Googles new browser!

[Joeman]

Google just made a public release of their own browser. I never would have thought google would create their own browser. I couldn't pass up something like that. I like firefox which is the best thing against ie8, but now a new browser from google called google chrome is a new competition against ie8. It was just released. I am very curious to see how it stacks up. Right now I am using it and it seems good so far.

http://www.google.com/chrome

it is even on googles main page ;) It is still in beta

[tossy]

Hey, that great news!

[PeejAvery]

It is very fast, clean, and super simplistic. Unfortunately, it, along with Safari 3 for Windows, skips over rendering some pages JavaScript.

[dglienna]

the task manager feature looks pretty nice, but without js support, I'll wait. I'm testing IE8 Beta right now, and it's looking pretty nice.

[HanneSThEGreaT]

http://reddevnews.com/news/print.aspx?editorialsid=10170

[Joeman]

No need to worry about bugs since google is in beta stage. It will probably get taking cared of. Also is is open source and buffer overflows are simple to fix. I still know of an ie7 bug. In Ie7 when using the fso with javascript, you can use it to make a malware downloader. I haven't tested it for ie8 or any other browser. The reason the threat exist is because microsoft says it is a rights problem and not a security problem or something of that nature. I already had some thought chrome came from firefox, but not safari. Somethings like clear cache is just too similiar not to be from firefox. I do like the tabs abit better. Chrome does put you into the webpage you are viewing alot better than firefox. I think chrome is pretty nice, but of course firefox is more advance with plugins and changing appearances to mimic even ie7 and ie8 down to the barebone. You can even confuse yourself sometimes if you didn't have the firefox icon at the upper left to tell you if it is ie or firefox.


the task manager feature looks pretty nice, but without js support, I'll wait. I'm testing IE8 Beta right now, and it's looking pretty nice.


If you are are talking about javascript, Chrome has javascript support. Just click this link and it will display a messagebox saying you have javascript support.

http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/jscript.html

Maybe it isn't foolproof yet, but remember beta means as a test run ;)

Anyways I will be keeping an eye on chrome and checking up on it. Now I am going to compile firefox 3 on windows... hopefully it will be easy.

[olivthill]

I read an interesting article from Peter Svensson saying:
Chrome was designed to improve on the way other browsers handle JavaScript
[...]
Flash is a tremendous resource hog
[...]
When playing a YouTube video, Firefox 3 took up 95 percent of the CPU time on a three-year old laptop running Windows XP.
Chrome came in at 60 percent — still too much. Especially since Google owns YouTube! You'd think it could make its browser work well with that site in particular.
Internet Explorer barely broke a sweat, taking up just a few percent.

(source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_hi_te/tec_tech_test_google_chrome)I have heard Chrome is based on Safari. Unfortunately, it seems Safari does not show an alpha letter with the following line (that's what I've been told by visitors of a page I wrote about the Greek alphabet).<font face=Symbol>a</font>Can someone test this line for me with Chrome? Thanks in advance.

[PeejAvery]

I have heard Chrome is based on Safari.
Not Safari, but WebKit (http://webkit.org/). Safari, too, is based on WebKit.

[Joeman]

<font face=Symbol>a</font>


Firefox wrote out an english letter 'a', chrome wrote out 'a' in greek and ie7 did the same as chrome. So firefox didn't work? Well it is not like I need that daily :)

[olivthill]

Thanks for the test!

[dglienna]

I meant that you could see the memory resources used for each tab in Chrome. Haven't seen that in other browsers. It'd be nice do document a rougue page.

[Joeman]

oh yeah.. That is pretty nice. Also I do find chrome to load better non-cached and cached on my computer. Also the memory footprint after loading up ie7, firefox, chrome seems to take about the same resources in memory individually. Chrome seems to load faster the ie7, but I haven't done extensive test.