In a somewhat unusual move, the Google team decided today to shift its Internet browser, Chrome, out of beta stage, just a hundred days after its debut and shortly after the latest updates of competing browsers such as Opera Browser and Mozilla Firefox.
Google, which has sometimes been criticized for its tendency to leave many of its products in beta stage even when they are already stable and highly reliable, hopes the announcement will help the lightweight browser gain some market share, currently around the 1 percent mark.
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Read more at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
Out of beta already? That's pretty fast for Google. Usually the "beta" tag is permanent for their products.
Yeah, they use a custom JavaScript engine called "V8" that is supposed to be lightning fast. But it's not something that has had a lot of testing on a large scale, so I wouldn't be surprised if it had a lot of bugs.
My biggest question is: Have they improved the security of their browser? There are a lot of privacy and security tweaks that are available in most browsers that the first verison of Chrome didn't have.
DL it and it is fast and can comment ok on here.
I just updated. Way faster! Videos also play with more stability and speed as well. Feels pretty good.
I don't find too many options regarding security. What I really like is its speed.
Yeah, that's a bit of a problem - Chrome was a bit of a mixed bag for security. They got the architecture right, but the UI for handling security needed work.
Good to hear it's fast, though. That, plus I liked the way you could detach and reattach tabs.
I had it for a while when it was in beta. It wasn't any faster than Opera (my current browser), and when it came to skinning...Chrome was undependable. That current blue folder look is ugly. I played around with some of the skinning options for Chrome, but they would crash, and anytime there were new skins available, I had to uninstall Chrome and reinstall in order to make the new skin function. Too much of a hassle. Opera takes whatever Windowblind I happen to be using at the time with no problems.Of course, I still have to have IE for work applications and for the occasional website that requires it, but for all my "fun time" on the net, I use Opera.
Does it spy at you like their search mashine does?
They've got more than their search engine at work on your dossier. The Google Analytics stuff is just creepy, and getting darned near as ubiquitous as doubleclick.net tracking cookies. We really need a Digital Millenium User Rights Act that makes privacy the default and requires explicit, well-informed opt-in when organizations want to store user info and track their behavior. We mostly have to opt-out now, and that doesn't always work as well as you might hope.
sad to say i dropped it. when i saw that the browser didnt have a cool tool bar only tabs..i was immediately turned off by it. back to FF and opera!.. perhaps within a year or two, ill return to chrome, not until then
Whoopeee! Can I be the first in line not to use it? Pretty please?
i don't see why not . i tried it ,it kept losing all my bookmarks and i couldn't use the forums at wc at all back to ff for now
Meh
You might not be the first. From the first time I saw a browser created by the biggest online advertising company I was suspicious and have stayed well away from it
I've got mixed feelings on this. As somebody who does a bit of web development, it is nice to see how many visitors you're getting, what browsers they're using so you know what to design for, etc.
Not necessarily. Right now, Chrome is the only browser that compiles JavaScript, although I think Firefox has plans to compile JavaScript in the next major version.
Keep in mind, JavaScript is not Java. Java already uses a JIT compiler, but JavaScript never has.
yah it is open source and for earlier versions there had already been some spinoffs which removed all the "spying" stuff (and hopefully didn't add new one hehe)
I like it, and have been using it since it came out. It really needs an advert blocking tool though, Vibrant Media Intellitxt is driving my mad - that's the one that double underlines a load of words and pops up a video if your mouse happens to go near one of them.
I did find out that you can kill flash from Chrome's task manager (shift + esc), which is help with some adverts.
Everything is all right. But, unfortunately there is no version of Chrome for Linux. An open source browser, but not for Linux – that’s quite surprising.
No, I meant what I said. It's a direct compile to machine code. Starting at 24:34 in the video I linked to, they explain it.
It's true. Why are you surprised? Google has been a big player in Open Source with their Summer of Code projects and open APIs.
They are working on it. Already parts of Chromium are ported, and they are on track to make the entire browser available.
That's better. In Linux we face a problem with Java plug-ins. 64-bit browser don't recognize 32-bit plug-ins. 64-bit plug-ins is not available from SUN. But, I think as it has its own compiler with it, it won't create any problem regarding Java.
Just found the google site which states that "Google Chrome is built with open source code from Chromium". They are trying to build Chromium-based browser on Linux.
Alas, that's an issue in Windows as well. I ended up dumping 64 bit Java and going totally 32 bit Java because of of that issue.
BTW, V8 is just JavaScript. It is not Java. You still need a virtual machine to run Java.
JavaScript is not Java. Java is not JavaScript.
To be more precise, what we commonly call "JavaScript" is really ECMAScript, and is a totally different language than Java.
That's cos no-one actually uses Linux for anything other than to say they do.
Jafo runs and hides from the Geek-Squad for whom Torvalds is GOD ....
Exactly. I should have noticed that you were taking about Java Scripts.
32-bit browser never supports 64-bit plug-ins. Similarly, 64-bit browser never supports 32-bit plug-ins. This is the general rule for every OS - Windows, UNIX, or, any UNIX-like OSes.
To use 64-bit browser with 32-bit plug-ins, we need to install "nspluginwrapper" in Linux. But, I don't know about any such plug-in for Windows.
But, "nspluginwrapper" is not compatible with Java plug-ins. So, even after installing "nspluginwrapper" the problem continues with Java.
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