Serious Potential in Google’s Browser

[RedEarth]

Does the world really need another Web browser?

Google thinks so. Chrome, its new browser, was developed in secrecy and released to the world Tuesday. The Windows version is available for download now at google.com/chrome; the Mac and Linux versions will take a little longer.

Google argues that current Web browsers were designed eons ago, before so many of the developments that characterize today’s Web: video everywhere, scams and spyware, viruses that lurk even on legitimate sites, Web-based games and ambitious Web-based programs like Google’s own Docs word processor. As Google’s blog puts it, “We realized that the Web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser.”

What this early version of Chrome accomplishes isn’t quite that grand. But it is a first-rate beginning.

With no status bar, no menu bar and only a single toolbar (for bookmarks), Chrome is minimalist in the extreme.

Some might even call it stripped-down. This initial version is labeled “beta,” meaning it is still in testing. True, Google labels almost everything beta — four-year-old Gmail is still in beta — but this time it’s serious.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[madrchsod]

1. released then pulled....brillant!

maybe they`ll get the download site functioning today or tomorrow

[paparush]

2. I've been rocking it since 10:30pm last night. I'm liking it.

I like things stripped down and clean.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. It's fast. I want menu bars.

[snappyturtle]

4. Thank you! This sounds great....I like the security features having

just lost everything due to a vicious attack on my computer....lots of headaches and lots of loss. I guess I've finally learned to start saving important stuff on CD. But I can't cry over spilt milk.

[Locrian]

5. Viral Marketing

If MS did this people would be in the streets...

http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en-us/privacy.html


"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."


Information that Google receives when you use Google Chrome is processed in order to operate and improve Google Chrome and other Google services. Information that other website operators receive is subject to the privacy polices of those websites. Google Chrome stores information on your machine in order to improve the browser’s performance and provide you with features, such the option to review snapshots from pages you have visited.