Google Chrome: 24 hours later

So Google Chrome has produced some interesting debates, some people seem to be fans, some people seem to dislike the simple interface.

Personally, I quite like it but the (current) lack of plug-in support pretty much defaults me back to using Firefox. The browser is considerably faster than current browsers, both at initial boot-up and at loading JavaScript heavy web pages - this is due to the Google Chrome browser generating machine code from the page’s JavaScript meaning everything can execute that much quicker.

So what’s been happening around the web?

• Wired went back 16 days to when they visited Google’s campus and first met the browser-to-be:
  Wired: Inside Chrome
• The first security flaw has been found:
  ReadWriteWeb: Security flaw in Google Chrome
• And there’s also been some controversy about the Terms and Conditions - apparently Google ownz j0:
  Tap The Hive: This post not made in Chrome - Google’s EULA sucks
  (UPDATE: and now they don’t)

Well, it happened. After all the rumours throughout the years - Google have finally released their own browser, and a lot quicker than we expected. Turns out the comic released yesterday was accidently leaked one day earlier than planned.

You can download Google Chrome from the website: http://www.google.com/chrome - what do you think?

For those who need guidance, there’s a list of Google Chrome’s features here (at the time of writing, the accompanying videos are unavailable):

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/features.html

And there’s a Google Chrome FAQ for web developers here:

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/webmasters-faq.html

Chrome’s rendering engine is WebKit, so it renders pages similar to Safari 3.1.

This page also details the tools available for developers: Web Inspector, Task Manager and JavaScript Debugger.

We’ll be following this story all week, so stay tuned for more as it develops.

File this under rumour for the moment but Blogoscoped have just revealed that apparently Google are to release their own web browser, called Google Chrome.

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

There’s a comic-style presentation here with cartoons of the Google Engineers:

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

Hopefully there will be some more clarification and confirmation on Chrome in the next few days…

Keep an eye on http://www.google.com/chrome