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Re: google browser
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:31 pm
by foggytown
jungar wrote:well .. just thought Husse and Clem would find this interesting and worth a read... maybe even installed in mint 6. the browser war just got uglier. hooray for us
That may be putting your cart before your horse. They will release a Windows only version tomorrow--more than likely an early beta. At some unspecified time in the future they claim they will bring it to Linux.
I have no doubt that google has the ingenuity to write a descent browser, but how long until it matches Firefox?
Re: google browser
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:48 pm
by lakehousetech
I'll stick with Firefox. Google's making enough money as it is.
Re: google browser
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:31 am
by merlwiz79
Re: google browser
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:09 pm
by badmotor
Well, I've been enjoying the Windows version so far today - I wonder how long the Linux version will be...
Re: google browser
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:39 pm
by clem
Very promising browser and one of the most groundbreaking news in IT this year. I can't wait to see the impact this is going to have, and not only on the browser market...
Clem.
Re: google browser
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:50 pm
by merlwiz79
Re: google browser
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:50 pm
by lakehousetech
Sometimes performance shouldn't be the deciding factor.
Re: google browser
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:50 am
by Acid_1
I think it should be a combination of performance and functuality, who wants a browser that does, say 3 things, but it does them in lightning speed, or one that does so much stuff that a circus chimpanze would have its work cut out for it? I'd rather have as much performance as they can squeeze out of it without sacrificing functuality. My 2-cents.
Re: google browser
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:40 am
by Acid_1
Stefan wrote:
I know English is not my first language, but to me it all depends on what you put in the word "performance". After all, a browser cannot perform well without functionality. And a browser that takes three times as long to load a page as IE7 is not even close to being functional.
Performance to me means speed, functuality means usage. I guess you could swap them though haha. However, I find that Firefox and Opera tend to hang a lot during usage so I have high hopes.
Re: google browser
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:48 pm
by merlwiz79
Looks like the next Firefox release isn't going to be bad at all.
http://lifehacker.com/5044668/beta-brow ... is-fastest
Re: google browser
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:27 pm
by merlwiz79
I have it running on wine.
It's a little slow, but does work without https:// though.
Here is a how to:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=45
about:memory
about:stats
about:network
about:internets
about:histograms
about:dns
about:cache
about:plugins
about:version
Re: google browser
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:20 am
by Fred
I wouldn't expect too much from it this early in the game, but Google has the resources to make it fly if they want to.
Fred
Re: google browser
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:10 pm
by clem
You got me excited there, I thought that was a tutorial to compile it for Linux... I stopped at "First get WINE"
My only hope: That Google actually come with portable code and Linux binaries.. not with something bundled with Wine underneath like they did before...
Clem.
Re: google browser
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:32 pm
by merlwiz79
clem wrote:You got me excited there, I thought that was a tutorial to compile it for Linux... I stopped at "First get WINE"
My only hope: That Google actually come with portable code and Linux binaries.. not with something bundled with Wine underneath like they did before...
Clem.
They do have the source code out and a build for Linux.
It just doesn't give you a browser yet.
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how- ... ions-linux
Re: google browser
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:58 am
by merlwiz79
They were reusing their EULA and didn't realize that was left in it.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ge-it.html