The browser wars may just become a little bit more interesting. Apart from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, another player is ready to join the field in what will most probably be released as a beta - you know, company policy - for the upcoming 23 years: Chrome. It's a webkit-based browser from Google. Update: It's out there, folks.
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RE: Official Announcement
Member since:2005-11-10
Why is it you must point out other's non-compliance to your way of reading and dealing with articles.
Could you have not just stayed shtum and let the public decided whether this link was useful here or not through the mod system?
In fact, some like to get their information straight from the horse's mouth, and don't want to go blog hopping for what they're looking for; so putting this link here is every bit appropriate.
Member since:2005-12-15
I have my doubts this'll go very far.
Firefox is the most advanced and extendible browser on the market and to catch up will take a very long time in my view.
The community add-ons alone.. unless there's compatibility of Firefox add-ons with Chrome or a max exodus from Firefox plug-in development (which I highly doubt) then this does seem to me to be more name and not so much show, much like Safari.
Sorry Google, but you've got your work cut out for you.
Just because it has "Google" on it doesn't make it an automatic success.
Member since:2007-03-04
The question is: Do most people need this extensibility? I'm asking because I don't. If it's the case, catching up (in other words, adding the addons feature) shouldn't take that long for a company like Google)
I'm sure just the improved speed for Ajax applications, the overall stability, and the minimalist GUI with a Google logo will be enticing enough for people to adopt it. Personally I can't wait to give it a whirl
No, but it helps greatly. Unless the product is bad, it's already a success, unlike other brands.
Member since:2005-07-06
Well, Safari is much just another browser. Chrome, if it maintains its promises, seems another thing. The concept of running tabs as separate jailed processes and to speed up Javascript are really interesting.
I agree that some compatibility with Firefox plugins should be put in place. It would be a tremendous feature.
Any information on the license Google wants to apply? It won't be GPL, probably, but what else?
Member since:2006-03-16
Personally, I managed to endure the whole comic, I find it very well thought out in technical architecture and design. It is very different from how Firefox does things, they mention the 'single-threaded'-ness of other browsers, and to fix this would take a huge effort.
I can't help but feel that Firefox may just have been 'run over' completly.
RE[2]: Official Announcement
Member since:2006-02-15
Firefox is the most advanced and extendible browser on the market and to catch up will take a very long time in my view.
The most advanced? Pray tell, what kinds of features does it boast that no other browser has? Extensibility is useful, yes, but it's mostly used by geeks only so it doesn't matter for the majority of computer users.
The community add-ons alone.. unless there's compatibility of Firefox add-ons with Chrome or a max exodus from Firefox plug-in development (which I highly doubt) then this does seem to me to be more name and not so much show, much like Safari.
Most Windows users don't know much about Apple, if anything, so they don't have any brand recognition and thus have no incentive to move to Safari. Also Safari doesn't seem to offer anything over any other browser. But Google is known more or less by 100% of computer users, both illiterate people and über geeks. Also there's a whole lot of people who associate Google with the whole internet. I, too, have Google as my homepage cos I use it all the freaking time. Thus they already have a huge market penetration and recognition.
Believe it or not, Chrome will get addons written for it if it's not compatible with the Firefox ones.
Just because it has "Google" on it doesn't make it an automatic success.
No, but it's a lot more probable.
Member since:2005-07-06
Do most people care, to me it's look the other way around. The over reliance on the add-on system are the biggest drawback I see in Firefox. Not only that they tend to brake when upgrading, but the simple fact that the add-ons I would even bother to install comes as default on other browsers.
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2005-07-08
Announcement on the Official Google Blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html