The browser-bearing world was atwitter yesterday with the announcement of Google’s Chrome browser. Just about overnight, they’ve managed to convince hordes of people that Chrome is the way to browse on your PC. Next step? They’re taking it mobile.
According to an interview with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the two projects will start working together more closely now that both are approached 1.0 releases, with the Android browser adopting much of Chrome’s inner workings. He also expects the mobile browser to pick up a new name to indicate the relation to it’s bigger, full-blown browsin’ brother.
Any other mobile carriers launching besides T-mobile this year?
If you haven’t already, check your TiVo for yesterday(Tuesday)’s Attack of the Show on G4, they went over Chrome and why it isn’t ready yet.
Mainly because the plugin support isn’t there. No firebug == unusable.
1) Other than web developers, no one cares about firebug.
2) Firefox only *really* works when you get rid of all but a few add-ons.
3) It won’t be long until Chrome has something as good if not better than firebug. Firefox certainly didn’t have it on day one.
If you like Chrome’s stripped down Web Inspector, you will love the original full featured version in the WebKit nightlies. Cheers!
Chrome Inspector ?
“Just about overnight, they’ve managed to convince hordes of people that Chrome is the way to browse on your PC”
Not me, not until I have all my extensions, I feel crippled with this browser
Google is the new Microsoft. Copying Apple iphone and safari what’s next?
Safari, really? You’ve got to be kidding. Please, Mac fanboy/girl comments are so painfully obvious and lame.
Watch your step. Chrome’s html rendering engine is WebKit… Guess what the most popular implementation of WebKit is so far.
@Jack Elliot: Simply because Chrome’s rendering engine is Webkit does not mean it is “copying Apple iPhone and Safari,” as Riley put it. An html rendering engine is just one piece of a very complex puzzle.
Also, Google, Adobe and others have gone on to develop on top of Apple’s original technology. Do we say (with negative connotations, at that) that other companies and creators are copying when they do this? They are enhancing, tweaking, etc., but definitely not copying. I’m not as thrilled by Chrome as some are (other than by how fast it is), but it is definitely not Safari. I’ve never seen Safari pull this kind of excitement. Why? Because Safari is a shit browser.
haha
“Google is the new Microsoft. Copying Apple iphone and safari what’s next?”
exactly.
It’s been a winning strategy before.
First mover advantage is over rated.
Maybe Google will create a music store… G-Phone? Music Player?
It’s been interesting… and it will be for the next few years. Lots of Thinkovation going on.
That’s right. And that’s a prove success story. I know Apple will fight back once google has a good product, hence it’s a great situation especially for users like us.
Without addons Chrome will be the “Joke of the Millenium.” So forget long vision, load short vision > http://techkidd...me-add-ons.html
I’m sticking with firefox. come on, who’s with me??
Graham,
Until Chrome adds a master password manager it’s not as secure as Firefox IMHO. So, I’ll be with you at least until then.
David
I am!
I love Google’s this product. we will try to learn something from Google. I also tried to create some web platform long time. Cityquery is one of them.
You can try http://www.cityquery.com
i LIke google but I am nervous about where this is leading… They are an advertising company remeber thats how they make their money.. I use Safari on the Mac (Webkit actually) and an app called Fluid which does alot fo good stuff I like the Ajax platform. I dont want someone to be taking all my info of what I do and where I surf…. All you people seem to dont get the location based and such ideas which will leave us wide open to all being cataloged. What if some nutter gets a hold of this stuff
They aren’t logging your browsing behavior. Also, do not be so quick to think that Apple hasn’t advertised to death or collected vast amounts of information on your buying behavior with them. That’s how they make their money, too.
No need for conspiracy theories, really. If you like Chrome, use it. It’s bloody fast, but it’s still got a ways go to (no extensions!
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That’s a particularly naive view. Every time you use the “omnibox” (i.e. go somewhere on the web) Google is recording your movements.
It’s simple fact that every time you use a Google service you are tracked, recorded and analysed. With every new tool they provide, they gain more information about you – in fact, it’s almost certainly true that Google knows more about you than anyone else.
Chrome is just another way to get those Google services in front of your eyeballs, as well as helping tie that information to a particular person.
Dom, you know you can turn that feature off right? And Chrome is open-freaking-source; if it contains spyware, it won’t be hard to find.
@Dom: As Brian says, you can turn that feature off. I don’t use it.
Also, it’s a simple fact that if you’re online, you’re tracked, recorded and analyzed. It’s not Google-specific, for sure. You’re tracked here on TechCrunch, even, if only slightly. You have a website, which is cached in several places and, unless you’ve set it otherwise, being archived by archive.org. If you think Google commits privacy wrongs and are concerned about it (which, I’m not drawing a conclusion here as it whether it does on the whole or not), you are in the wrong place, probably. The Internet does not have much in terms of true identity privacy, even if you’re using pseudonyms and attempting to cover your tracks. Someone could track you if they really wanted to, most likely.
Now if you want to discuss dominant ideology here, and act as though Google is acting as some insidious Boogie Man corporation out to rape you of your capacity to think for yourself and the like, perhaps you should consider this: your website functions in the same way. Why do you promote your website by including your link in your comments? Why do you tell people about it? Why do you post online at all? To get your work in front of people’s eyeballs. Do you use tracking scripts? Do you try to learn about your site users? Well, then, there you go. The flip side is that Google probably offers a lot more to its users than you ever could, simply because of what it is.
Arguably, no one in Google probably has the time (or, really, the care) to track you. Who are you? Now, if you were the president of a major country, well, that’d be different. But you’re Joe Blow, and no one cares (sorry, but true; same goes for me, so don’t feel bad). Google’s just not that into you.
I think Google doesn’t recode user’s url to db. that will be very huge data.
I don’t really like Chrome for a few reasons, and will stick with Firefox, but I would pretty readily use it on a mobile phone. The speedy way it zoots around the net would be a nice boost for browsing on a phone, definitely.
Lelia, Google sucks. admit it.
Google, as a whole neither rocks nor sucks. Some of its products are great, while others are duds. What does suck balls, however, is silly little trolls named MotherGoose, who think baiting works.
How are you going to make such an statement without having seen it on a mobile device. Fucking guerrilla marketers, GTFO of my tech news.
@Jack: Because I’ve used some other Google stuff on mobiles (gmail, gtalk), and I know it’s good. Very good. Chrome runs fast, from what I can tell, though I’m not going to use it to browse from my computer, and I imagine that same sort of technology will be transferred to the mobile. I would like a fast browser there.
Please tell me how my saying that I’m sticking with Firefox but will probably use it on a mobile is “guerrilla marketing?” Since when is stating an opinion guerrilla marketing? Is it simply because I happen to like Google products (for the most part)? So I can’t have an opinion on the products I use now without that being called marketing?
I liked chrome except for some drawbacks like missing toolbars… now when I see the andriod with chrome probably makes more sense why they kept the browser clutter free and neat.
I agree. I can’t wait to see it running on Android.
I like chrome a lot just because it shows a lot of potential. I didn’t expect it to debut with lots of plug-ins and extras so I wasn’t really dissapointed. Now that TOS deal is a little off putting but I think they’ll change that.
The already did.
http://www.goog...hrome/eula.html
Google seems to be moving away from their core competency. Wonder what their long term plan is in?
http://www.newgadgetsguru.com
But typing key word instead of URL and jumps into their search result is a great way to generate revenue out of their AdSense. I prefer going to the site directly, instead of through the google search result. I know it’s tough but that’s the way we are heading. No more URL just like we had no more IP address era long time ago. :p
You can turn that feature off. It’s just the default.
i cant even lie the chrome is a sexy beast
See… for all we know, they built Chrome with Android in mind, it just so happen they released it first under Windows to gain publicity and some market share.
Chrome is garbage! Why are all you fanboys following a microsoftesque product that completely imposes its brand upon you. Google is a ADVERTISING BROKER with alterior motives that seem good, but really are trying to retain their core business. Chrome is nothing special AT ALL, and I have no idea why people think it will take over any other browser. Is it really anything different than opera or firefox? OMG but google makes something and it is great?? PFFFT Apple makes great things, GOOGLE BROKERS ADS SO STFU.
Last time I checked, IE wasn’t open source. If you had any intellectual honesty, you’d at least concede that having another good browser out there is good for the market. Google is increasing competition and throwing some good ideas into an open source product that others can learn from or improve. What’s the problem?
I recently downloaded IE8 Beta 2, and find it to be an amazing browser alongside Firefox 3. Google Chrome isn’t up to par. The minimal design approach taken on this will keep most non-techies out of the way. For most people going to File -> Print is so much more convenient then what is standard in Chrome. It’s got alot to prove in the existing browser world. More people need to stop using it because it’s Google and give other browsers a try. IE8 really is fantastic, and as is Safari 4.
The only things that matter is gears on android
IE8 beta2 is still pretty slow at Javascript compared to Chrome V8, SquirrelFish, and TraceMonkey, it’s still bloated, and still doesn’t support Canvas or SVG either. In other words, it’s still frustrating for web developers and will hold back the limits of what can be done with Javascript apps. Sure, it’s a big advancement over IE6/7, but too little too late IMHO.
80 percent of people have never used the internet, to put things into perspective. The vast majority of mankind has never touched a computer. Half the world makes less than 2 dollars a day.
however, there’s about 3 billion mobile phone subscription out there, to put things into perspective. Soon this will be 3 billion of internet access
Which is really interesting, because I guess the other half that makes more than 2 dollars a day has a cellphone connection. That’s cool actually.
Thanks Google, for bringing back the Safari Carpet bomb Java vulnerability back to our computers. I hope you guys publish a fix asap!
And do we really need our individual Chrome ID to be sent with every use of the Omnibox? Luckily there is a way to turn this off
Open the file Local State in \Google\Chrome\User Data with wordpad
Delete the values in brackets in “client_id” & “client_id_timestamp” under “user_experience_metrics”
Then looks as follows:
“user_experience_metrics”: {
“client_id”: “”,
“client_id_timestamp”: “”,
Save changes, and make file read-only. Done.
At Google, we spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And like all of you, in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends – all using a browser. People are spending an increasing amount of time online, and they’re doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago.
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