Google Chrome is launched today. An open source browser aimed directly at IE7 and Firefox in attempt [we suggest] to package more tools into one location, for the benefit of the consumer, and of course to sell more stuff.
The official announcement is here.
We will be writing more about this once we have had a play, stay tuned!
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Downloaded it… and I have to say I’m liking it. Especially the predictive address bar and new tab ‘most visited’ thumbnails.
Yes, likewise. It’s taking me a little while to remember I can search through the url tab, and I need to install some more plugins, but so far so good. The comic was a nice touch too.
Think it’s great though Ad Center is unusable with it and DFA simply doesn’t appear.
I think its a considerable amount of development time and money just to create a product to integrate their services, and when you consider Google bankroll Mozilla, I’m left a little confused at the direction this project is heading in. Google to take over Mozilla if Chrome’s market share doesn’t develop it into a serious competitor?
But it hasn’t launched on a mac yet! Safari’s market share is safe for the time being!
In the EULA (the end-user license agreement, the bit that you normally click next on) is a sneaky bit of small print which if I’m interpreting correctly, is not particularly encouraging on the privacy side or at all in fact.
“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services.”
I remember using Netscape when I was at school, now that was a browser! They went from 100% market share to less than 1% in the blink of an eye lid.