Thanks for all Your Help
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Today we announced that with Google Chrome's fifteenth release, we are taking off the "beta" label. We set goals around improving the stability and performance of the browser, and many of you have helped us meet these goals. We are grateful to the many people around the world who have contributed patches to Chromium (we had our first come from Korea after only five hours), the dedicated volunteers who have filed and triaged bugs in our issue tracker, the loyal users who braved the sometimes rocky dev channel releases, and everyone who took the simple step of opting-in to sending usage statistics and crash reports.
Google Chrome wouldn't be where it is today without your help. Of course, there's still a ton more to do, so keep the feedback, patches, bug reports, and moral support coming!
36 comments:
Al said...
We're still waiting for the promised OS X and Linux versions. Why no word on that?
December 11, 2008 10:53 AM
Ryan Snook said...
Cripes
December 11, 2008 11:30 AM
Aleks Ritov said...
+1
i wanna Linux version very much!
December 11, 2008 11:42 AM
Sheldon said...
Your welcome chromium.
December 11, 2008 11:50 AM
Brandon P said...
What nightly version of webkit is the current release of Chrome based on?
December 11, 2008 12:33 PM
vink said...
@Al: There are build instructions for the mac at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/MacBuildInstructions, and you'll also find a link to pre-build binaries of the current Mac version.
December 11, 2008 1:32 PM
Novettam said...
I think i am going to raise a ticket asking for the beta label to be put back.
:P
December 11, 2008 2:11 PM
Digitalxero said...
I agree that Chrom is not as polished as Safari or FF, but as a 1.0 release that has forced auto updates I dont see an issue with removing the Beta tag.
It has the features required for the average user, is stable, and faster then IE. What taking the Beta tag off does is allow Google to start pushing it to OEM's to get installed as the default browser thus increasing it's market share.
Is it the best browser around for the Tech crowd? No it is missing far too many feature for that, but Google pushing for mass market adoption at this point makes sense
December 11, 2008 2:36 PM
MarkR said...
There is a strange problem with Google Chrome (1.0.154.36) as well as some previous releases, performing over 50 times slower with a specific simple Google Docs spreadsheet than the IE7 that's part of Windows XP SP3.
It does not appear to be caused by any plugins or other crud, as this is still a relatively fresh XP install, with firewall turned on, antivirus, and a router with a hardware firewall enabled. System tray is minimal, and I am a software developer that pays attention to my computer system.
December 11, 2008 3:22 PM
HiFi said...
As glad as I am to see the Beta tag come off Chrome, when is the same tag coming off other Google Products? Especially GMail, since that must be way past Beta by now.
And I'm really wanting the Mac version. Chrome is my favourite browser on Windows (outstripping Firefox and Safari by miles, and IE by light years), but I really want the Mac experience. Hurry up, guys!!!
December 11, 2008 3:52 PM
Fabrizio - ikol22 said...
Unfortunately no words about bookmarks set online by Google Toolbar. Without it lot of people cannot use Chrome
December 11, 2008 4:20 PM
Michel En La Red said...
Es verdaderamente excelente,felicitaciones
December 11, 2008 4:43 PM
tsung said...
谢谢谢谢..
December 11, 2008 6:22 PM
Brad the Dad said...
add-ons and I'm in
December 11, 2008 9:16 PM
Micky said...
Thank you! Chrome is my favourite browser.
December 11, 2008 9:32 PM
Richard Heyes said...
:-0 Whoever heard of a jump from a 0.4 to a 1.0 release? Can't say that I'm disappointed though - any move that helps reduce the market share held by MSIE, or more likely, helps encourage its' developers to hurry up and support canvas, is a good thing.
--
Richard Heyes
HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari:
http://www.rgraph.org (Updated December 5th)
December 12, 2008 2:47 AM
Tellie said...
Can't resist to post this.
So I upgraded to 1.* and went on to my iGoogle page and received this error from Gtalk:
"We currently don't support chat in this browser. Coming soon, stay tuned!"
Has Google become too big to talk together with other departments? :P
December 12, 2008 5:00 AM
Jeff said...
Please tell me at some point I'll be able to specify URLs for which I want to allow pop-ups!
December 12, 2008 8:26 AM
jay said...
Congrats on getting out of Beta so quickly. I cannot switch until I have live access to my Google bookmarks in the toolbar. I work on 4 different computers and I could not live without my google bookmarks. Not sure why this was not addressed. A static import (which I learned how to do) is not a substitute for me. Please fix this and I will convert, as I have with so many other Google aps.
December 12, 2008 9:02 AM
Fabrizio - ikol22 said...
Repeating what Jay (and me) said above, I will add that this link:
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta
doesn't work at all. I'm afraid that your Gov. wouldn't be happy if they knew it
December 12, 2008 3:07 PM
Darin Fisher (Google) said...
@Fabrizio: That bug has been fixed on tip-of-tree. (It works with the new HTTP stack.)
December 12, 2008 3:59 PM
liberalsrcrap said...
Two comments. First, Chrome is great! Much, much faster than Firefox or MS IE. Two, can you put the "home" button in there somewhere? Really miss being able to hit home.
December 13, 2008 4:30 AM
Aniket Aryamane said...
Waiting for the UBUNTU version of Google Chrome....
December 13, 2008 5:56 AM
Aniket Aryamane said...
When will the plugin support be bundled with Google Chrome?
December 13, 2008 5:59 AM
Aniket Aryamane said...
Why does Google Chrome install itself in "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application" Folder? This is so irritating. If I change the user, I need to re-install OR re-configure the Chrome .EXE path. It would be great if you could install Chrome in C:\Program Files.
Any particular reason for choosing the user documents folder?
December 13, 2008 6:08 AM
Richard Heyes said...
> Two, can you put the "home" button in there somewhere
You can enable it via options. Spanner > Options > First tab > Show home button on toolbar.
December 13, 2008 7:00 AM
Steve Waterhouse said...
Autofill PLEASE!!!!!
December 14, 2008 1:36 PM
barreluv said...
Is there anywhere that I can read up-to-date news on how the Linux port is coming along?
December 15, 2008 5:07 AM
Animal said...
Great job. It's become my browser of choice for demonstrating the new very rich interfaces available using tools such as ExtJs.
But the debugging still leaves a lot to be desired. We're back to the 80s and typing commands to set breaks, step through code and examine stuff. When is debugging going to be up to Firebug's standard?
December 17, 2008 5:04 AM
Haga said...
Então... não consegui achar lugar melhor pra mandar isto, mas omeu google chrome 1.0.154.36 esta recarregando a pagina se ficar por muito tempo parada na tela, porque acontece isso? vocês conhecem este erro? meu email: haga1985@gmail.com
December 19, 2008 4:19 AM
Missus Purnsey said...
Any word on the OSX Google Chrome? Some of us are very excited waiting for it!
I installed Chrome on my two other PC (yes, I'm bi-system) and it was as fast as a greased leopard in a buffet. Well done:) Now waiting for OSX!!
December 19, 2008 11:40 AM
thierry said...
Hi
I've been testing out Google Chrome: Its efficient , fast and innovative.Currently it is the best platform to take the web to the next level...
If a developer or group of developers can find a way to integrate or link the Opencl ( http://www.khronos.org/opencl/ ) with Google Chrome so that interactive 3d envirenments can be easily built into the web and the increasing avaialability of processors can be leveraged it would be wonderful.
Thanks
December 29, 2008 3:17 AM
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January 19, 2009 2:38 AM
peorge said...
i get an error 5 when i try to install crpme. i also can not see the picture on the main page, it says i need a plugin but does not say what plugin that is. i think this should still be beta or for expert use only.
January 19, 2009 5:16 AM
PRAR said...
Perdón... pero si estamos hablando de OPEN SOURCE... por que no estamos hablando de Linux y sus Distros???
Esta claro que esta herramienta de GOOGLE, pretende solo generar soporte a WINDOWS, Por lo que no es una herramienta LIBRE.
NO SE DEJEN ENGAÑAR, aca seguimos soportando a windows y sus fallas, sus virus y sus pesadillas, aca no hay libertad, aca solo se creo algo BONITO para algo que por detras es tan fragil e inseguro.
Cuando se desarrolle esta aplicacion para LINUX, sera lo suficientemente independiente, como para saber de que se trata de algo nuevo...
No se dislumbren con espejitos de colores... es olo arena y plastico. aca no hay diamantes.-
March 19, 2009 8:29 PM
PRAR said...
Sorry ... but if we are talking about ... The Open Source that we're not talking about Linux and its Distros?
It is clear that this tool GOOGLE, aims only to generate support for Windows, so it is not a free tool.
Do not be fooled, here we continue to suffer its failings and windows, their nightmares and their viruses, there is no freedom here, here is just something nice to think something behind that is so fragile and insecure.
When this application was developed for LINUX, will be independent enough, to know that this is something new ...
(google page traducer) sorry
March 19, 2009 8:34 PM
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