Google Chrome has launched, download it now. The source is available under a permissive BSD style license. Find out more at the Chromium website andblog.
I love browsers, and so I’m really excited that this project and the amazing team that I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of has finally shipped.
Cool~
Amazing~
But does it come with AdBlock or AdBlock Plus (ala Firefox)?
Hey, I’ve been wondering what you’ve been doing all these years! Cool!
I hope Google put all their might behind marketing this browser to quickly improve the state of things on the web.
And they should drop the following from the EULA “By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services.”
What’s the point of making open source software if it’s not available on an open source operating system? Why can’t google that talks so much about open source do something truly open source??
Hi Ben,
I like chrome but when you and Brian started the second part of the chrome features video with tabs you guys keep missing the boat. Yes you have done some nice things going on but keep forgetting about the basics. Drop me an email and I would be glad to share my ideas to ensure a great user experience with tabs on a browser. Dan Shaw Systems Eng.
Hi Ben,
One more thing I just clicked on your subscribe link and it bailed. Please tell me tested chrome with your own web pages and blogs
Dan
chrome is new, but maybe google will make it big
Hey Ben,
I have one simple question. Concerning the use of the BSD license - are you seriously saying we can take the Chrome code (which I’ve just downloaded), port the browser to FreeBSD and remove all the “surveillance” issues (aka. statistics), as in all backwards communication to Google? Because the BSD license would allow that, no trouble at all - but is it truly the BSD license we’re working with here?
Could you PLEASE pass on the suggestion to the powers that be that “active installers” suck?.
Maybe for newbies an “active installer” is OK, but there’s the rest of us who want to be able to download the FULL off-line installer, for placing on a LAN file server, burning to CD etc.
In the meantime the rest of us will just use a packet sniffer and grab the URLs for the EXE full installer and Gears XPI…
With this silly decision to just offer a small installer EXE you’re copying the worst of AOL when they released Netscape 8. The outcry was so huge that several months later AOL caved in and started offering “full installers” as an option on the download page.
FC
Ben, I love this browser.
How the URL automatically presents itself when you type some things, then press enter, instead of typing it all out or keyboarding down.
The speed is great too.
I love the new tab thing. Though if Recently Closed Tabs was expanded, that’d be great.
Love the prioritization of the bookmarks bar over that starred crap with Firefox 3.
