Going Chrome?
 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...n-browser.html

Meanwhile, the second beta of microsofts new browser has been made available. I repeatedly read in magazines now that apparently they are now up on the same level with Firefox, whatever such comments are worth.

Well I'll certainly be giving it a try....as long as it remains gratis :lol:

You bet it will! If they charged for it, the rival browsers would have a field day in overall market share!:yep:

What is in it for google?

I wont be until a stable version is released..

http://www.news.com.au/technology/st...014239,00.html

sounds very promising . yes there are few bugs some of them are annoying like for example concerning myself Linkagogo doesn't work but we can send a report of the bug beside that it's very fast and open source :rock:

Edit : LinkaGoGo works they treat the bugs reports very fast at Google http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ncarte_lol.gif

Complete domination of the internet?

Seems like it, ''all your internets belongs to us''

HunterICX

for the time being it may help to break Microsoft's dominant position in that segment. They say if office installations get no longer installed on PCs, buit get called up while being located on the web, it would introduce the beginning of the end of classic operation systems. the new browser should help with regard to this new philosophy. Also Goodle wants to minimie chances of MS to challenge Google's domination with search engines by raising it's own.

Maybe one defact monopolist gets replaced with another monopolist. Is the glass of water half full or half emtpy, then?

One thing I don't like about online apps like a word processor or excel type thing is privacy.

I launch the application from online, but how can I be 100% sure what I'm typing will be secure?

Also I am distrustful of Google as much as I am of MS. In fact I find Google more insidious given their holier than thou persona.

My thoughts precisely. I also hate to depend on installations and storage areas outside my own system and home.

Bet me to it Skybird.

I tried Chrome earlier today and thought it ok for a beta, no crashes yet been using it most of the day and tonight. Abit thin, nothing much to see/use but what i like is its pretty sleek. Might stick with it once the full is out.

I'll stick with Opera and wont help a large company like Google with free beta testing. If they want me to beta test, they could pay me.

i don't care if it's a big company since their products are free

From Chrome's EULA

Tried it, wasn't impressed (except for the speed), didn't like the Google update process running all the time, uninstalled it and still had to manually disable the Google update feature.

i came back to "my" Avant browser too but i'm sure by being open source it's gonna be a cool browser

I don't see what's the big deal. It's not like the internet is any different on a different browser.

Thats not really the point.
Roads and destinations are no different in different cars either. That doesn't mean
a £150 1980s Skoda is just as good as any other car.

I'd say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.


I installed the browser, then removed it. I never granted it permanent permissions to access the web, only when I was testing it. (Comodo Firewall)

It left behind an application, googleupdate,exe which is still trying to access the web every couple of hours. That and a couple other dll's are still being loaded.

It tried to escalate it's own access level. Part of the article said it will "auto-update" as needed. I didn't see an option anywhere to turn this off. Don't know about the rest of you, but I don't allow software to automatically update until I know what it is and what is is for (except virus definition files).

I'm still looking at the sniffer captures from the install, but it looks like it sent almost as much data during the install than it downloaded. (Not just ack's, it sent data)

Being open source for the browser code is one thing. But this installed .exe's and .dll's that were locked. I don't like it and don't seel comfortable with it.

I looked at the browser yesterday. I guess it could get better in the coming days, but I still didn't download it. I know Google likes to mine data from people, so I'm not gonna trust a browser from them. :88)