Google to Release Browser Named 'Chrome' on 09/02

Having spent a fair amount of time exploring their developer documentation, I'd say "what gives" is that they're doing it right instead of going the quick and dirty route.

i've been using chrome for two months and it beats the eff outta ie and firefox for pretty much everything i use it for. i'm not a tech heavy kinda person though so most of my interwebbing is just watching movies to kill time or logging into journal services for research/school stuff...but i have to say that both ie and firefox always took forever and crashed all the time compared to chrome.

I really miss two things when I use Chrome - ad block, and being able to turn off autospellchecking. If they had those things, there would be no reason for me to ever go back to Firefox.

As it is, I still don't go back to Firefox much, but there's some level of temptation there.

I'm not impressed by Chrome. Mozilla managed to release Firefox for all three platforms at the same time but the mighty Google could only handle Windows?

The way a company chooses to release a product on multiple platforms is really only a comment on that company's development strategies, not on the product itself. From what I gather, Google's first priority was to get some serious testing done on their engine, which meant getting it to as many users as possible as quickly as possible, which meant Windows.

And Firefox didn't launch simultaneously on all three platforms. The first Mac version was 0.6. They released for OS/2 before the Mac, which is an even bigger shock, given that much of the code was based upon the Mozilla browser, which was available on the Mac.

Fair enough, but I was referring to Firefox 3.

That's not a fair comparison. Firefox was already a well-established cross-platform project with a sizable developer community by the time version 3 began development.

Chrome still sucks.