{"id":5056,"date":"2008-09-02T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-02T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T07:15:00","slug":"google-launches-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/5056-google-launches-browser.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will today release its newest product in the form of an open source browser called Chrome. The release comes a little ahead of Google&#8217;s original plans after the company accidentally sent out a comic book-style media release yesterday. (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&amp;printsec=frontcover#PPP1,M1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&amp;printsec=frontcover#PPP1,M1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed by Google as faster, more stable and secure than alternatives, Chrome will likely re-ignite the &quot;browser wars&quot; as it goes head to head with Internet Explorer and the Firefox browser.<\/p>\n<p>The other major benefit of Chrome, says Google, is that it has been built specifically for a new-generation of Web applications. In the comic Google says: &quot;Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren&#8217;t just web pages, they&#8217;re applications.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Google says on its official blog: &quot;Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today&#8217;s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated &quot;sandbox&quot;, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren&#8217;t even possible in today&#8217;s browsers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Google says that Chrome is built using components from both Apple&#8217;s Webkit as well as Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox. &quot;In that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Chrome will be released for Windows initially and Mac and Linux later, says Google.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=133762\"><strong>Google Chrome discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source Chrome browser will go head to head with Firefox and Internet Explorer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}