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Raw Bytes Computer News KPBX FM 91.1 Radio National Public Radio Network Frank Delaney Producer Broadcast on Wednesday Morning 7:35 AM During Morning Edition Support Public Radio ! The Theater Of the Mind |
In computer news this week 09/03/2008 Chrome wheels used to be cool on
cars when I was in high school back in the 60’s, but now Google’s
trying to be cool with a chrome browser ... Google
announced over the weekend that they’ll be releasing their browser on
Tuesday. It’s now well into Tuesday; Google still hasn’t made
their new browser available for downloading, and the whole world is watching
and waiting. If you
recall a few months ago I did a show on a new search engine that had been
created by ex-google employees – which fell flat on it’s
face in its product introduction. This was the Cuil browser – spelled
c-u-i-l but pronounced cool – and
so far there’s nothing at all cool about it. One point I mercifully
left out of my show on it was that if you typed the word cuil into the cuil
search engine – no reference to their browser came up, just Irish
website related to the word which means knowledge. They’ve since managed
to put themselves in their own search results now. I think
Google is trying to make sure all systems are go before they release Chrome,
because as us old hotrod fans know – one little speck of mud on a
chrome wheel can ruin the show – and industry pundits are already
saying this will be just another over-hyped google product that goes nowhere.
I’ve
been talking about browsers for several years on Raw Bytes, and in recent
years I’ve been using and recommending the Firefox browser, which has
gained about a 35% market share since its introduction, and which I feel is a
better and safer browser than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. And other
browsers – namely Safari and Opera have a small share of the browser
marketplace also. The Firefox browser even has a search engine window
built right into it – Google. But today
Google has introduced its own web browser they’ve named Chrome, which is
going to put a strain on the Google-Firefox relationship. As part
of its product introduction, google has come up with what they call their
“Comic
Book”
- an online illustrated multi-page comic book explaining the
history of browsers, the problems with browsers, and how the Google Chrome
browser is going to be the best thing since sliced bread. Except I
never laughed while reading this comic book, and by about the 15th
page – not even halfway through it – after a constant barrage of
terms like java script execution, api’s that are asynchronous, process
isolation, virtual machine execution, dynamic code generation, and automatic
memory management, my eyes were as crossed as anyone else’s and I swore
off ever trying to read another computer geek comic book again. 2.40 At almost
noon on Tuesday I’m able to download chrome – it installs in
minutes and takes your existing bookmarks etc out of whichever browser
you’ve been using, and it come sup in a tutorial mode linking to
Youtube videos, but ......... ooops ! I get an error message that this 1st training
video is no longer available, and the 2nd one, and the 3rd
one, so I’ll let you know what I think of it next week.
I guess
you couldn’t call this a “polished chrome” beginning ... |
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