Download Google Chrome Web Browser: Microsoft and Mozilla killer
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: September 2, 2008 | 40 Comments
Today you will be able to download the new Google Chrome Web Browser, we are not sure what time the download will be ready, but we will keep you informed.
I have to wonder that now Google have put their might behind a web browser of their own, could this be a Microsoft and Mozilla killer. Google Chrome will now go head to head with Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Google will be holding a conference today, 11 a.m. PDT. The meeting will be held at Mountain View, Calif., where there will be a live blog. Once Google Chrome is available we will give you all the details about the download.
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@ coupland: witness the myriad of addons for the Mozilla family of browsers. Show me the equivalent for IE…………
The reason I say another open source browser may hurt IE, is that Microsoft will not open source THEIR browser, so that users worldwide can improve on it. Those people who WANT to hack browsers and make them better, are working for people like - oh, let me think - oh - how about GOOGLE and MOZILLA!! Those people who DO NOT work for Google and Mozilla, but still want to hack a browser are going to work on Google or Mozilla browsers, or some other OPEN SOURCE browser. They CANNOT work on IE. It is proprietary, it is trash, and the people who care can not change a thing about it.
@ key: EVERYBODY beats microsoft with their browser technology! IE is the least standards compliant browser on the market, the most bloated, and the least tweakable.
There are less chances for popularity of IE getting hurt. The reason behind it is that many people do not even know there is any browser other than IE. IE is still popular despite the fact that Mozilla Firefox is way ahead of it.
I just hope we don’t need to write our code to accommodate ANOTHER browser. Please oh please be similar to Firefox!
“Google browser Chrome is not going to come even close to Microsoft. There is no way they can beat Microsoft in browser technology…..”
Great lame quote above. This must be Bill Gates chiming in. Almost everybody I know and almost everybody on the internet feels that IE sucks big time. Even IE 8 sucks huge. IE 8 is only usable if you enable IE 7 emulation. You can bet everyone will download Google Chrome and give it a try. If they like it, goodbye to IE and Firefox forever. I got news for you IE freakin’ sucks!!!
“Google browser Chrome is not going to come even close to Microsoft. There is no way they can beat Microsoft in browser technology…..”
HAHA - are you joking? Microsoft’s browser isn’t even standards compliant for several things. In their almighty wisdom they chose to not include some things which make it hell for the rest of web developers in the world creating cross browser compliant websites a pain in the rear as we have to include stylesheets specifically for IE6, IE7, and NOW IE8!
I HATE Microsoft…. wast so much time on IE crap. FireFox has only really started gaining popularity over the past few years, but one thing that beats IE hands down is the plugin system. Lets see Microsoft release IE as open source then maybe we can have a civilized conversation, yeah?
Runaway1956 you are funny, great entertainment. I love arguments fueled by opinions and not by facts!
@Runaway1956,
You don’t get it! Do you???
Everything opensource ends up on the list of obsoletes. It’s simple economics…You pay for a product, you WILL get the service. I am no advocate of MS, but we live in a capitalist world. Having been in this industry for sometime now, I know the pain of using an unsupported product. I don’t have time to read through 500 pages to code a fix or enhancement to an open source product. I would rather pick up the phone and call the customer service rep at MS or Oracle and ask for help since I have paid for their product.
Yes, there are and always will be people who flock for freebies and I guess these opensource products are meant for those. But they use these at their own risk
Firefox got tabs = IE got tabs. Microsoft didn’t have to open source IE code to take advantage of developments in open source browsers. The point I’m making is, IE can still take on any changes that are introduced out there. Open sourced competitors don’t make IE weaker. It actually makes it stronger. I use Firefox for the majority of my browsing and I’ll check out Chrome but delude yourself by thinking IE is going anywhere.
Linux was first released in 1991, just 6 years after the first release of Windows. Now, 17 years later and Linux is still barely a blip (like 1% marketshare). Open Source is awesome and useful, I use a ton of it. But it’s like free R&D for Microsoft and Apple. Even Apple (also propretary software) has made larger gains in market share than has other open source competitors like Linux (Mac OS is up to around 7.3% market share).
@Runaway1956:
I don’t think anyone is disagreeing with you on the open source angle. In fact, I tend to share a lot of your points about the power of open source, but having said that, I believe that Coupland also has a valid opinion.
When I think of the IE/Mozilla argument, I think of me and my dad. I’m a web developer and software engineer so I value the options that I have with an open source browser like Chrome. On the other hand, I think of someone like my dad who has only recently gotten a new computer and how he will never, ever use any browser except for IE, simply because it was there and available. He’ll learn to use IE and will get comfortable with it.
Is that to say that I’m all knowing and that he’s an idiot? Absolutely not, my father is an intelligent man. But the mass audience of users who pull their pretty Dell computers out of the box will most likely just stick with the browser that they are comfortable with. In most cases, that happens to be the one that is already installed and ready to go on their computers.
Simply put, to people who don’t know the details of browser technology, all it is to them is a neat little window that displays their web site content of choice.
I always find it interesting when little children talk. Runaway1956 if you had any business experience, and don’t tell me you do cause working 5 or 10 years as a hack isn’t business experience, then you would know that open source isn’t always the best. Quite frankly the best use for open source is to get ideas to incorporate into a proprietary system. Once, as a business, you have open source you loose control of your business. People can copy and use all of your ideas easily. Look at Linux. There are companies that sell a version of it but are they as large as MS? Do they even make money? The measure of a successful business is if they are profitable.
Sure Apple uses a version but they run it on a proprietary hardware system. Except for a few thousand units sold a number of years ago no one is allowed to build an Apple. So for them it doesn’t matter if their OS is open source or not, their hardware is.
The bottom line is people feel secure with a large company that produce solid, if boring, software. From a business perspective most companies will not allow anyone to use anything on their system other than approved sofyware that was paid for legally. Shareware and open source is not allowed unless the IT department installs it on the various PCs. Sure you will be able to point to a company that doesn’t lock down their desktops and allows employees to install any softweare they want to but by and large most moderate to large national and international companies will not. It’s safer and easier to support.
So if MS’s browser is behind in functions who really cares except a few geeks and children that have nothing to do all day except complain. As for me, give me a company that will support me when I need it and a product that does exactly what I need, and in this case I need the ability to look up information and do research and that works just fine for me. When the day is done I go relax with a good bottle of wine, a fine meal and my best friend my wife.
When you grow up you will do the same thing but until then enjoy bitching it’s the only thing you can do for free.