Google chrome : New open source browser

[mmarif4u]

Does any body heard about Google new open source browser.
Still not available for Linux, is under development.

Link to Google chrome

[DenverD]

mmarif4u wrote:
> Still not available for Linux, is under development.

we can show interest in Google Chrome *for linux* by signing up to
receive an email when released..

just guessing, but if 10 million folks sign up to get that mail it
_might_ cause Google to throw more hackers at the project, and
release sooner..

sign up: http://gears.google.com/chrome/intl/en/linux.html?hl=en

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[mmarif4u]

Thanks DenverD for the link to subscribe.

[Chrysantine]

I suggest you read the EULA part 11. really, really carefully.

[bbqau]

I tried it earlier on my windows partition, its horrible. Just a stripped down IE with a crappy skin. Google monopolises the internet enough as is, the last thing I will ever do is use their browser to, keep it even and support firefox and opera

[Prexy]

I'm using it now, in vbox. It's ok. Not too pretty though.

[kgroneman]

Originally Posted by Chrysantine

I suggest you read the EULA part 11. really, really carefully.

Wow. You use it, they own you.

[ken_yap]

Just tried it on XP. Very fast, as everybody noticed. GUI rather plain at the moment, but that's really not the point. It's only beta after all.

I suggest that people who want to knock it at least read the comic book version of the design document explaining the major goals of Chrome before writing it off as a copycat of anything. If they achieve the goals they have set for themselves, it will be one awesome browser that will improve the Internet for everybody.

No more killing the whole browser because Flash hung in one tab, and losing that banking session. No more malware in one tab stealing info from another tab (they are in separate processes, also good for multi-core CPUs). You can even detach tabs to get a new window and reattach it later. Less fragmentation of memory, kill a tab, every byte of that tab goes back to the OS. Incognito mode where history is not saved, so no one can trawl through your history later and find that you shopped for a birthday present. Fast Webkit rendering engine. Fast V8 Javascript engine, approaching native code speed in some cases. Open source, BSD style license so other browsers and projects (yes even M$) can reuse as much as they like. And more I can't remember off the top of my head. The comic narrative is very readable and entertaining.

[rs3york]

Sounds pretty interesting. Looks like WebKit really is legit now: Konqueror, Epiphany, Safari, Google Chrome, smartphones (Andriod, iPhone)...

I don't know how excited I am for a linux version only because WebKit already has at least 3 linux implementations. But the more the marrier I suppose. It's always good to have cross-platform software.

Thanks for pointing this out.

[ken_yap]

Originally Posted by DenverD

mmarif4u wrote:
> Still not available for Linux, is under development.

we can show interest in Google Chrome *for linux* by signing up to
receive an email when released..

just guessing, but if 10 million folks sign up to get that mail it
_might_ cause Google to throw more hackers at the project, and
release sooner..

sign up: Google Chrome

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More likely that substantial progress on that front will be made by intrepid developers taking the code base and doing builds and feeding back to the Chrome team. Already I've seen blog entries by people who have stuck their toes into the water.