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Wickham
Advanced Member UK Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Post Count: 590 Status: Offline |
Google has launched its Chrome browser. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html I don't suppose I will use it for browsing as I'm satisfied with Firefox 3.0 but I will probably have to test my webpages with it, so it's just one more browser to test. Do we need so many browsers? Has anyone tried it yet and does it have any special features? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030025-2.html There's a Google comic showing Chrome's features; one is that there is no Homepage; it loads your nine most used tabs. Just in case you are in the habit of looking at porn sites and don't want little Sis to turn on the computer and see a porn tab you can use incognito mode for a tab which won't remember anything, no History and it deletes cookies. (Page 22) Sandboxing so that each window is separate from others and won't write files to your hard drive. ---------------------------------------- Code downloaded to my PC will be deleted in due course. WIN XP SP3; IE7, Firefox 3.0, Opera and Safari for Windows; screen resolution usually 1024x768. IE6 on W98 with 800*600. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 4 times, last edit by Wickham at Sep 2, 2008 7:10:15 AM] |
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admin
Advanced Member Joined: Jun 14, 2003 Post Count: 2933 Status: Offline |
Hi, I read a little more about Chrome; the key about this browser is that it is a strike at Mircrosoft Windows! Chrome seems to have been engineered as a web application platform, rather than a simple web browser. Two things it can do that are interesting: 1. Write files to your computer! 2. Ultra fast Javascript engine to make web applications run fast. I have not used it and so I have no opinion. One thing though, Microsoft did something similar to this years ago with IE, they had something called an 'HTA': Hyper Text Application. I actually wrote software using the HTA framework built into IE 5+. Essentially, you name a page with the .hta extension and IE treats it as an application giving you a lot more power like using Windows COM objects, writing to disk etc ... .. I cut my DOM chops (OK, more MS DOM) on this 7-8 years ago. Quote about Chrome: A beta version of the open source browser, called Chrome, is set to be available today. Chrome includes a new JavaScript engine that Google says will power Web applications better and faster than other browsers. Google Gears, which will provide offline access and local storage for Web applications, is also embedded in the browser. Stefan ---------------------------------------- Stefan Mischook Video Tutorial Store | Web Templates ---------------------------------------- [Edit 3 times, last edit by admin at Sep 2, 2008 2:03:56 PM] |
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Wickham
Advanced Member UK Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Post Count: 590 Status: Offline |
It's now available http://www.google.com/chrome No problem downloading and installing and no problems so far. ---------------------------------------- Code downloaded to my PC will be deleted in due course. WIN XP SP3; IE7, Firefox 3.0, Opera and Safari for Windows; screen resolution usually 1024x768. IE6 on W98 with 800*600. |
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tpattison
Advanced Member UK Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Post Count: 1662 Status: Offline |
The download is 457K! Is that the whole thing? ---------------------------------------- Pavonis Mons | Listen of the week: "Residue of Desire" by Acumen |
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Wickham
Advanced Member UK Joined: Sep 17, 2007 Post Count: 590 Status: Offline |
The download is 457K! Is that the whole thing? I thought that too! It's just a set up file which then downloads everything else (no record left on my PC about how much it was). ---------------------------------------- Code downloaded to my PC will be deleted in due course. WIN XP SP3; IE7, Firefox 3.0, Opera and Safari for Windows; screen resolution usually 1024x768. IE6 on W98 with 800*600. |
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