Google Chrome

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mine will not download properly so not sure it's the best still needs a bit of tweaking with the errors on some files

this is another good product from google also they build this when we open every each tab to begun in new process this is bit fast than firefox but they have to add some addons like enable IDM on this browser because every country not using fast internet connections so at the moment interface is ok but try to improve browser fast !!!

chrome is very good

i wish it integrate with download managers and other programes. but i love the way it looks

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Hopefully they release a great plug-in/extension API. With the addition of a few plug-ins like those I use in Firefox and I'll switch browsers wholesale. This Chrome appears to really be an improvement so far.

On your point "A new JavaScript engine built from the ground up for speed"... I'm a skeptic of company released benchmarks and also of benchmark test numbers, preferring to see how things perform "live and in person" on my system. I ran the "wolfenstein-like" environment app on Chrome versus Firefox 3.0x. Chrome did 32fps while Firefox did 6fps. (the steps on how to run the test for yourself are posted at www.chromevoice.com). I'm convinced now that Chrome is faster than my current version of Firefox. We'll see what Firefox 3.1 brings. Oh yeah, there's one more thing my test showed. While running that app in one tab, I opened another tab in Firefox to try to do some work. Oh boy, Firefox was sluggish and even hung at one point. Did the same in Chrome and I had no issues. I'm convinced. I just wish that Roboform and other plugins would come online for Chrome so I can use it full time. Michael Adams www.chromevoice.com

Chrome installs itself into each users PROFILE instead of into Program Files, which means you have to install it for each user, meaning 75MB of disk space PER USER, in addition to each users profile data. And it refuses to save passwords for Yahoo, MSN, and Hotmail. But it will save it for Gmail, imagine that

Looks good so far, but a lack of Adblock is an issue. Discussion forum at http://wearechrome.com

Tried Google Chrome. Really a great browser but it can't compare to firefox 3.1 nightly plus tracemonkey

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Although it worked well. When I used Winrar to unrar a file and set winrsr to background it totally stopped working. Suggesting that Chrome was utilising all the background processor time. To be fair I did have IE and firefox open at the same time. I will give it a try on it's own at a later time. Opera still best I'd say.

it is a great browser, but why can't i log on to web sites like facebook something like that, it generates an error message

cool, type about:internets in the addressbar and see for youself thanks hostintruder :)

Still using FF3 because firebug for my coding and for my other ff extensions. I’m just using chrome on google websites. and gmail is always open on my chrome, at least that way its consuming less memory and cpu process. Go Google! :)

I just tried Google Chrome on my web-based project and am glad that it works very well, even on the JavaScript- and AJAX-intensive pages. Waiting for the Linux and Mac versions :)

I like google chrome because it's so fast compared to other browsers, it must be that V8 java based engine that makes it so smooth.

hi, i just downloaded and installed google chrome today. as i wouldn't expect differently it is an excelent program. what i'm missing is an option to display google page rank. i've googled around some, but for now it seems i'll have to wait for google to come up with some kind of plugin for that.

It seems like companies that want to be the platform for Desktop Web Applications need to implement a fast JavaScript engine. <a href="http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/09/chrome-is-a-desktop-web-application-platform/">http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/09/chrome-is-a-desktop-web-application-platform/</a> Ben...

hello , i hope too , me too i am a fanboy of Google, Google Chrome has impressed us,nothing to say about that. By the way, i a am a blogger too and i have a more write a more detail review on Google Chrome, just take a look on my blog >> http://hostintruder.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/google-chrome-superpower-browser/ Keep it up man !

Google, sweet Google. No Mac version? You torture me.

Its about making the web a platform not another browser. Gears is the killer app to make the web an experience to compete with the desktop. I think Chrome will be a very, very big deal.

So far I have noticed that each tab reserve over 20 Mb, which guarantees the embedded objects prompt opening. In general promotes use of end-user very comfortable. You can search directly from the address bar. Although, I have noticed some compatibility problems with JavaScript, such as the window.opener object (be careful to repeat the error with Microsoft IE 7). Great contribution of the Code Inspector Tool. It requires attention to the ortographic control. Congratulations to the Google Team! Yours sincerely! Jean Machuca Software Architect IT Consultant

http://www.google.com/chrome Here is the download link

Any word yet on the use of extensions with chrome. I like the idea of a faster browser but I do also enjoy some of the FF extensions that I use.

its just safari with google gears lets just hope they arent going to get on the web standards committee like nokia and their series 60 browser so that they can restrict development of proper implementation of web standards over features that tie people to their other products get with it, its a browser for getting you to buy ad space, thats googles reason for everything. I will use if it makes it easier to use google services, I wont be using it for much else, Firefox works, Flock implemented all the homepagey goodness this new chrome product promises, just get that add google gears and cant really see much difference

When is it supposed to be released for Mac?

Hey Ed. It's not downloadable yet.

Download link, please?

BTW English time is currently BST, which is GMT+1, 'cus of the summer day light saving rule. May be the posting should have been done as UTC to keep the xenophobes happy :)

For those complaining about who invented the internet/www or whatever. Wiki: 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 10/29/69: ARPANET was created(by the US), which evolved into the internet 1993: W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) created in the USA(at MIT) with the help of DARPA and Tim Berners-Lee. It has since spread worldwide and is the reason the WWW is how it is today. The internet is a global project, and will continue to grow globally and decentralize. http://blogs.computerworld.com/u_s_no_longer_global_internet_hub For those who hate Americans for no reason, You are arrogant and possibly ignorant. For Americans who hate others simply because they are not American, the above comment applies. Face it, without the global support and contributions, the internet and the WWW would not be where it is today. Whether the US created the internet or Europe the WWW, it all remains the same that one nation alone could not have done this. Everyone just get off your high horses and accept the fact that we may be different, but we all contribute. Arrogance and ignorance will get you nowhere.

"Oh, and the Internet was developed in Europe, not the USA! Sorry to burst your bubble!" Peter: Sorry to burst your bubble but the World Wide Web (WWW) was initially developed at CERN in Europe. Not the Internet. The early Internet was completely developed in the US. It started life at DARPA (The US Army Defense Advanced Research Project) and was intially called ARPAnet. The Internet is based on the IP protocol developed by people like Vincent Cerf et.al. Look it up.

You're all right, TCP/IP was invented for ARPANET, while Tim Berners-Lee developed the http protocol at CERN. The internet wouldn't exist without either. Now stop bitching. I'm with VVPN, the people most likely to try / use Chrome are probably people already using FF, removing market share from FF and failing to diversity the browser market. Does have some very compelling design points. Still think it looks ugly :-)

USA developed internet Europe developed WWW it's an historic fact.

...blip...blip...blip Dearest Peter: Think Europeans developed the "internet?" Just do a quick search for "DARPA" and/or "ARPANET". On behalf of the USA, "You're welcome...again." Dearest other time format professors submitting comments: Learn what you're talking about before making an a$$ of yourself by insulting others by stating even further incorrect time factoids. With regards to Chrome...cool new toy perhaps, but just one more browser developers must bust their humps to cross-browser compatibility-ize for. Hooray.

Google chrome launch press released announced its time to launch to find more click http://betterlife.demostagingserver.info/2008/09/02/google-chrome-will-be-launched-at-today-at-1100-am-pacific-daylight-time/

To Robbie: Actually, GMT is the OFFICIAL time that the rest of the world's time is based on...and if it wasn't for 'Jolly Old England' there wouldn't be a USA...! Oh, and the Internet was developed in Europe, not the USA! Sorry to burst your bubble! And yes, I am English (well, South African actually, but living in England)

Another browser that will do exactly the same thing as every other browser. maybe it will be half a millisecond faster then other browsers... intense...

Cynic, As people, all we need is food and shelter. EVERYTHING else is an unnecessary luxury. Another browser, another automobile, another computer manufacturer, another synthetic food maker... we don't need any of it. Questioning the need for another browser is a waste of bits. Why don't you instead go into you neighborhood and work on creating a sustainable community?

I'm not sure this new offering is terribly helpful. The browser space is already crowded with mulitple offerings, all of which need to be independently developed and tested in order to assure that requirements are met and quality is up-to-snuff. Another minimally-differentiated browser platform mostly based on a separate standard (webkit) is just a new headache.

When will be Chrome released ???

When will the Mac-subculture get Chrome?

It is interesting how people are easy to proclaim people as less intelligent based on their way of talking (typing?) -- I guess it's time for an offtopic rant. Would it make me less intelligent if I had Texas accent in real life, as opposed to "standard" American? Does it make me less intelligent just because I don't speak clean English since I am not a native speaker? Same thing here. Shortening words does not matter. That's not the only thing. There were other reasons for insulting others. Like, "you have no idea how to use a good browser anyway". What do you know? Perhaps he does, perhaps he doesn't. Don't make assumptions. Now back on topic. I can't wait to see Google Chrome, looks like a new era for web developers will now arrive. New JS engine, more support for Webkit... good days are coming. Thanks Google!

here is the Chrome Comic book: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html And a reminder, if you have something important to say, dont shorten your words (like please to plz), intellegent people will immediately ignore you!

Actually Eastern is GMT-5 So it would be 1pm

anyway this looks like a wonderful idea, i love the sandboxing and the way it blocks popups especially, i also like the multi process thing as i find crashing a big problem in firefox =) im really excited

finally, we can expect some real browser features. its time we had a browser make over and glad it came from google.

The beta release date for the Windows version is released on 18:00 GMT, September 2, 2008 and Mac OS X and Linux versions are said to follow soon

Google.com/chrome but it's not out yet

Hi, plz give the url for downloading google chrome

Totaly looking forward to it. Since ie has great rendering issues and FF is just way to fakin bloaty and doesnt handle memory leaks good (even tho they said ff3 would) ive been using ff for 2 reasons render engine and firebug. if chrome will have a proper rendering and good dom/js debug plugins... also the thing i like is js from 1 page doesnt lock entire browser wooot <33 also did i get it right rendering of the page is diferent thread than js execution? woot even more. Also the simplistic look and the idea they want a browser to NOT getting in ur way. well i have high hopes... maybe finaly a decent browser (also opera simply lacks of everything)

Only with this software would there be anything new to the browsing of the web: http://www.cooliris.com But lets see... i wonder how the crash rate will be, when taking incount the millions of site which are writtin in a bad way...

I think it's a good thing. To modify Alan Kay's famous quote a bit: "People who are really serious about the Internet should make their own web browser".

I want to download your browser quickly.

@BIGMOS I agree (although perhaps I would have chosen a better descriptive). But there are plenty of alternatives to IE already, why another?

Anyone knows where to download this thing? I don't have a clue

Conspiracy club is busy as ever Mattastic, the pessimistic approach is normally the right one in this capitalist society. All I can say is this had better render 100% standards compliant or I'll scream :)

Where to click for download ?!?

It's ugly!

Fantastic.... can't wait to give it a go...

Linux took the share out of Sun instead of beating Microsoft. I sincerely hope that Chrome does not start killing Firefox. I love Firefox. After all it is the one that stood upto IE. Now when they are getting successful all the opportunists are starting to come along (Safari, Chrome and now maybe Sun will come up with its own browser). Who cares about where the position of the tabs are? Who cares about you create multiple processes (hope tab launching will not take forever. I tend to open 20 tabs or more) or single process (Great if the crash is limited to a tab). One more browser to support for the web applications :(.

Concerning the whole extension issue, the question is about the UI framework. Will they use a new technology, have their implementation of XUL...? If anybody knows anything, please tell us.

i would love to test it... Its a great news

And how long will this be in beta? They can't even get Google Docs out of beta and thats been around for ages.

Is no one sceptical about this? Why do we need yet another browser? are there not enough that do pretty much everything required? The functions they list are all decoration to me and certainly wouldn't improve my productivity. The only thing that I have yet to encounter is the incognito mode, although there are plugins that do this for FF I have not had need for it yet. Googles take over continues, and people are lapping it up.

Unfortunately, Geen, I would be very surprised if FF extensions worked directly with it as it's based on webkit and not gecko (although they say they used both). If anyone has insight, I agree that this is the most important piece of info: it's basically what made Firefox what it is.

Cant wait till its released and available for download. Have always loved Google products...for their simple yet powerful nature.

Its very interesting that Google has decided to take on a project like this. They obviously have such an interest in how people access the web, it was only a matter of time before they took things into their own hands. It is going to be very interesting to see how this pans out. Google Chrome browser Screenshots http://www.tonesall.com/computers-internet/google-chrome-screenshots.html

Mark my words... If this thing is capable of combining Firefox extensions (At least the most common ones) and WebKit then brace yourselves, this is going to be the new kid on the block... There is no way that gecko can compete with webkit performance wise...

The only important question is: will there be an extension framework like in Firefox or (much better, though very unlikely) will the Firefox extensions work with it?

i guess firefox is good enough, i dont need another browser, it looks similar to opera mostly anyways.

Strange, Richard, that your firefox 3 fails. Sounds like a problem with your OS and not firefox. Forefox runs like a champ on all my PCs and all users I've ever run into. Because the web browser is such an important application, I think it is definitely healthy to have lots of choices and google do come out with some pretty cool approaches.

I'll give the new browser a try. Why not? Honestly I'll try anything new that's not Microsoft. For the forseeable future MS will ALWAYS have the most popular browser simply because it comes with windows and the less technical crowd will not even try to download another browser. I'm for anything that will cut in to Microsoft's lead and drive a little more innovation.

The google chrome is realsed and I am really impressed by comic version of it as you can find it here http://betterlife.demostagingserver.info/2008/09/02/google-has-launched-google-chrome-browser I believe it will start another war of browser but it is different as it is displayed on www.newstickle.com breaking news section

tabs above address bar? not so distinct interface, cause opera did that since years ago. and the most visited list is obviously a clone of Opera Speed Dial

I bet it will be just as, if not more, safe than FireFox. Now that Google has Michał Zalewski as a security information engineer.

yeah this google browser rock the whole world, its really amazing. simply awesome...... thumbs up to google

I don't like the design, the only design and browser I enjoy is mozilla, I'll give google browser a try but I doubt I'll be switching.

IE has always been a low memory hog and I never yse it. Am using Mozilla now, and will definitely give chrome a look/

Well although im upset that a linux version HAS NOT been made yet. Google implements a free sandbox mode (zonealarm selling for 30ish). Which means it will be very safe. light browser, faster loading for everything, secure, and "Google" I will be testing this, unfor. on windows...

my experience with firefox 3 was the same so IE has been the only choice

Is that for Window only??

sounds like IE8

Will the new browser help developers to check for errors like plugins installed on firefox (e.g. firebug)?

I'll definitely try Chrome; I'm always open to something new and creative. It's amusing, though, to see people falling over themselves to adopt Google's latest effort. People have given Google their e-mail, their search, their docs, their books, and now their browser. In ten years, when Google occupies the position Microsoft holds today - will Google be "the evil empire?" Google definitely has an agenda, here; it's great that they can further than agenda while providing something valuable, and it's great that furthering their agenda still lets them make this an open-source project. Just make sure you understand and accept their agenda - just as you would if you chose to use IE.

I to have never liked using IE and Firefox has always been a great browser for me. However, if Google is coming out with a browser. My guess is it will probably kick butt! . . . Since Google has already cracked the search engine platform! Google will soon be in charge of everything!!

I love how a company like Google can accidentally release a project. Hehe :)

I wonder if this is as safe to use as FireFox, hopefully it will be, but until we find out more, this isn't on the top of my list

I have never liked IE in any form and have used Firefox for as long as they have been out, however, after loading the latest version (3) it ceased to work!. I tried reloading, I tried tried everything I could and I had to go back to a previous version in order to get back on the internet. This looks good and I will try it. If it works, I will have a new browser!