{"id":199,"date":"2008-09-02T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T13:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-09-02T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T13:46:11","slug":"google-goes-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/google-goes-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Google goes Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chromologo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-200\" title=\"chromologo\" src=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chromologo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a>In a move that suprised me quite a bit Google have announced their own web browser.\u00a0 Pitches directly in competion with IE and Firefox but apparently designed from scratch to suit today&#8217;s modern web user &#8211; or some such waffle &#8211; it works a bit differently.<\/p>\n<p>Google have even come out with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlebooks\/chrome\/\" target=\"_blank\">comic to tell the story<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 30 something pages and does get a bit detailed but certainly the first 10 pages show you where they&#8217;re going.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also open source, and I get the feeling they&#8217;re looking for someone like Firefox to pick up their ball and run with it &#8211; Firefox Chrome with a silver fox instead of the usual red one perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>It certainly looks interesting from the screenshots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chromescreen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-201\" title=\"chromescreen\" src=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chromescreen-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Google Chrome Screenshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chromescreen-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chromescreen.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Chrome Screenshot (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The beta is apparently available tomorrow but I&#8217;m hoping that they release an OSX version not just a Windows variety.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve not ignored Apple completely because <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fresh-take-on-browser.html\" target=\"_blank\">googleblog<\/a> makes reference to the fact they borrowed opensource code from &#8220;Apple&#8217;s WebKit and Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox, among others&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that suprised me quite a bit Google have announced their own web browser.\u00a0 Pitches directly in competion with IE and Firefox but apparently designed from scratch to suit today&#8217;s modern web user &#8211; or some such waffle &#8211; it works a bit differently. 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