Google launches Internet browser!!! (Google Chrome)

FULL DOWNLOAD:

http://www.google.com/chrome ( alternative)

CLEAN INSTALLER WITHOUT GOOGLE UPDATER: (Thanks, McGrady!)

http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

Features:

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/features.html

Google Chrome comic to explain how Chrome works:

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

Google's blog about the Chrome release:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

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Google launches Internet browser

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.



The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come.

"We realised... we needed to completely rethink the browser," said Google's Sundar Pichai in a blog post.

The new browser will help Google take advantage of developments it is pushing online in rich web applications that are challenging traditional desktop programs.

Google has a suite of web apps, such as Documents, Picasa and Maps which offer functionality that is beginning to replace offline software.

"What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build," Mr Pichai, VP Product Management, wrote.

The launch of a beta version of Chrome on Tuesday will be Google's latest assault on Microsoft's dominance of the PC business. The firm's Internet Explorer program dominates the browser landscape, with 80% of the market.

Source: BBC

 

Mozilla’s Response to Google Chrome

03.09.2008



Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his thoughts on Google’s new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla.

“It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here — their business is the web, and they’ve got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better. Chrome will be a browser optimized for the things that they see as important, and it’ll be interesting to see how it evolves.” Mozilla’s Europe president, Tristan Nitot also chimed in during an interview with PCPro, stating that they don’t view this as a direct attack on Firefox, even if it did catch them by surprise. “I’ll take another example: just before Microsoft launched Vista, it invited us [to work with it] so that Firefox works better on Windows Vista. Because for it, Firefox being a top-tier application that was very successful - we now have 200 million users around the world - it could not afford to have Firefox run slowly on Vista. Therefore, it helped us improve Firefox for Vista. That’s just the same for Google. It wants Firefox to perform well with its applications, that’s for sure. Indeed, it even wants IE to perform well with Gmail and the rest. It’s just that it has very limited control over this. That’s why Google’s been frustrated and it is launching this Chrome browser.”

Source: Slashdot

 

Maybe since it is a lightweight browser this might also be the browser on android? Im just throwing that out there. Hopefully its good because its gonna take a lot for me to get rid of firefox.

 

Lol...interesting. I will definitely check it out but yeah, it has to be ridiculously amazing to be able to convert me to it. Firefox and its add-ons=gg.

 

I can see this being a really powerful answer to mobile internet browsing. The iPhone might have done a decent job, but if Google can improve media capability over webpages on PalmOS, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and the iPhone, they may be poised to take over mobile internet as a whole. They are getting into the market early.

 

Until I can customize it like FF, it's not getting the spot as my top browser. I hope they have a Linux version for it so i can give it a try.

 

Yeah later in the future there will be.

EDIT: I like the sandboxed tabs :x
although thats not really necessary since im careful and i know what im doing. but its nice.

 

Interesting news...
I'll definitely give it a whirl but there isn't anything wrong or bothersome with Firefox, so it'll probably come down to nifty gadgets when I decide which to use as my main browser.

 

What will become of my Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer???? Computer disguised to look like tape recorder http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA...eriesDetail/0,,CNTID%3D2204%26CTID%3D,00.html

 

That makes me as well.

Probably wont change, unless google is offering something so amazing i would say to myself how did i live without it.

FF all the way

 

Safari is faster than Firefox but i am still using FF due to its Add ons & themes.

 

Btw, Google is really just another name for Skynet.

 

heh heh, i have so many addons, the toolbars take up more space than the webpage.

but i stopped using FF and now have taken up PC Safari

 

I might consider it depending on how good it looks and how it performs.

 

Definitely trying it the second it'll come available to download. The Google Chrome page is taken down at the moment, I hope it'll be up soon.

 

Not gonna beat FF IMO,
no addon support = fail = no ver. 2.0 = no increase in addon support = fail

 

Google Chrome will have support for addons.

 

This is how someone on the Opera Browser forum described it:

It's more like Opera's Speed Dial and tabs + IE's private browsing and multi-process design + Mozilla's JIS Javascript compiler + Safari's WebKit rendering engine + Google's task manager for browser.

See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=248404

I am actually looking forward to it - especially if it is light, is compatible on my Win Mob 6 phone AND (this 'AND' is very important), it has the key elements of Opera. I wonder though...

Cheers!

Edit: Of course, if Chrome has those ad things then it will be a big no-no for me...

 

Looking forward to this, but I doubt it will make me switch from FF.

 

Competition is always good. Although (as others said) it will take a lot to convert me from FF3.

I did not know that IE had that large of a market share by the way...I can't believe MS has still not made an effective browser.

 

it has so much of the market share because 99% of people who own a computer dont realize they could choose another browser or what their browser can do, etc etc... so microsoft doesnt have to make an effective browser while the majority of the people are going to use it ignorantly anyway!

kind of like ipods and their crap batteries... apple doesnt need to fix it cuz everyones still going to buy them.

 

Exactly. Whenever I'm at school running FF3 off of a flash drive or something, people are always like "OMG! What IS that?!?!". I'm like, "A way better version of Microsoft's shoddy product."

 

My father gets angry when i install FF3 on his laptop...he thinks its an amateur product and has to be updated everytime, finally due to IE7 his entire computer got infected and had to be re-formatted.

now he agrees FF3 is better & safer.

 

Haha, I installed it on my dad's laptop, and he was like "What did you DO?" He was amazed the internet could go that fast.

 

this is great... i'm really interested on this one.
I'm using two browser (Firefox and IE). if I can just use only one.

That's Great!

 

Guys and gals, I just posted the download link on the first page, it's not up yet, but it should be up some time today.

 

I've always thought Google is more evil than M$.

 

For a browser embedded in the OS by default, should not be surprising...no?

 

I wonder how long this product will be in beta? Looks neat though, I shall give it a try whenever it decides to come out. I'll probably stick with FF3 though because of the extensions; I doubt Google will allow ad blocking of their own product.

 

Does anyone else remember the Microsoft trial when Microsoft claimed it was a core component of the OS, and then the judge uninstalled it without the computer dying?

 

Well, you needed it for Windows Updates for the optional components.

 

IE? If so, there are some sites out there that don't work on Firefox. Can't recall any at the moment but there were some.

Hmm, http://gunz.ijji.com/ was one of them 'til they look care of it later on.

 

The web application at work only works with IE. I wish I could use FF3, but that's life.

 

Yeah there are sites like that, but they're always late on the updates.

 

Good point made there that Google Chrome probably won't support ad-blocking much, since Google Ads is their own product. I might stick with FF just because of the ad-blocking capabilities.

By the way, release is scheduled to be in about 3 hours from now.

 

where did you hear that?

 

The Chrome bots sound both cool (detecting problems as early as possible, do to Google's network) and really, really scary (they may come to life and kill us all, didn't anyone see Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines).

 

^rofl, yeah, Chrome Bots, the doom of mankind!

@jpzsports - A Swedish tech-news site. Of course nothing is sure, I heard a few different hours, but this is the one that I think seems most legitimate.

 

I'll be getting it for sure, I doubt it will replace FF3, but its only in the early beta too

 

Well it's open source so noone can be stopped from making an adblock-esque addon for it.
On the topic of installing it on parents computers: My dad swears IE5 > FF 2 because "it's part of windows, therefore faster and better"
For a guy who was the it manager of a huge company at one point, running hundreds of linux based computers.... *facepalm*

 

The funny thing is that for Google, even some their mature products - like Gmail (now in its 2.0 Version) is still a beta version. So, I think we can expect Chrome to be in Beta form for a while...

In fact, I think Google is a Beta company - by this I mean that given the pace at which they keep innovating (Google Gears comes to mind immediately), the 'beta' tag is probably appropriate.

The problem here is going to be for MS. I mean think about it: Google takes over the Search function; then comes up with the now ubiquitous Gmail; then releases Google Desktop; then Google Apps and Gears...then there is Android and the Google Phone and last but not the least there is now talk of moving the computing experience totally onto the web with the hardware being the interface between the user and the suite of applications that make him or her productive which will reside totally on the net.

The question MS must be asking is...well if all this happens (over, say, a 5-7 years timeframe), then (1) what happens to the MS core business which is the OS and (2) what happens to the critical sub business, Office Apps.

Chrome is a very interesting release not least for the fact that there is a new browser on the block! Oh...and I just read it somewhere that Chrome will be released at 11am PST at which time there will also be a press conference to formally announce the release.

Oh...and to confirm...just Google it...

 

Why? It's not like they have to...the reality of the situation is that when you have a majority of the market and most of that market is the average joe who could care less about all thee things that people who are more knowledgeable gripe about then you really just have to produce a decent product and NOT focus on improving significantly from year to year.

Honestly I use both browsers. The only reason I prefer Firefox is that I think the interface is a lot better and overall I enjoy the experience of browsing the internet with Firefox a lot more.

As for Google from the screenshots I've seen of their browser it looks pretty mediocre. However I don't know enough about it to say whether it will be interesting.

 

I'll give it a try. I used to be a hardcore Opera user but have recently switched over to FF3 when it came out. Opera was uninstalled then.

 

So do you think we'll be seeing a Google OS in 5 - 10 years? I guess if any company could do it, it would be Google.

 

While they do have their own Linux distro, Goobuntu, I think their main focus with this would be to push web applications.

 

Well...yes, but I guess it wont be an OS in the sense that we are familiar with...which is what I think would give MS the jitters. This cloud computing stuff - though in its nascent stage - is quite scary if you look at it from MS's pov...and that is precisely Google's space.

I am not sure I kinda understand this - but is it not possible to think of computers without Operating Systems? Perhaps a stage before the OS becomes completely redundant is to use a distributed OS model - where the distribution takes place across the Web and is an 'on-demand' thing which only temporarily resides on the end user's machine - something like a very sophisticated thin client perhaps?

Simply put, Google could (all speculative here of course) say to users - all right you wanna use a computer for business, for school, to surf, to do whatever - fine...all you need to do is be online and everything is there for you...your hardware just needs to hook onto the Net and !Bam! there you go - no buying OS, no buying Office Apps or apps of any kind. If this scenario holds then the HW in these conditions would be only browser-based. What does MS do then? It has sunk costs in its OS and in its Apps and all this would go up in puff of smoke! Now, assuming that this does come about in that 5-10 yr timeframe, then machines like these would have small modular programs that would interface with peripherials. The interesting thing is that Google is also getting into the HW business - albeit following a very traditional model with their Android-based phone. But you get the drift!

 

And not to forget, they now their own Mobile Phone OS too - Android!

 

Android looks neat except it seems to only be going to Tmobile, so far. They roll a lot of their own software, I noticed they have their own web server software too.

 

I waiting on the HTC Android phone from T-Mo myself.

My Nokia is about on it's last legs

 

It's open source, someone will create something similar to Ad-Block Plus eventually.