IMHO, you can really tell the WebKit/Safari heritage of Chrome.
Safari already has the drag+drop tabs, drag tab to make a new window,
fast javascript engine, privacy mode, etc.
The only really "new" feature of Chrome from what I can tell is that
each tab runs in its own process, though apparently IE8 is going
massively multithreaded as well--preparing for the inevitable
ubiquitous multicore future no doubt.
Anyway, fairly nifty little browser, though I don't really have any
compelling reason to use it.
Question--does the Chrome window look like a "Vista" window for
everyone?? I was running it on w2k3 server, and was surprised to see
the vista style maximize/close/etc buttons.
Scott
On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Brian Weeden wrote:
Chrome uses WebKit <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit> and is not
based on
either IE or FF, although there
reportedly<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome>are some FF bits
in there somewhere. Not sure exactly which ones. WebKit
is open source and it looks like Chrome might be as well through the
Chromium project.
One interesting bit is that Chrome has an "incognito' mode (ala
Opera's
"Porn Mode") where once enabled the browser won't log any cookies, URL
history, or any cache files. There's an extension for FF3 called
Stealther<http://lifehacker.com/software/privacy/download-of-the-day-stealther-firefox-extension-174752.php
>which
does the same thing.
And if you are really concerned there's always the
TorButton<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275>FF
extension which routes your browser session through the Tor network,
making it about as anonymous as currenltly possible. Tor can be
darn slow
though.
------
Brian
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:29 PM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Soren, I thought about that also. Interesting.............. :)
Duncan
At 00:56 09/03/2008 -0400, you wrote:
Heh-he.. That's indeed interesting - yet another IE piggy backing
browser,
nice. Or not.
Free Google Chrome Browser - like in "free lunch" and "free beer",
all at
once?
Personally, I'd prefer absolutely NO data mining of my surfing
habits and
email communication, period.
What's next? Google Passport? Free Google cleaning in your home
(and of
all drawers, of course ;)?
To be able to piggy back a browser off IE, the browser provider
must have
some kind of cooperation with MS, as they are as closed as can get
about
closed API's.
As far as I know, the Google Chrome Bowser is developed in
cooperation
with FF/Moz team.
Maybe both Google and Mozilla has been made so called 'useable
idiots' by
MS to take FF off the market.
Smart move.
Best,
Soren
DHSinclair wrote:
Thanks Alex,
Odd and interesting. Believe I will wait until this list's
browser-mavens
pass judgement. ATM, I am happy with FF. Happier still that I
have put IE7
into the background!
Duncan
At 12:30 09/02/2008 -0700, you wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:18:43 -0700, Alex wrote
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:07:25 -0400, DHSinclair wrote
What is the opinion(s) of the new Google Chrome browser?
I am concerned about any backwash against FF ATM.
Duncan
trying to download it now, nothing happening
initial 5 mins with my standard slew of websites.
looks slick, feels faster than FF3
need ad-blocking plugins as well as proxy configuration (reads
off IE
control
panel)
