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Google wrote: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.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we 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.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.

This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. We'll post an update here as soon as it's ready.

Ryushikaze wrote:Yeah, I like Firefox as well, but I'm definitely curious about Chrome.

I want the Beta to drop already.

Ace Pace wrote:

Ryushikaze wrote:Yeah, I like Firefox as well, but I'm definitely curious about Chrome.

I want the Beta to drop already.

You mean the beta, or the final beta, which will always be a beta?

Ace Pace wrote:

Ryushikaze wrote:Yeah, I like Firefox as well, but I'm definitely curious about Chrome.

I want the Beta to drop already.

You mean the beta, or the final beta, which will always be a beta?

Pint0 Xtreme wrote:Out of curiosity, what other browsers allocate a process for each tab?

Bounty wrote:No Linux version yet. Boo.

I'm not too sure about Google branching off into browsers. Their apps up until now were things that generally don't have an easy-to-use, widely-available alternative - think SketchUp or Earth - so I'm a bit puzzled why they're branching out into a market that's already split up between free alternatives.

Braedley wrote:Using it right now. It seems zippy, and the interface is nice, but I'm not used to the lack of a status bar at the bottom. I also found a bug while writing this post: in text boxes, when a word wraps to the next line, the letters that were originally on the first line don't immediately appear on the second line. Also, in line additions also fuck up a bit. I'm sure that'll be fixed in no time though.

Now I just need to find the tab settings so that I can get bookmarks and the address bar to open in new tabs. Don't know if this will become my default (I doubt it, I have too much cognitive investment in Firefox), but it's nice to play around in.