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Google Enters The Browser Market

2008-09-02T19:07:59Z

It's been all over the blog world today... Google's chrome. Well, it is finally out, and it can be downloaded here.

http://www.google.com/chrome

(Windows Only)

Comment from Tim Robles on 2008-09-02

2008-09-02T19:49:05Z

Google does it again with the "it just works" ( Apple ) mentality. It's hard to tell what the performance of the browser will be on a whole since I feel like the hype machine inherently makes it "feel" faster. It'll be interesting to see what some benchmark testing shows, especially with some other RIA based technologies other than JS.

Comment from Joseph Zibara on 2008-09-03

2008-09-03T21:49:21Z

I love Google Chrome, I even joked about switching to a pc (which I use at work) at home. That thing is so light weight! Javascript is rendering in a jiffy. I disapprove of the name, but adore it's simplicity, it really does its job well. I prefer Gtalk to MSN, anybody that sees that would agree that G-Chrome does its job better than any browser.

A thing to ponder on, is their aims towards RIAs. I see it as a boost for Flex applications, but competes with AIR, you'll notice a drop-down, 'Create application...' on any page, and makes it a standalone application. Works wonderfully on Buzzword.com.

It gives an edge to AJAX, but I feel Flash will eventually outrun it. Because that war between Flex, JavaFX, Silverlight was always there, this browser plas along raising awareness to RIAs while being a browser.