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Chrome hands-on: Teething pains & Terms of Service privacy concerns

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 2nd 2008 4 Comments

Google Chrome 1After several hours running Chrome and exploring its functionality, hands-on reports are coming in from all over the web.  As you might expect for the first release of beta software – even software Google claim has been in development for two years and tested thoroughly at the Googleplex – there are various bug sightings and issues.  Multiple SlashGear readers are finding that vertical scrolling, particularly on notebook touchpads, is presenting some problems, with the most common complaint being an inability to scroll back up the page.

Check out the video walk-though of the Google Chrome browser after the cut

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Google Chrome browser available to download; Install feedback

By Chris Davies and Vincent Nguyen on Tuesday, Sep 2nd 2008 53 Comments

Google’s Chrome browser is now available for download.  The Chrome site now has details of the browser’s functionality, including video interviews with the development team and video demos of each major feature.  However this first beta release is only available for Windows XP and Vista; Mac and Linux owners will have to wait.

First impressions of the Google Chrome browser after the cut

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Chrome is coming – why should we care?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 2nd 2008 1 Comment

Google have already admitted that they pulled the trigger a little early on the Chrome announcement yesterday; it was meant to hit the headlines today, in fact.  As of writing, the www.google.com/chrome site still isn’t live, which means all we have to go on is the Chrome comic and some background understanding of Google’s webapp offerings.

Chrome is Google’s next step toward making webapps behave – or users treat them – more like traditional desktop apps.  Address bar and window-free apps are just the surface gloss; what’s key to Chrome’s likely success is its native inclusion of Google Gears and the custom JavaScript app, V8, that the company has had a special team working on. 

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Google Chrome browser announced: integrated search, improved JavaScript

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 1st 2008 12 Comments

Google Chrome browser logoGoogle have announced plans to take on Microsoft and Firefox with their own open-source browser, codenamed Chrome, by releasing a specially drawn comic by Scott McCloud explaining the app.  Based on the existing Webkit rendering engine, Chrome will integrate not only tab-based browsing but Google Gears and a newly integrated search and address system called Omnibox.

Omnibox will replace the individual address and search boxes and offer search suggestions, popular pages and history pages.  It will also automatically replicate a webpage’s own search box, allowing site and query strings to be entered simultaneously.  An Amazon search, for instance, could be triggered by entering “amazon”, pressing tab and then the search term.

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