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Google will today launch a beta version of its own browser, codenamed "Chrome" in 100 countries, officially marking its entry into the browser business.

Firefox, the world's biggest open source browser, grew massively over the last few years, especially on the back of a massive advertising partnership with Google Inc.

More: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
 
http://www.google.com/chrome

Well I thought to myself not another product from Google, but within the first few minutes
I liked how fast it loaded pages and Google Chrome loads far faster than FF except for some images having to click reload the page.

Ctrl T gives you a screen shot of your most viewed web pages in Graphics mode


Tested ABSA banking website and they load perfectly no problems with mybroadband web page too

Spellchecker
Now if you look at where you type and your type a word incorrectly it will be underlined

Now we have IE 6/7, Firefox 2/3,Opera, Safari, and now Google Chrome.
Let the browser wars begin.

Memory Usage:
Lets see how much RAM Chrome will consume as FF is quite a memory hog , oh boy Chrome starts a new chome.exe process for every new tab you open, consuming 11-38Mb per process.
Maybe starting many processes is better than opening one BIG process, I have seen FF grow to 176Mb of RAM consumed.
Tested it wil 30 tabs open and loaded web pages quickly, not bad.
 
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That's just it, with Firefox even if you closed the tabs it continued to hog the memory and ironically it was giving me serious issues crashing my pc today just as i remembered it was time to download the new Google Chrome. So far I am quite impressed :)

The one MAJOR downside i have is ad blocking, which lets face it, is very useful nowadays. Websites look a bit different from what i recall simple due to there suddenly being epileptic invoking ads :eek:

Other thing i will miss on occasion is the image zoom plugins I have gotten quite fond of for those tiny pics :p
 
The speed is phenomenal, especially on a Javascript intensive site such as MyADSL's vBulletin Forum
 
I am still very happy with the low mem usage..

One question tho.. where the heck do you set the caching configs?
 
Yeah, all we need now is google to determine what sites they want you to see --

Its gonna be mafia style, pay us and we will let your site render well... similarly to what adwords is doing now...
 
Olly said:
Yeah, all we need now is google to determine what sites they want you to see --

Its gonna be mafia style, pay us and we will let your site render well... similarly to what adwords is doing now...
Click to expand...

You don't know too much about Google, do you?

That would be very much against Google's stated public opinion...

http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html

They have been very much on the forefront of "Net Neutrality" all along. And it suits their business models (is in their interests for feeding advertising).
 
how will google make money by developing a browser - more ads or what?

come to think about it - how does firefox make money?
 
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