Google Chrome - new web browser

[ChrisF]

It's hardly Penny Arcade, but theres an intro "cartoon" for Google's new browser here: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Launches tonight apparently.

I'll be interested in seeing if the name sticks as I've got a CD here with Microsoft Chrome written on it (proper label, not in TDK marker pen).

[Number45]

Definitely going to give this a try. Like the fact that they're using separate processes for tabs as this is something that Firefox in particular (Though it's better in 3) has trouble with.

[CMcK]

Will it ever make it out of Beta? Still WebKit is a good foundation for a browser and the individual thread per tab is a good idea.
Being Google though it'll no doubt push ads on you. Be interesting to give it a bash when the Mac version is released.
Putting the tabs on top of the screen seems wrong especially on Windows as the tabs will be above the menu bar.

[Number45]

Perhaps there won't be a menu bar? I think the ads are going to be through the auto-complete function, which won't be too intrusive.

[oracle]

yay a fourth browser to test code on


joy

[Number45]

I'm posting this from Google Chrome right now.

[Matt]

Me too. Looks OK so far. Didn't scale up Paypal too well mind.

[VR46]

Will download and try it later, does it force loads of ads on you ?

[Number45]

None at the moment, but then I haven't done much browsing. I suspect most, if not all, of that will come from the 'Omnibox'. Renders incredibly quickly, I have to say, particularly if you use gmail.

[Matt]

It doesn't save scaling info either, so I have to ctrl-wheel every time I revisit a site like this one.

No doubt these little features will be worked out over time. I'm enjoying it so far.

I really like the idea of a crashing site only killing one tab instance.

[Largo]

I am also posting from the beyond of chrome

however i have nothing con....oh..it just grammar and spell checked my post on the fly...that's kind of handy

[Geezer]

No Mac version yet, hopefully not too long to wait, I feel jealous

[ExpertKing]

yep, initial impressions are pretty good. Just waiting for the inevitable 'security flaw' to be posted somewhere soon.No doubt it's being put through it's paces already.

[merf]

seems very quick, even a shade faster than opera on my big desktop, yet to check on my Eee.

[RobRoy]

yeah I think its running pretty quick, and the spell checking feature is really nice

hmmm didnt import my bookmarks