Chrome, a browser from Google!

Basically Google are releasing a browser based on WebKit. It’s due for release under windows tomorrow. They have a cool comic promoting it that you can read here. The comic promotes some interesting idea’s and I really look forward to trying this one out.

It’s an interesting move, is there space in the market for yet another browser? I don’t look forward to yet another browser to test that for sure. None the less, it is quite an interesting move by Google and I look forward to seeing how it develops.

There is loads of coverage on this building up fast. Here are links to some good stuff;

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4 Responses to “Chrome, a browser from Google!”

  1. Georgi Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Try out this one: http://goit-postal.blogspot.com/2008/09/chrome-first-little-test-with-highly.html - the resumee is that Google luanches it for its own apps, because the browser is lightning fast on pages that massively user Javascript and AJAX.

  2. Dougal Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    A bit of a self plug there Georgi! But yeah, your right its designed to be lightening fast at Ajax/JavaScript applications. Not JUST Google’s app though, but they are of course thinking of their own work.

  3. Mike R Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    i downloaded google chrome. I launched the browser,and I get an application initialization error. I am using XP Pro SP2. This is horrible on the day of the release. Even though it is beta, it should work as promised.

  4. Dougal Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Of course you are right Mike. However this is exactly the purpose of a Beta to test it on as many systems as possible. You are the first person I’ve heard from to have a problem so there must be something specific with your set-up that causes the problem.

    I don’t think Google made any promises that it would work on every single computer. I also am in XP Pro with SP2.

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