Google creating its own browser based on WebKit

The comic really doesn't say WHY Google is releasing a new browser. There is a rumor that Microsoft is planning to add a feature to IE8 that would block Google ads (to make a more pleasant surfing experience for its users). If that is true that would be a HUGE negative impact on Google's revenues. Some see Google move to introduce its own browser as a pre-emptive move.

You should also note that Google has been a big supporter of Firefox in the past. It would appear that Google had been developing its own browser behind the back of Firefox. This is a move worthy of big bad Microsoft. If you still think "Google is not evil". Think again. It is looking more like a "wolf in sheeps clothing".

"Coming Soon"
HA! They used those same words when GTalk was first released. Oh what's that? Google still hasn't released a Mac client for GTalk? Doh!

I'm pretty much convinced that there isn't anyone at Google that knows a damned thing about programming for Mac.

Judging by how long Gmail has been in beta, I'll assume the Mac version of Chrome won't be out for two years or so.

Its funny that almost everything they are going to do UI wise like seperate control buttons and url box in every tab and shortcuts in every new tab and getting to all kinds of searches via a shortcut in the url box has been available in opera for months if not years :D

However the approach to make a single process of every tab is new, and very promising. i really hate it when one tab kills my whole browser, with 20 other tabs open.

I guess i definitely try it, as soon as its availalbe for the mac, but i will watch the whole thing closely before i use it seriously, given the fact that it is from data collector number one, google.
So far google has not betraied the trust we put into it, but i still have a very uneasy feeling about all the info and dependence on them, google has collected for millions of people.

qwert

This browser will have some impressive improvements (if you read the comic):
- the whole browser can not crash any more (only one tab can, which you can eliminate)
- the processors in the browser are sandboxed so no information can be read from the computer other pages in the browser without consent from the user
- the browser is much quicker with javascript for example.
- better memory management

So: faster, saver, less memomy bloat and crash proof, I can't wait!

(And this is from someone who likes safari and firefox but runs into an occasional crash of long freeze and that is quite annoying when you have a lot of tabs open...)

Google Browser...? I guess one good webbrowser is good enough to surf all the sites and web-apps. Why do we need multiple webbrowsers for different websites..?

Google Browser/eBay Browser/Live Browser.....
It goes on and on and on.......

Wasn't there already an open-source browser on the market? oh yea...it's called Firefox...and it does it's job very good.

I'm all up for having another open-source web browser on the market (especially when it's coming from Google which already brought us some amazing products), but I don't think I'm going to switch over from Firefox anytime soon it at all.
Plus, it's GUI looks a bit "toy-ish" in my opinion, at least from what you can see on the comic book, hope they'll make it more "serious".

"from the ground up", is not really compatible with "based on WebKit".

But I think it's a great idea. I just read a bunch of comments about how Microsoft should drop IE and just adopt FireFox. What a horrible idea. It's only the competition of products that keep any one product in check and on the ball. If Microsoft dropped IE, FireFox would decline in quality and start gearing towards moneization, at the cost of the rest of us. Bring on the Chrome.

I read the entire comic, too, and I am very impressed. I don't know if I will replace Firefox- I use some extensions quite a bit- but I will definitely give this a spin.

I hope that's not their final icon.

To take a page out of Apple's HIG book, primary colors should never be used in interface elements much less icons.