Chrome

Blizzard should make WoW into an OS. It runs Peggle already - Rodfather

Must be joking. Or high. - LANjackal

"In particular, it seems likely that Chrome will be emerge as the smartbook OS of choice, and as a complement to (not a replacement for) Windows on netbooks." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

What's the problem with that feature :) (press tab to search) - Furkan Eralp

great ..thanks .. cool! this my style of neat! lets go with it Chrome:] .. now Il only repeat myself .. "at ANY time focus is not on, type tw:/u:name/text .. which is, twitter off Chrome, NO input boxes or areas necessary .. tw:text to tweet to your default, optional u:twittername where you twitt .. ie, tw:hi ..or, tw:u:petrbuben:hi there .. and so on and so on and on .. smart keyboard shortcuts, really new smart UI .. the future of the web .. the box window into the brain of the world - the Internet - Petr Buben

"But announcing a product a year out is child's play compared to delivering on the massive global shift in resources required to make that product ubiquitous." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Greasemetal is a userscript runtime for Google Chrome. The runtime hosts userscripts (tiny javascript files that modify the webpages being displayed) to be executed on Google Chrome, similar to what Greasemonkey does for Mozilla Firefox, or Greasekit does for Safari. - LouCypher

Yeah, it's Aaron Boodman - LouCypher

"The topics cover news, videos and blogs. What’s interesting with today’s announcement is that users can also share the interesting trending topics on any of the 60+ services that Shareaholic supports which includes Digg, Facebook, Blogger, LinkedIn, ping.fm, etc. Mozilla reports over 1 million activations and the service works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Flock, Safari and Songbird." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

This is so cool! Don't let any other people say it's not! - Chelsea Jurgens

"In a post to the Chrome blog Wednesday afternoon, Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai said the company is working with a variety of PC and chipmakers, and another software company. Those include: Acer, Adobe, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

You guys' guess is as good as mine. Given the existence of Android and all, I'm just confused as hell as to where exactly Chrome OS is supposed to fit. Can anyone tell me if Google had any official netbook partners for Android? Emphasis on *official* - LANjackal from IM

1.The font in most of the websites are smaller than all of the other browsers,and the font is uuuugly popular sites like Twitter, Friendfeed,Facebook etc.It doesn't happen in any other browsers I kind of need to make the fonts bigger manually each time when I use Facebook,it is not comfortable to read.Is it kind of signal that Google don't want people to use competitor's sites? - Steve Chou

2.Chrome font doesn't fit the OS too much,we need the seamless experience when using it on Windows. and it doesn't even work well on some Google sites,it appear exclamation point on https (most of the Google sites included),and it notes "This page contains some insecure content",it is funny to see these notes on Google sites, Googlers never use their own product in Chrome? - Steve Chou

And people are getting pretty crazy in the Chrome help forum,here: http://www.google.com/support... - Steve Chou

Google told me to use the dev version with extention,any idea other than that? - Steve Chou

Really,I tried the dev version before,it crash like crazy,then never try that again.Maybe I'll try this time. - Steve Chou

"Google's security contest called for researchers to examine the code and report potential weaknesses. These were reviewed by a panel of independent judges who tested all of the submitted vulnerabilities. The winning team, IBM researcher Mark Dowd and independent security analyst Ben Hawkes, found a total of twelve vulnerabilities. The second place team, a group of researchers from Matasano Security, found four vulnerabilities." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Highlights in this release: (Mac) Enabled support for the Mac OS X spellchecking service. (Mac) First cut at popup blocking for Mac. (Linux) Accelerator keys like ctl-C for copy should work again. (Linux) Initial support of complex text (e.g. Arabic). Bug reports welcome. (Linux) Initial GTK theme support. (Linux) IME support. (Extensions) Breaking API Change: page_actions.icon renamed... more... - Warren Butler

Yay, now able to drag-and-drop bookmarklets on the bookmarks bar again. - Warren Butler

"The Chrome OS will be far more web-centric than Windows which means that many - if not most - of it applications will be running over the Internet. What's more, people's data will be stored "in the cloud," much of it on servers run by Google. So, while Google may help reduce Microsoft's potential as a single point of failure, it increases it own potential. If hackers were successful in launching an attack on Google, that would affect not only people's ability to use Google apps, but the integrity of their data. Although there weren't any reported data breaches, there was a day in May of this year when Google sites were partially inaccessible as a result of a technical glitch. On that day, millions of people were unable to use Google services, including Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Say what you want about Microsoft, but even if the company totally shut down its web operations, its operating system and PC applications would still run." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

it certainly also doesn't prevent the far more common outage of your ISP having a hiccup - LANjackal from IM

"This is, in many respects, just another Linux distribution. And Linux has (speaking charitably) not had the impact on the general-purpose PC market that its supporters once hoped it would. Sure, enthusiasts load Linux onto PCs and it can work quite well, but even at an open-source developer conference you'll often see far more Macs than PCs running Linux. I can't say that I understand why Chrome OS would succeed where Ubuntu has, if not failed, largely played to a niche. It's Google we're talking about here to be sure. To which I say that Google has had plenty of failures: Orkut, Google Video, Knol, and Google Base anyone? Fundamentally, I'm skeptical that anyone is in a position to seriously displace Microsoft and Apple from effective ownership of the general-purpose desktop and notebook space. There's so much ecosystem, most of all software ecosystem, in place that a new entrant would have to offer just overwhelming advantage. Which Linux didn't and doesn't." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Gordon forgot to drink the kool aid! He shows common sense and offers some good analysis,"I see Chrome OS as reflecting a change in the client and the way we access applications. To the degree that Chrome OS further illuminates and, by doing so, accelerates such change it may indeed be important in its own right. However, this is largely a change that's happening with or without Google--and certainly with or without anything Google does with respect to client operating systems." - Shane

"Windows 7 will come out before Google Chrome OS will; if it performs up to users’ expectations, it’ll be harder for Google to push through. By the time Chrome OS supports enough hardware and software to be deemed really usable by a significant portion of users, Microsoft will have a lot of time to fix things." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

too snarky. most people don't use or need Photoshop. - Robert W. Anderson from BuddyFeed

"Every since it launched its two truly dominant products, search and AdSense, Google has dabbled in dozens of other products that have basically gone nowhere. These products share the following characteristics: * They are promising opportunities * They are rolled out in beta to great fanfare * They are praised and celebrated * They are left to rot on the vine while Google's best and brightest rush off to play with the next cool toy * They are forgotten in six months" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Shocked but not disgusted. IMO Wave is a much more revolutionary product, and is closer to release than Chrome OS. I'd expect ppl to be more excited about the former, but do as you wish :) - LANjackal from IM

"The second clue Scoble provides is that it runs in a browser, Chrome and Firefox specifically, and at least witnessed being demoed in Firefox. Whilst it’s not impossible whatever this is is not a Silverlight application, I’m more inclined to guess it’s an AJAX web application. To play devil’s advocate however, Scoble specifically refers to “part of the Microsoft announcement” runs in a Chrome and Firefox, which could be interpreted one of two ways. Either it is not entirely a web application or that it is not 100% compatible with Chrome and Firefox." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Maybe it's just me, but if someone puts me under embargo, I wouldn't even mention the announcement is coming - Bwana

"Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive. Instead of treading its own path, Google should have sought to leverage the stellar work already carried out by Shuttleworth and his band of merry coders and tied its horse to the Ubuntu cart. If Google truly wants to design a new "windowing system on top of a Linux kernel," there should be nothing to stop the search giant from collaborating openly with the best in the business. I'm sure Linus Torvalds would have something strongly worded to say about Google's plans to "completely redesign" the underlying security architecture of Linux." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Oh, and Chrome, for all its speed and hype, has absolutely slaughtered ... *Drumroll* Opera. As I said, there's a huge difference between technical success and market success. Google is very good at the former, but outside of search and email (Android may be hyped but it's nowhere near widely available nor has the G1/HTC Magic sold as well as the iPhone or RIM devices), the latter has been tough to come by for them - LANjackal from IM

In theory one would hope not, and have to option to install it yourself. - Gible Fog

i thought it didn't have an OS just a browser ? - tony bland

tony, there is always an OS underneath, but from what I have read about both is that they essentially both boot in to "the browser"..... obviously this is all speculation at the moment. - Paul Kinlan

"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve." - Alessandro from Bookmarklet

"Neither Chrome nor Firefox pioneered the art of tabbed browsing, though Firefox made it popular first. Can Google seize upon this feature and make it its own?" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

absolutely loving it. All the lovely transitions! Super-slick! - vijay

"HTML 5 features such as local storage and the video and audio elements are starting to make their way into the new breed of browsers too, though it's still often necessary to install Google Gears to get advanced offline functionality (e.g. most of the Google Apps suite) up and running." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

David: http://lifehacker.com/5308487... - Jérôme Flipo

Highlights in this release: Animated GIFs fixed. Extensions changes, see Dev Channel Visible Changes post to the Chromium-Extensions mailing list. Printing fixes for Windows. Try out the New New Tab Page by using the command line switch --new-new-tab-page. Don't wait for the new new new tab page, get yours today! Linux now supports IME for non-roman script languages. Fixes for... more... - Warren Butler

thanks for the changelog Warren! : ) I was looking for that earlier. - vijay

No probs. I just wish I could post it with better formatting. - Warren Butler from Nambu

!? Sounds like a problem with your firewall, not Fx. What firewall/OS are you using? - LANjackal

Firefox just don't delve deep enough into the system to conflict with any firewall. What problem are you experiencing? - Pandu E Poluan

"There are an immense number of tools that have been created to help web developers. Unfortunately, you might never know this; there’s no central index of these tools. It turns out that keeping up with all the development in this space is really difficult–even for folks like us who have been tracking it every day for years. As we’ve explored different tools we could create here as part of the Developer Tools Lab, we’ve come to the opinion that in addition to creating new tools, one of the best things we could do is help developers understand the broad universe of tools that already exist and expose some of the fantastic and amazing work that’s being done. We’re launching today a first step in this direction: an Open Web Tools Directory." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Mattie! I thought you were going off the grid for some time? - vijay

glad this was useful Franc. : ) - vijay