Google has posted their official video of the Chrome press event we live blogged earlier today. I still prefer the comic book version, but if you want to see the official presentation, there it is.
Larry Page steps on stage for the last two minutes. He talks about how he’s been using Chrome on an older computer to test how it handles lower end hardware. I’ve been using Chrome today on two Vista computers – one newish desktop and one ultra portable computer running a Via chip. Chrome works great on both.
Wish there was a recording from the initial blogs they leaked the launch to = the night before.
That was WSJ and Blogoscoped = wonder how the conversations went
It seems WSJ gets all the leaks first
Every Chrome download is “tagged” with a individual Chrome-ID (so chrome has a serial number) which may be associated with your google account, the first time you log in using chrome. so even without any cookies, google will track EVERY request you do. (Next announcement: Google DNS?)
German source: http://www.date...t-auf-der-hand/
I’ve been using Chrome over the last few hours and noticed a problem when I’ve opened several large pages at once, things slow right down. Maybe that’s an issue with my laptop.
Also I think until Chrome gets all the plugins and extras that developers use everyday with Firefox it’s going to be hard to get a powerful core userbase.
Saying that, it is nice to have all that extra space to view sites…
Chrome’s Incognito believes in “No Residual Online Presence” NROP
I have been using Chrome for the last few hours. So far it looks good. Hasn’t given me too many errors. So i am keeping my fingers crossed.
best,
Romit
well I tried my hands on with chrome and new IE 8 Beta 2 surprisingly IE 8 performance [as well as a lot of base concepts like seperate sandbboxes for tabs, tab preview, autocompletion in adress bar] is comaprable to Chrome{I compared a bunch of things like the num of threads spawned by each – page faults in similar conditions. workign set sizes etc}. One thing which I loved about IE was the accelerators. I haven’t seen a detailed post on tech crunch covering IE8 — may be it’s time we get one — let the browser wars begin.
I tried chrome. It is too slow as compared to IE7 that I am using. It took almost 10 times as compared to IE7 for http://www.techcrunch.com and almost 30 times for movies.yahoo.com
I can’t scroll up, but hopefully they’ll address that.
Also, this guy figured out a way to crash chrome. :0 (temporarily, at least)
http://raephras...complished.html
funny…he also says “Google Chrome is like 10 times faster loading pages…. it’s HiDef for the web browser.” I like the hidef quote.
Look at the two Microsoft sponsored comments on this thread. It is certain that Microsoft will be paying hoards of people to put negative comments on high traffic blogs, to try and dampen the impact of chrome.
I don’t think it will work.
Chrome has been blazing fast for me, I just forget I am using it, it is what I’ve wanted in a browser.
But DID you compare to IE8b2?
Talk is cheap Wow Wow…
Does anyone have a video of the questions given by the ‘journalists’ at the end. What a pathetic bunch of idiots who weren’t paying attention.
One shouted Voldemort, another kept talking about the hackers who knows, and how they are taking over the internet. Freak.
And the 1st one was Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch ,-)
Interesting. I still haven’t seen anthing mind blowing – most exciting thing is the V8 engine.
However, it is as good as the others and being Google i’m sure the innovation has only just started.
> most exciting thing is the V8 engine
Similar speedup for JS in Silverlight…
(Watch the chess movie from Mix07 — 1.5 years ago)
Very Interesting.V8 engine is so fast!
see McKinney comment above
Funny, I had to view this video in Firefox. In Chrome, I got video not available.
Be careful! Many songs on my YouTube playlist shows as not available. For some reason, this is the case only with Chrome. Really weird!
why is larry page already greying
Chrome looks good on performance, now security will be key issue
Google acquired a startup called GreenBorder a couple of years ago. They were trying to build a desktop SandBox like environment where applications could run were only allowed to access certain things on the host OS and their activities could be monitored and controlled on Windows.
Those guys did not do a good job with the startup and the company was acquired by Google but some type of a salvage deal from the VCs.
Sounds like some parts of that technology was leveraged in Google Chrome. I was perplexed as to why Google acquired it even if it was a pocket change, but sounds like they have put the technology to good use.
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sganguly@yahoo.com
omg
who needs chrome when you’ve got mozilla? let me guess that now that google have chrome they will pull the plug off mozilla within 12-36 months. do no evil? kid me not.
First, I’m glad that Google is getting into this space, good for them. However, Google could be more straight. In 18:23, in the video the speaker says that people get confused between address bar and the search bar. Huh? I doubt this is the main function of Google only placing one bar (otherwise Google would have an option to toggle the search and address bar). I conjecture that this is heavily a financial decision by eliminating the error provided by ISPs for pages not found when typing an invalid address Google gets that that extra page view and grips the testicles of the web a bit harder. Think about it, how many times have you mistyped a web address?
Google if you’re going to spend thousands of hours making a browser, sure, tell us about the technology you’re putting behind it but also explain why it makes sense for Google’s ad strategy.
I think it is great and faster. The only problem is i can’t watch videos on certain sites like http://www.channel4.co.uk.
Can anyone help me?
I had my laptop crashing yesterday, so I can;t test it on Vista yet. But on XP works well.