Google launches Chrome
Published September 2, 2008 by Me
Google have let the cat out of their bag (apparently a little earlier than planned) and announced the up-coming release of their own browser, called Chrome. On the official Google blog, they say:
All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we 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 with Internet Explorer, Firefox (sponsored by Google), Opera, Safari, and several others already in use, do we really need another browser? Well Google seem to think so, and they promise to make it open-source and available for multiple platforms. They’ve even produced a comic strip to explain what they’re doing.
I’m trying to promise myself that I won’t be drawn in to installing yet another browser on my development machine here but, of course, the geeky side of me will yearn to give it a test drive, reasoning that if I develop web sites I have to test their performance within all the available popular browsers that my site visitors might use.
Oh well – I guess it’s time to order yet another bigger disk drive for my dev. machine.
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