Guest post by “Google today posted a finished, stable version of Chrome 9. The update is the first non-beta to have the Chrome Web Store built-in and lets anyone in the US reach it through a new browser tab. The store packages apps in a way that Flash, HTML5 or other code behaves more like a conventional app download or sale with a list of installed apps to match.”
…from those who waffle on about Apple “pushing” their stuff on to users. There are probably millions of Mac users who’ve never seen the iTunes store or the Mac App store, and you can quite happily browse the web with Safari without either being shoved in your face.
But of course Chrome is open so shoving their app store in your face is probably ok…
Uh, the Chrome app store is a web page. I just updated all my Chrome installations… And nothing. It’s not there. It’s not being shoved in your face.
Contrary to Apple, where the Mac App Store icon gets dumped into your dock, where Windows users get Apple’s spyware installed through the updater, and so on.
I just updated to chrome 9 and I was wondering if you could tell me how to actually find the app store. It hasn’t been shoved in my face yet and i’ve been using chrome 9 for a whole 10 minutes now.
well sometime when I get an update (dev channel) it expands both the app menu and the speed dial menu, which are about the same size. Takes me about one second to hit the X and minimize the app menu back down to a single button with a drop down menu on click.
For me, it shows up when I click the “new tab” button – the page starts at the top with “Apps” expanded, and a big “Web Store” icon on the right side there.
Easy to hide at least
While I was messing with WebGL in Chrome on my Win7 64bit machine the other day, my screen went black, and shortly after, I got the bluescreen with memory dump.
Looks like it crashed in the nvidia driver (not surprising given the circumstance), but it was still the first legitimate “Windows 7 Crash” I have experienced thus far.
Just thought I’d share
I’ve had Windows reboot/bluescreen every time a websites used webfonts (WOFF), which are not widespread. It was a Windows/video driver problem.
How is that for supporting latest technologies. 🙂
Do you means that a mere webpage can now BSOD a lot of Windows computers simply by using those ?
Modern web browser security is undoubtably sweet…
I’m not sure why you’re putting the blame on the browser: any OS crash is a failure of the OS, not of the application which triggered the crash..
..I understand what you’re saying and mostly agree, But it’s also a little unfair! –blaming solely and always the OS–
Web browsers can make flaws worse, by making knowingly buggy features available to third-party websites instead of blacklisting them.
Sure, they’re not directly responsible for the flaw, but they help the guys who want to exploit it.
And the more complex web browsers will become, the more likely they’ll be to include flaws or to make other software’s flaws exploitable.
Edited 2011-02-04 15:57 UTC
Exactly – exposing more of the underlying OS means exposing more of the underlying OS’ bugs.
Given that Google would rather people leave Chrome than add an about:config to turn off their new enhancements (eg. Hiding http://), I’m very glad I’ve already migrated back to a highly Chrome-ified Firefox for 99% of my browsing.
Heck, it even solved the problem of my browser guzzling 2-3GiB of my 4GiB of RAM once I have a couple dozen tabs open. (Firefox hovers around 400MiB with similar usage, despite all my extensions)
Took a ton of customization (including a few XUL Userstyle hacks I wrote myself), but once Firefox’s knock-off of Chrome’s simplified, API-stabilized extension API is ready, The only reason I’ll have to use Chrome is for testing my creations on all major browsers.
Indeed. As a Firefox 4 Beta user, I’ve been flabbergasted by the enhancements in memory usage. I can constantly open up to 40 tabs, jump my usage to 400-500MB and then it manages to jump back down to 200-220MB on it own when I close most of those.
With the speed update, the “chrome”-like design and the soon to be Tab=Process project coming up, there’s really no incentive to try anything else.
Yay for competition! Competition is good.
With everything else going on at Google at the moment, this is Google shooting themselves in the foot again!