oh and i like the spell checker!!

What would you need it for?

[Njbb1995]

well good point mainly to fill up the top space and to do all the other stuff it does like auto fill etc...

[Timmo]

I think it handles all of that? Certainly you can just search google (or any other search engine that you choose) by simply typing in the address bar

[markll]

All I'll say about Chrome is that you should remember that it's beta software. That means that you really shouldn't install it on a machine you can't afford to "lose".

Just thought you should know, in case the hype might have brushed anyone's common sense aside. Honestly, it's a web browser. It's the WEB. Not a big deal really. Funny how so many around here refuse to upgrade to what is now a two year old flight sim product (i.e. FSX) despite all the new features, yet when it comes to yet another browser it seems like everyone wants it, before it's even finished!!

Mark

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (markll @ Sep 3 2008, 11:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Funny how so many around here refuse to upgrade to what is now a two year old flight sim product (i.e. FSX) despite all the new features, yet when it comes to yet another browser it seems like everyone wants it, before it's even finished!!
Mark

I guess that's because everyone is looking to see if they prefer it to Firefox or IE, and Chrome doesn't require people to spend thousands of dollars just to get it working better than the previous release..

[Charl]

Haha always good to wind up a little flightsim controversy, no matter the topic eh?
Actually...I have a tiny little warning bell pinging in the subconscience here.
If you were ever disturbed by the Microsoft juggernaut and it's monopolistic business model...
Under the mountains in the Sierra Nevada, in Silicone Valley, in Bermuda, and other far flung locations, there lurk vast server farms under the Google mantle, quietly sucking in the entire reservoir of human knowledge and experience.
Operating as huge networked "cloud-computers" they are able to feed you all the knowledge you would ever need, ranked by ...who knows what critera?
Now there is a browser, that can mesh perfectly with the cloud, and gently steer your online experience even further along the path of ...who knows?
It's a potentially chilling prospect - you would never know exactly how much Big Brother is guiding your total online experience, in our Brave New World.
I hope Firefox stays independent, and meets the challenge.

[Timmo]

Indeed- That has always been the counter argument to using Google stuff (or more like the counter oxymoron?)- The 'alternative' is becoming the mainstream and so negating the very reason for using it.

baby steps though.....at least it is open source? Googles 'beta' releases aren't usually what one usually considers 'beta' (i.e. buggy, unstable, not worth the hassle)......they are, in my experience, always stable and fully featured...they just need a bit of feedback to tidy things up

It reminds me of two things: The bit on Star Wars episode 3 (?) where they go to the library to look for a star system. They cant find it in the library so the reasoning of the library droid/system is 'If it doesn't exist in the Library, It doesn't exist'

This, of course, is similar to the ideas raised in Orwells novel:1984- The state had complete control over the media, including the ability to re-write books, news papers etc to fit their current version of events. The main characters job, at the Ministry of Truth, was to ensure that any differences between 'reality' and the media were resolved: not in the usual way of fitting the newspaper around reality (i.e. what actually happened) but by creating a new 'reality' by changing the newspaper. Whoever controls the past controls the future. Whoever controls the present, controls the past.

There are similar situations, although perhaps not as 'doomsday' as the book, in life today: Media organisations will of course not focus on stories that are not in their clients interest (i.e. advertising dollars)...there is a conflict of interest there.

[Q300]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Sep 4 2008, 08:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I guess that's because everyone is looking to see if they prefer it to Firefox or IE, and Chrome doesn't require people to spend thousands of dollars just to get it working better than the previous release..

And because it dosent need a bloody monsta rig to run it

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Q300 @ Sep 4 2008, 09:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And because it dosent need a bloody monsta rig to run it

That's what I mean
Seems wrong to compare this to the FS9/FSX debate, but oh well

[NZ255]

Full article here

Google backs down over browser amid privacy concerns

Google has made an embarrassing backdown after it was revealed the company would have rights to any information entered into websites by people using its new internet browser.

A day after the Google Chrome browser was released, a controversial clause in its "End User License Agreement" (EULA) has been removed following concerns it breached people's privacy and copyright.

Users who downloaded the free browser yesterday were asked to agree to a clause that gave Google a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly, perform, publicly display and distribute" any information they typed into a website.

[markll]

QUOTE (NZ255 @ Sep 5 2008, 08:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

A day after the Google Chrome browser was released, a controversial clause in its "End User License Agreement" (EULA) has been removed following concerns it breached people's privacy and copyright.

Heh - typical Google.

Also, Computerworld has an article on Chrome that talks about there being known security defects in Chrome already

The article is here

Mark

[Q300]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Sep 4 2008, 10:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's what I mean
Seems wrong to compare this to the FS9/FSX debate, but oh well

Haha sory Tom dident read your post properley