Chrome, Google's New Browser.
The browser war is back on. This time It is not between Firefox, Internet explore and safari. The big boss of internet world also joined this war. Ya, you got it, I am talking about Google. On Tuesday(today) in 100 countries, Google will release a free Web browser called Chrome that the company said would challenge Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, as well as the Firefox browser. But the question that I have in my mind is "Are Internet Explorer and Firefox ready to do battle with Chrome?"
Current scenario of browser market is like this: Microsoft still holds 73 percent of the browser market. The market share for Firefox has climbed to 19 percent, while Apple’s Safari has 6 percent. Last week, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, which includes improved security and new browsing aids. Earlier this summer, Mozilla released Firefox 3, which garnered 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
So Why google is launching new browser??
According to google official blog "Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web." (Directly from google official blog).
What's new?
Google Chrome is an open sourced browser based on the Webkit HTML engine, but adds a new Javascript engine, and some UI changes. To advertise it, they've made a comic, showing the browser's features. Isn't It stupid but brilliant idea, Google is launching its product with a comic. This comic is also available on Google Books There's all sorts of other promises - stability, speed - and Google does have lots of stored sites to test it on.
Interesting: Chrome also puts Google in competition with a friend, the Mozilla Corporation, which manages the Firefox project. Just last week, Google renewed its deal with Mozilla. Under the arrangement, Google Search is the home page for Firefox and Google is its default search bar, and Google makes substantial payments to Mozilla. The agreement runs through November 2011, and will continue.
Its not surprising, after all Google is 100 percent on the web. It would be more surprising if Google didn't do something in the browser space.
7 comments:
When it is frm Google, it's definitely something to look out for....
This was a nice post actually..
Cheers..!!
Arjun
it'll be interesting to see how far this will go. I'll stick to FF for now since its more developer friendly. The one thing i liked about Chrome (from a developer's perspective) is that from the page source i can access javascript, css and other underlying files.
i tried it was good but it failed to run flash objects
hey thanx for the info...many of my friends have downloaded it and have said its gr8...am yet to do so..
Nice post.
Thanks for the information.:)
have a nice weekend.:)
i m trying it ...it seems heavy when i let it run for about more than 6 hrs...
but the gui is simple and attractive (google rocks)...
also on multiple tabs over a certain limit makes it crawl...rest features are good...they run flash also ...they had so funny glitches with EULA but it was soon resolved and the comic thing did worked!!!
I LOVE the google browser 2 times faster than FF, I will stick to this Google chrome browser it is way better than IE and FF.
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