Google’s New Browser Chrome Finally Here
As of today, Google’s new browser, labeled “Chrome,” comes out. It’s going to be interesting seeing what its like and how it works.
The All Things Digital blog was one of the first to pick up on Google’s official announcement; apparently earlier today, Swisher was informed by various sources that the browser was going to be launched tomorrow. And it doesn’t appear to be a joke; Google announced it at around 2pm today. They said they sent an “early” email out with a comic centered on the new browser.
Apparently the new browser is designed to handle complex web applications more easily, which they hope will challenge existing browsers.
“As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.
So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.”
The version is still in beta so we’ll see where it takes us, but overall an exciting new development from Google. Chrome’s creators built it on the open-source rendering engine Webkit. This ensures it will use memory efficiently, adapt well to embedded devices and make it easier for the code to work like its supposed to. Chrome is open-source and Google is encouraging people to share and develop ideas off of it.
How well will it work? How does it compare with IE, Firefox or Safari? Are there any bugs? What’s the user experience like? We’ll answer these questions and review it in-depth tomorrow after we’ve downloaded the browser. For now, we can’t wait to try it out. How about you?
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