Google's New Browser

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Sep 2, 2008 1:41 PM #242614
It's called "Chrome", and a beta is being released today.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

****ing incredible.

What's so great about it?

MULTI-THREADING.
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Sep 2, 2008 2:02 PM #242622
Cool.

Probably won't get it any time soon though.


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Sep 2, 2008 2:12 PM #242625
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Sep 2, 2008 2:33 PM #242628
Waiting to be able to download this since I found out about it yesterday has been excruciating.
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Sep 2, 2008 2:53 PM #242642
Wait wat?

Whats multi threading?

Meh, I'll download it now and see what I thinks.
Edit: Owait, it's not out now?

EDIT: WHEN IS IT COMING OUT DAMMIT :C
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Sep 2, 2008 3:40 PM #242681
I heard about this yesterday, I can't wait to get it.
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Sep 2, 2008 3:45 PM #242688
I'll download it when I can. Although, Opera is alright for me.

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Sep 2, 2008 4:00 PM #242702
What's multi-threading?

I heard it just now on the news, the onyl thing it said was something about closing a page without closing the whole browser. OH GEE, YOU MEAN TABS?
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Sep 2, 2008 4:31 PM #242741
Chrome includes an Incognito mode (similar to Safari's Private Browsing and Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate) which "lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn’t record any of your activity" and discards cookies. When enabled for a window "nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer"[1]


Sounds cool, but I would not trust my privacy with Google.
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Sep 2, 2008 4:47 PM #242758
Quote from MiniMan
Sounds cool, but I would not trust my privacy with Google.


Oh yeah, because google **** with everybody.
Google are the main guys against net neutrality and are like internet superheros.
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Sep 2, 2008 4:48 PM #242759
But didn't they also give out all of their searches done by everyone when the government asked for it?
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Sep 2, 2008 4:49 PM #242761
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But didn't they also give out all of their searches done by everyone when the government asked for it?


I'm sure that was AOL.
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Sep 2, 2008 4:52 PM #242765
You sure? Could have sworn they did.
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Sep 2, 2008 5:03 PM #242773
It's actually beyond multi-threading, it uses multiple processes. This means if one site crashes, only that tab will close. Or, if a plugin crashes, only that plugin will close. I'll be interested to see how much faster they can make JavaScript run; it's a pain to have a page freeze mid-load because some JavaScript is fetching information, although now that won't be problem as it'll be running separately of the renderer.

Wish I didn't have work today, then I could fully test it out...
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Sep 2, 2008 5:03 PM #242774
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You sure? Could have sworn they did.


It was AOL.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massive-amounts-of-user-search-data/