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Looks interesting, new browser, open sauce, seems to have some good ideas, uses the same rendering engine as safari, so that might be bad.

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html

Should I be suspicious that it's called Google?

Dog Pants wrote:Should I be suspicious that it's called Google?

Assuming you're scared of Google, Yes

I'll just stick with Firefox for now I think.

Dog Pants wrote:I'll just stick with Firefox for now I think.

but still, new interesting thing is new and interesting.

Dog Pants wrote:I'll just stick with Firefox for now I think.

There'd have to be a fairly compelling reason for me to move to it I reckon.

Lateralus wrote: There'd have to be a fairly compelling reason for me to move to it I reckon.

Indeed. However, I might drop it on my test machine and have a play when it's up and running. I like the name 'onmibox' also.

I'll certainly give it a go.
Opinion seems to be split between cautious optimism and fidgety tin-foil-hatism. It's open source though, so you can bet there'll be people scouring the code for any sign of dirty dealings.
Alternatively, sit back and wait for Firefox/your-browser-of-choice to implement some of those shiny new features. Shouldn't be too long.

Interesting development as Google just extended their deal with Mozila Inc to keep google as FF's default search engine.

Personally I don't really care, there's enough browsers on the market. But it could get some more users off of IE, which would be good.

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Well, the beta's out.
http://www.google.com/chrome/

First impressions:
- First problem is that it doesn't maximize properly for me. I usually browse on the smaller of my two screens, but it maximizes to the resolution of my larger screen. Whoops.

- No autoscroll (middle-click)

- It's very simple and clean, but that also means it's not very configurable.

It's quite quick though.

edit: Oh, and it installs GoogleUpdater, which runs at startup. (disable it with msconfig)

Stoat wrote:edit: Oh, and it installs GoogleUpdater, which runs at startup. (disable it with msconfig)

but it does seems quite fast

Fucks sake. Does it mention it in any way or does it sneak onto your pc?

HereComesPete wrote:Fucks sake. Does it mention it in any way or does it sneak onto your pc?

Well in regard to apple bonjour it's more a given how open to abuse it is, and how fucking cheeky they are.

Apparently it has a flaw that allows execution of code with 2 mouse clicks on a naughty page. It also has a flaw that can silently download a file to your desktop. Combine the 2 and you've got epic fail.

Fear wrote:Apparently it has a flaw that allows execution of code with 2 mouse clicks on a naughty page. It also has a flaw that can silently download a file to your desktop. Combine the 2 and you've got epic fail.

Linky? I can't find anything in the usual places. Not massively surprising though. Firefox 3 had a good few hours after release.
edit: Ah, I see, unfixed Webkit bugs. Tsktsk.

Hmm, well, the google updater got caught by S&D's TeaTimer trying to write its registry entry and told to fuck off. Rather annoying though.

That said, I actually quite like the browser. It strikes me as something you'd bung on a media centre pc or something lightweight, but it's still quite nice and pages seem to load nice and quickly.

However, it isn't about to drag me away from the FF/Opera setup I currently have.

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