Google - Chrome

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Permalink Reply by Benoit Coulmont on September 2, 2008 at 10:45pm

I've been playing with Chrome for a bit and it seems pretty fast compared to IE7. It does seem a tad faster than IE8 and the latest Firefox as well. Interface seems clean and uncomplicated... Promising I would say!

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Birk on September 3, 2008 at 12:41am

Right now it seems like a cool idea, although it could turn potentially scary down the road. Google could turn this into a cash cow. I wonder how they will inject some their bread and butter later? Advertising. We know it's coming!

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Williams on September 3, 2008 at 6:43am

I think it's great so far. It does seem faster than IE or Firefox and the implications that Google is developing this as a replacement for Windows intrigues me. One of the most interesting aspects is the Incognito mode, where you can surf the web without having any cookies or other web data stored on your own computer.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Seidle on September 3, 2008 at 8:47am

Jeremy - Incognito mode has a flaw, it still reports existing cookies back to site's you've already visited. That means if you visit a site, and come back, you are not anonymous. Hopefully they fix this and don't leave it in there to make sure ads still work.

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on September 3, 2008 at 8:41am

Installing now....

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on September 3, 2008 at 9:08am

The speed of Google Chrome makes me feel like I have a new car! :) I love it!

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on September 4, 2008 at 7:56pm

Okay... after a couple days usage... I'm not as thrilled as I was. I do miss my add-ons/plug-ins from Firefox...

Chrome is still faster, but I miss a few Firefox perks- the search bar is one of them...

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Permalink Reply by Mike Seidle on September 3, 2008 at 8:45am

Get ready for the browser explosion. The technology behind Chrome is a set of tools called WebKit -- the same engine that powers Safari (Apple's browser), the iPhone, Knoqueror (the Linux browser) and several others with tiny market shares. There are a ton of new browsers in development based on WebKit - ranging from browsers for mobile phones to new ways to do the desktop browser.

Google's special sauce is that Chrome is optimized for running web applications. It's a lot faster at running JavaScript and unlike IE7 and Mozilla, each tab you open in Chrome is a new process meaning that a crash in one tab doesn't require the entire browser to crash. That means that things like GoogleDocs will run much faster and more reliably. I'm very excited about what Google is up to - they are slowly but surely delivering on Sun's old "the network is the computer" tagline.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Stanger on September 3, 2008 at 10:58am

I am suspicious. Google makes their living through advertising. The "Search" is just something to keep you on their web pages where you can't help but see the advertising (the same reason there is music on the radio and programs on television: merely bridges between commercial breaks).
So I would have a difficult time believing that Google isn't tracking people's web habits in order to target advertising to them.

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Permalink Reply by Lorraine Ball on September 3, 2008 at 5:40pm

An article from Today's Harvard Business Publishing explores some of the business implications of Chrome. Interesting perspective, Chrome will if done right undermine not just IE, but the entire Office Suite.

What I enjoyed about this piece is the content is nderstandable for even non-techies.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Seidle on September 7, 2008 at 3:24pm

Lorraine - Google makes no bones about it, they created chrome so Google applications run better.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen James on September 4, 2008 at 10:52am

I'm not too excited. I already have a similar process going on my Mac at work and my PC at home. I use Safari (Webkit--which is the same rendering engine as Chrome) for my web apps--that is Gmail, Google Docs, Remember the Milk, etc.

When I want to read my email or check my ToDo list, I start up these web "pages" in Safari via a Shoretcut/Alias while I browse the web with FireFox.

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