Posted on Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 21:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Google just released the first beta version of its Chrome browser, you can grab it
over here.
At Google, we spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And like all of you, in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends - all using a browser. People are spending an increasing amount of time online, and they're doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago.
Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.
So today we're releasing the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome.
I gave it a quick try but I'm not really impressed. Firefox, and even Internet Explorer, are more user friendly IMO. Chrome does have a couple of nice new features though.
