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Google Chrome - Google New Browser
By Find2k | September 4, 2008
Google have launched its brand new browser “Google Chrome”
I have downloaded Google chrome and believe me the look and feel, the shortcuts are very similar to that of Mozilla and as you start working on you feel see the capabilities of this browser is far better than other players in market till now.
Want to know more about why Google thought of a browser, read this explanation from Google itself: A fresh take on this new browser:
At Google, we spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And like all of you, in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends - all using a browser. People are spending an increasing amount of time online, and they’re doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago.
Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.
So today we’re releasing the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome.
On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff - the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.
This is just the beginning - Google Chrome is far from done. We’ve released this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and we’ll continue to make it even faster and more robust.
They also thanked the sources from where they got the help in coding, they said that we owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others - and in that spirit, we are making our entire code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.
The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.
After this there were many positive and negative feedbacks given to this launch… But I personally liked this:
For companies, any improvement in the Web as a platform should be welcomed: Businesses want their Web applications to be stable and fast and anything Google can do to make Web applications more robust and more competitive with desktops apps promises improved productivity and happier users.
If you haven’t seen Chrome in action yet, take a spin through our Google Chrome image gallery and have a look at the browser that’s being touted as a game-changer.
Chrome was made available for free download on Tuesday, and was trumpeted as a faster, more stable alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which is used by around three-quarters of surfers.
But Google’s chief executive has now admitted that their was a “defensive component” to the hurried release, as the firm seeks to prevent its other services – which include search, email, mapping and desktop publishing – from being outflanked.
“Microsoft has a history of favoring its own applications and I can give you 500,000 pages of court testimony, document web blogs and so forth and so on about that,” Eric Schmidt told the Financial Times.
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