Google Chrome

**Buleste** · 2nd September 2008, 10:43

Google are releasing a beta version of their own from the ground up web browser today. It may be good it may be crap but i'll be damned if i can find a download at the moment to give it a try and guarenteed any spyware hunters you have will flag it up straight away.

**Buleste** · 2nd September 2008, 15:20

Screenshots can be found here (Is it me or does the logo look strikingly like Firefox or maybe even a classic Simon?).

**Tiago** · 2nd September 2008, 18:04

Is it availabe now?

**Puni/Void** · 2nd September 2008, 19:52

Apparantly it's not available until tomorrow, as the info about the release wasn't supposed to be out before the day after.

After what I've read on other sites, Google made a bit of mistake there.

Will be interesting to try out this new browser. I'm used to running Firefox, but I'm open to new alternatives.

**AlexJ** · 2nd September 2008, 20:35

Using it now - first impressions are that it's quite a nice UI, maximising website space - the tabs go instead of the titlebar for example. The classicamiga forums for example (quite complex with usage of AJAX etc.) render fine in it. A lot of design feature mimic other browsers - there's a version of Opera's speeddial for example, and the offer to save passwords is done exactly as in Firefox.

A things I haven't seen before like the currently active typing field gets highlighted in yellow.

EDIT: Maybe spoke a little too soon - you can break the rendering of CA if you shrink the window enough.

**Puni/Void** · 2nd September 2008, 20:48

So it is out then?

Looking forward to have a look at this!

**Stephen Coates** · 2nd September 2008, 21:14

Alex, that is not limited to the Google Browser. FireFox and Opera do that as well. Strangley, IE didn't, that just kept the page a certain width and added a horizontal scroll bar.