After a lot of rumors about google’s intentions of launching a web browser, and a lot of early screenshots of the application emerging in the blogoshere google has made the official announcement on there blog.
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.
So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.
The company is hosting a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters Tuesday at 11 a.m. PDT. I will be there and will live blog.
Where can you download Google’s Chrome Browser?
Update: You can download Google Chrome Here.
You cant download it yet, they released a comic book in witch you can see some of the browser features:
- Includes a brand new JavaScript virtual machine called V8
- Tabs wil go above the window, not below the address bar
- Location bar will support auto-complete functions and suggests web pages you’ve previously visited as well as suggested sites you haven’t
- Upon launch, you’ll see an Opera-like speed dial with bookmarks and thumbnails for up to web sites
There will be a privacy mode that allows you to surf without saving any personal history (Microsoft is building a similar feature into Internet Explorer
- The browser will constantly download up to date information about web sites with malicious code
Chrome will also utilize Google Gears to allow you to save many web sites and applications for offline use. And web applications will be isolated from other browser tabs, so if Google Docs or another app crashes, your browser won’t automatically close.
Google’s first screenshot of Chrome.
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