Serious Potential in Google's Browser
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 04/09/2008 14:07
Does the world really need another Web browser?
Google thinks so. Chrome, its new browser, was developed in secrecy and released to the world Tuesday. The Windows version is available for download now at google.com/chrome; the Mac and Linux versions will take a little longer.
Google argues that current Web browsers were designed eons ago, before so many of the developments that characterize today's Web: video everywhere, scams and spyware, viruses that lurk even on legitimate sites, Web-based games and ambitious Web-based programs like Google's own Docs word processor. As Google's blog puts it, "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."
http://nytimes.com/2008/09/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html
http://iht.com/articles/2008/09/03/business/chrome.php
Google Chrome browser: Review of reviews
Google Chrome, the search giant's first ever web browser, was released to great fanfare on Tuesday, amid talk that it could one day pass Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser.
The version released for free download is only at the beta - testing - stage, but users and critics have been quick to pass early judgment. The consensus? Google Chrome is attractive, fast and has some impressive new features, but may not - yet - be a threat to its Microsoft rival.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/09/03/dlchrome103.xml
