Google Chrome Goes Back Into Beta for 2.0
While all the browser talk today will center around the release of Internet Explorer 8, those who want to be different or just try new things should take notice of Google’s Chrome browser heading back into beta.
Earlier this week, Google released a beta for its version 2.0 Chrome browser, which promises noticeably faster speeds. “The best thing about this new beta is speed--it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version,” as noted on the Chrome blog.
Chrome is based off of the open source Webkit browser code, just like Apple’s Safari. Thanks to continuous new builds of Webkit, Chrome 2.0 will feature form autofill, full page zoom and autoscroll. Tab dragging has also been updated too, now with a side-by-side view.
Given that the 1.x version of Chrome is already regarded as being very quick, the beta should be even faster. If you have the need for speed, try it here.
Someone will argue "efficiency of the system as a whole will have an aggregate effect that is measurable and highly valuable"...blah blah blah, it's just a few seconds!
Anyway... I won't use Chrome because of the processes that stay on even when the browser isn't. That, and Google watches people, and I'm not really ok with that.
I won't be trying this. I don't like Google and Chrome.
I installed the first beta when it came out.. I used it for a day or so then went back to FF and IE7 work work.. The following week they locked it down so that Chrome will not even work on a computer joined to our domain.. Its on my quick launch and I click it accidentally from time to time and I get the "Windows can not open this program due to a software restriction policy..."
Speed is important and difference can be very noticeable.
Chrome is extremly efficient at startup and page load.
But, I think the whole thing here for Google is to offer a platform that can handle fast and reliable DOM change, something that current browsers are very weak to process.
Modify the DOM and it can take forever for the engine to refresh the display. With the widespread of AJAX and rich client desktop like Widget, it becomes a necessity.
Speed and Chrome makes sense for the next generation of very rich Web Application that will match or even surpass their desktop counterparts.
We are talking here of applications with tons of JavaScript, CSS 2.1, AJAX, DHTML, and Vector Graphics like in FLEX, Silverlight, SVG.
In my work, we are migrating a very rich ERP desktop application to the web and do see better perf with Chrome than desktop, while IE and FF are slower.
If Google wants to take over Office & Windows from Microsoft, they need something like Chrome.
But we could also say the same for Microsoft. They would not exist as we know without IBM, Apple and Xerox PARC.
Moreover, Windows is a response to Macintosh,
C# and .NET is a response to Java,
It took a lot of time for Microsoft to accept Internet,
SQLServer just catched up with other RDBS like Oracle,
Office has competitors that do mostly the same job
...
That Microsoft is the number 1 software company today, doesn't prove it will be number one in 50 years. They officially said several times that Google was their first and most important competitor in the future.
Anyway, what is your point ?
That Google shouldn't release a new version of their browser because Microsoft is Number 1?
That no company should try to compete with Microsoft?
their is nothing more important to any industry than competition. normally competition increases the quality and decreases the price of products. i just don't like how people look at what google has done in the last 2+ years and saying it is a serious competition to MS.
"If Google wants to take over Office & Windows from Microsoft, they need something like Chrome."
i know it is a hypothetical statement, but MS makes almost every software component that is used in the average office computer. when someone says google is competing with microsoft, it seems like he/she is seriously jumping the gun and looking way into the unforseable future.
i don't intend to tear into people who use crome ( i'm using it right now), nor am i impleing the market shouldn't have competition. it is wrong to make predictions about google out performing MS google is so small and young. google has been developing a program to brouse the internet while MS has gone into deeper stuff like OS manufacturing and improved it with for years. if google one day creates an OS i would definately be interested in it.
But thousand of companies are competing today with Microsoft !!!
How can you be so ignorant!
STEVE BALLMER
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2008/10-02cigref.mspx
Clearly, Microsoft said several times they see Google as their biggest competitor in the future. WAKE UP!
Plus Microsoft is very young too!
Plus, who cares if a company is young or old?
General Motors or IBM are much older, does it change anything?
I still don't understand what you are trying to show cheepstuff.
That Google shouldn't try to attract Microsoft customers with a new generation of online Application?
Plus, the key component in the future might be the browser itself, not the OS any more...
its called induction. with induction your going from specific to general. the longer a company has stably been around, the more likley it is that it will be around. that is not to say that it will be around forever because induction also tells you that nothing lasts forever.
I still don't understand what you are trying to show cheepstuffThat Google shouldn't try to attract Microsoft customers with a new generation of online Application?
if you actually bothered to read my posts you would already know my opinions on that
now thats more like it!