The buzz in the online world these past 24 hours or so have all been around Google’s new open source web browser, under the name of Google Chrome.
There have been rumors about a Google browser for ages now, with people suspecting it will be called GBrowser, or simply Google Browser; but those rumors never materialized until yesterday when Google “accidentally” let slip some comics presenting the new browser; and then followed up with a blog post, announcing a beta would be released today.
I went through the comic book talking about the product’s details and I think it is a great way to present the product and I recommend that anyone interested check it out here.
The beta was officially released some minutes ago, and I got to download it and play around with it a bit, and I have to say I’m really impressed and loving it up to now.
It has a very clean and simplistic interface, maximizing the browsing area; and it is really fast.
The browser uses the WebKit rendering engine, the V8 JavaScript Virtual Machine, an optimized approach to tabs, a homepage presenting most visited websites, and a number of security and privacy options; in addition to other interesting features.
I think this is a really promising product from Google; and I can’t wait to see where they take it, and what it will do for web apps.
Yes the wait is over. Finally I downloaded it. It really very much faster than the others
“We are so, so happy with Google Chrome,” mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth. “That most of our income is from Google has no bearing on me making this statement.” – http://notnews.today.com/?p=57
i’m willing to try it out just to see if it works more efficiently than FireFox… if it’s faster than Firefox, has tabs and isn’t IE, then it should be perfect
o far, I’m basically please with Google Chrome. It has some work to do, and I have more to run it through. I’ll be back soon with more on add-on work arounds and Google Gears, and whatever else I uncover in the mean time. Send me your feedback and thoughts using the email or comments links below.