Google Chrome?
September 2, 2008 @ 22:59
You know you’ve failed as a geek and a blogger when even your not-that-geeky-but-still-legendary ex-pastor has even posted about Google Chrome.
Of what they’ve revealed so far I’m pretty excited:
- Open-source under a BSD license (can this interoperate with Qt?)
- Using Webkit
- A fairly rigorous test sweet meaning it should actually work on a decent number of sites
- Using a public source-code repository
- A process per-tab and per-plugin to stop the whole browser crashing
- Google Gears built in (hopefully increasing its use)
- Linux and Mac versions in the works
- A fast JIT Javascript engine
Even if people don’t like the browser its nice that this is being developed in the open and that this tech is being available to people under a liberal license. Personally, if it actually works as well as claimed I can see it becoming my primary browser. I’m not certain what the GUI engine is but it looks like something home-brew from what little look I’ve had at the source code.
To be honest, I wish I was still using Konqueror instead of Firefox but sadly Konqueror is too unstable and unsupported by too many sites for it to be usable for my daily work. Hopefully this will change when Webkit is a fully supported backend but until then looks like it’s non-KDE browsing for me 
Until then, roll on the Linux version of Chrome!
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I’m pretty sure that BSD-like licences are compatible with pretty much anything, or at least that’s their intention. I think Google would be very wise to use Qt.
I’m curious to see how / if they provide an extension framework similar to Firefox’s. Will they use a XUL-like interface language? Scripting support à la QtScript? If they don’t get that right, they’ll certainly not win over the Firefox userbase that relies on extensions (as I do!) I’m very excited to see this develop.
Comment by Paul Gideon Dann — September 3, 2008 @ 08:15
Precursor to Google OS?
Or just a precursor to the invasion of earth by Google corp?
Comment by Chris H — September 3, 2008 @ 18:27
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