google browser

[foggytown]

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?

[lakehousetech]

I'll stick with Firefox. Google's making enough money as it is.

[merlwiz79]

Screenshots: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-02-n72.html
Download should be here: http://gears.google.com/chrome

[badmotor]

Well, I've been enjoying the Windows version so far today - I wonder how long the Linux version will be...

[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.

[merlwiz79]

it is like 10 times faster compared to firefox in javascript engine , look at my tests :
chrome : http://dromaeo.com/?id=22198
firefox : http://dromaeo.com/?id=22226

I believe FireFox should change its javascript engine to V8.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... tcount=322

Doesn't connect to the net using wine.

[lakehousetech]

Sometimes performance shouldn't be the deciding factor.

[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.

[Acid_1]

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.

[merlwiz79]

Looks like the next Firefox release isn't going to be bad at all.
http://lifehacker.com/5044668/beta-brow ... is-fastest

[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

[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

[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.

[merlwiz79]

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

[merlwiz79]

guys.. what do you think of this article:

http://gizmodo.com/5044871/google-chrom ... -to-emails

They were reusing their EULA and didn't realize that was left in it.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ge-it.html