Google Chrome.

**Demosthenes** · 2008-09-02 01:22

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

**Lordwafik** · 2008-09-02 01:27

Interesting

**6souls** · 2008-09-02 01:37

i stopped reading @ page 14. 38 pages of this stuff is a bit much to go through at this time. i'll read the rest tomorrow.

**Zosi** · 2008-09-02 01:45

Saw it earlier before they had the official page up, I'm very interested.

Some points of interest.

WebKit is going to be getting a LOT of work. This is great for Safari users, as well as KHTML-based browsers if they can port the changes easily. It was by no means unusable before, but Gecko/mshtml were much more compatible in general. If Google's numbers on compatibility are to be believed, they've made huge strides in this regard.

V8 (Javascript VM) has a ton of potential. Very few places know Javascript like Google does, and they have a lot of experience optimizing dynamic languages in general. They know what they're doing, and they know how to do it. Best of all, the whole engine is open source, so other browsers will be free to adopt it if it's a home run.

The combination of the two of these may result in more browsers and programs springing up that use WebKit/V8. Gecko is popular because it's well-supported, not because it's a joy to program with. WebKit is a lot more developer-friendly, and we could see a LOT more use both in the embedded world and in desktop apps. Edit: WebKit is also included as part of QT4, which means that every application that uses QT4's WebKit support will benefit from Google's code.

The tabs above the address bar and such make sense. The address in the address bar is unique to the tab that has focus, and so are the buttons. If you click the big red stop button, it doesn't stop all of your tabs, same for reload, same for home. We're almost all used to tabs being only the page in question, but it really does make sense, and I think people who haven't used tabs yet will "get" how they work much better if exposed to the kind of interface Google proposes.

The multi-process stuff is good. With how much CPU and memory current web apps can potentially use, it's important to have good isolation and control over resource usage. Process overhead is an issue, but there's overhead whether you use processes, threads or something more exotic. The performance increases from being able to take advantage of hyperthreading and dual-core CPUs will more than make up for any kind of overhead increase.

Google Gears integration is just a way for them to implement the WHATWG proposed standards early. It's good stuff, all browsers will have it eventually.

Incognito is the same as IE8's privacy stuff, Omnibox is Awesomebar with a slightly different formula. Speed Dial is a slightly modified version of what Opera does. Unique windows for web apps is the same as Mozilla Prism.

**Goddess** · 2008-09-02 07:07

That is all freakin' amazing. I read through all of it, and I get how all of this is relative to my experience. It's pretty nice.

**octopus** · 2008-09-02 07:15

While I'm glad there's more competition, I don't think I'll switch - I love my Firefox plugins too much.

**Demosthenes** · 2008-09-02 07:20

some people use more than one browser.

**Ikith** · 2008-09-02 07:55

I'm sort of afraid google will put their ads on this however at the same time its open source so someone can go back in remove them and recompile etc... This will be interesting to see... Maybe next a tag based email client? Like google web mail + thunderbird?

**Myst** · 2008-09-02 08:21

rofl @ incognito mode

**Delekii** · 2008-09-02 08:33

Originally Posted by Demosthenes

some people use more than one browser.

Im sure plugins will be available for chrome as well. In fact, it would be amazingly crazy if they didnt some how make current plugins for firefox compatible with chrome, since the target audience is basically the same.

And yeah, I laughed when they said "here is incognito mode... so you can buy presents!"

when did "buy presents" become synonymous with "look at porn"?

**Mizango** · 2008-09-02 08:48

Originally Posted by Demosthenes

some people use more than one browser.

/

I personally use FF, Opera and Safari and look forward to using Chrome. I heard about it a few months ago but its nice to see them going public with it now. Very intriguing indeed.

I am going to throw it on one of my Linux boxes and have some fun with it, I want to see what that puppy can do.

Originally Posted by Delekii

And yeah, I laughed when they said "here is incognito mode... so you can buy presents!"

when did "buy presents" become synonymous with "look at porn"?

I think he meant "Give presents", as in gifts to your hand and your handy cum rag maybe lol? I don't know, I'm reaching here....

**Lordwafik** · 2008-09-02 09:06

Originally Posted by Delekii

Im sure plugins will be available for chrome as well. In fact, it would be amazingly crazy if they didnt some how make current plugins for firefox compatible with chrome, since the target audience is basically the same.

And yeah, I laughed when they said "here is incognito mode... so you can buy presents!"

when did "buy presents" become synonymous with "look at porn"?

Kind of like FFXI rmt lingo.

Ask a 2005 RNG "Hey I never see you farming, how do you get so much gil?"
They will always reply "Oh I garden ~^.^~"

**Stiker** · 2008-09-02 09:48

Read through it all, looks very interesting. I'll definitely give it a try and see how it works. Sounds like something I might use to browse at work since I don't have many plugins at all loaded on my work laptop for Firefox.

EDIT: Holy shit this apparently comes out today: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...n-browser.html

**Correction** · 2008-09-02 09:56

It'll be funny when the plugin profiler helps the until-then clueless users finally realize just how bad Flash is for your browser.

**Akucaen** · 2008-09-02 10:07

I just want to know if adblock and noscript will somehow get ported to it. :/ I'll never give firefox up unless I can't see ads on shit sites.

**Delekii** · 2008-09-02 10:28

Originally Posted by Akucaen

I just want to know if adblock and noscript will somehow get ported to it. :/ I'll never give firefox up unless I can't see ads on shit sites.

Of course they will. Google is an incredibly smart company - one of the smartest on the planet. I have no doubt that they understand that these kind of features are not an option but necessary these days - in this case because the comic actually says so.

**Zosi** · 2008-09-02 10:33

There's a plugin API, and AdBlock and NoScript are both open source projects. I'd say it's pretty likely that there's a port sooner rather than later.

**Dezzimal** · 2008-09-02 14:40

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/6510/chromees5.jpg

I'm moderately impressed.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5...cognitotn8.jpg

Porn time.

FedeFede · 2008-09-02 14:45

Somehow on Chrome my mouse pad will only scroll down and not up, which is kinda the main annoying thing for me atm, but other than that it looks cool.

Protip: you can enable the home page button in the options.

**Tricen** · 2008-09-02 14:47

So for dumb people, this = ?

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