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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Its not just the browser specs that make up a “Competitive browser” today. Do any one knows the name of browsers such as Amaya (Educational one)? Google will be able to provide more and MORE of features really (the widgets, picasa, youtube, gmail, g chat, calender, docs etc), Even the FF3 browser identifies phishing site using Google’s POWER only, The GEARS technology should be much improvised in their browser, the google desktop might be in sync with their browser., widgets number will obviously be more and useful. Overall it is going to eat out the browser share very significantly.
I just would not compare this to IE, coz its already proven to be THE MOST VULNERABLE browser on earth.
Google - Will you come up with a OS also soon !!??
Nobody has mentioned anything about its speed. The difference between single threaded page loading (IE/FF/Etc) and multi-threaded style page loading (Chrome only so far, unless someone knows of another no-name browser that does it). The built in task manager is just the coolest thing as a dev.
@Mike Young
For the most part I was listening to your argument and slightly agreeing with you (regardless of your condescending attitude) until I got to this quote:
“Back to why companyies use MS products by and large. They do so for standards reasons. The same reason that many that took the time to write their opinions here mentioned. Open source is great but it has no stadards. It can’t be purchased with support and it may not be around next week. As much as you don’t like MS, and as much as I don’t, there is no other good option.”
If we’re talking about the browser only, IE has never been standards compliant. Never. The W3C has had the standards for web development posted and updated for over a decade now and not once has IE ever made the effort to be compliant.
On the flip side, Firefox and now Chrome are standards compliant. Because of this, my job as a Web Developer has been workable. The research that you claim to need is only there because I was able to do my job.
Otis
I don’t agree with you about my condescending attitude, however that’s ok it’s what you preceive and that’s what counts to you.
As far as standards it’s important to distinguish what a group of people setup vs what the business world accepts. Firefox and Chrome could be so standards compliant that evryone loves them and that it makes it so much easier to do your job. That just doesn’t matter for large companies. Again remember my premise that they have hugh IT budgets and by default they drive what eventually gets bought, outside of games and porn which have their own large following. If I am correct, and I know I am having spent years on both sides of the table, selling and buying IT related services, then there is no way that any standards that do not match with MS have a chance of making an indent into sales of MS products. As soon as IE came out the IT world moved to accept it and all of it’s faults. Why, because it made it’s life easier. One installation and complete integration. Other browsers add unneeded complexity that requires extra effort and dollars.
One also needs to ask why Google created Chrome. My understanding is to challege MS in MS’s basic business, selling software. They want to be able to sell alternatives to Office and other MS dominant products. Their concept seems to be that people would rather pay a little at a time to use web based products than buying software that is installed on stand alone PCs. Seems logical but I’m real confident that it is misplaced for a number of reasons.
Many companies have tried this business model. Specifically companies like Citrix who sell Thin Clients. Great idea but not one that has taken the business world by storm. Biggest problem is all of your PCs are out of service if the server goes down or if there is an interruption in connectivity. Google will face the same problems. In addition why be held hostage to a company that you pay for services forever? One other import point is many companies still use win95. You would be amazed how many still haven’t made the change to 98 or XP. The main reason is what they mostly have to do runs on 95 just as well as it does on 98, 2000, XP, Vista or any Server based software. Why change or upgrade?
I realize that I have ramblled and may not be on target but the bottom line is standards are what most accept as standards. Doesn’t matter if something is better. We all know of products that were better but the most comonally accept products were the ones that set the standards. Just look at Betamax vs VHS or the IBM’s Micro Channel Bus vs the standard PC bus. MCA was superior but it came with a price. The PC bus was free. Now I know you will use this as an argument for Chrome. But it isn’t. Chrome is not free for a company. There are costs associated with it’s installation and support and most everyday people are familiar with IE, they use it at home and it makes the learning curve easier. Training and support cost are much larger than the initial purchase cost and that’s why companies will stay with IE for the near future.
Because of this, my job as a Web Developer has been workable
Thank you, Otis.
@ Mike: You are alright with corporate America deciding what is best? Awesome. You have some concept of life, I must say. I HATE to bring politics into this sort of discussion - but you should visit the New American Century´s homepage. Basically, corporate America envisions everyone in the world working to make a buck for the Wall Street crowd.
Not my idea of Utopia, at least.
The point is - what is best for Corporate America may not be what is best for you, or for me, or for the kid down the street, or for the generations to be born.
Ultimately, Microsoft´s legacy to the world will be that they delayed development of computer science. And, Internet Explorer is part of that delay.
Look at Java. MS switched horses in the middle of the stream multiple times on that. First, it was unimportant, then it was terribly important, so they worked with outsiders. Then, it was so terribly important that they ¨developed¨ their own. Finally, a case was won by Sun, and Microsoft´s Java machine was abandoned.
It would have been BEST for MICROSOFT if the case had gone in Microsoft´s favor, of course.
Ho-hum. Way off track, but pertinent to your arguments.
very good
@Runaway
It’s funny. I much preferred Microsoft’s java client. It wasn’t some kind of nagging annoying software that refused to unload from the system tray. It loaded from Internet Explorer when it was needed and that was it. There was nothing to support. Working in tech services, I can tell you that it’s been annoying for novice users and they’d rather not deal with it.
@Mike Young
I’m not disagreeing with you that the standards that most people use (business and personal) are those that most people will find easier to both adapt to and implement. IE has 65% of the market share simply because it is build with Microsoft Windows in all of it’s incarnations, and because of this reaches the most people worldwide. As I’ve said before, I think of my father who uses IE because it’s there, it’s intuitive for him, and it’s simply a window to the internet.
However, we’re talking about 2 different types of standards. W3C standards are those that explain the coding involved in creating web sites and what should be supported by all browsers. In this way, the same code will work for IE, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Safari, and now Chrome. From a business perspective, when you want to inform potential customers of your products and services, it would be in the best interest of that entity to be able to present that information to all members of the market.
This is IE’s shortfall. Microsoft has been consistently lacking in being standard compliant, and that is MY issue specifically with IE. The business reasons for supporting IE as a large portion of the market is definitely there, and I agree with you for the most part in that portion of the argument. However, for a browser who basically controls the largest portion of the market share to be non-standards compliant is not only detrimental to those who wish to find services and products to buy, but ultimately costs those corporations more money in general to develop those services to be accessible to customers using IE.
The standards set by the market is definitely well defined and I have no arguments there regarding choice of browser.
However, even Microsoft has agreed to follow the standards of the W3C since just about every other major competitive browser developer has also done so. The fact that they haven’t is both tragic and detrimental to not only those corporations that support it, but also those customers who use it.
google chrome is the best
I am so very pleased that Google understands browser Hell. I look forward to trying something new! Hopefully responsive and less selfish or manipulative than others. I must be sending 5 or 10 error reports a day due to browser failures. Did defreg, clean-up, freed up 1/2 the space on the hard drive, increased vrtual memory size and still get slow service, freezing, etc…. Sad when you pay good money for a high speed server and get grappy service and manipulation from browsers ….