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Never seen of it, is it something you made?

That's a flattering guess, but it is wrong.

The image looks cropped, but it isn't. I removed the name from the title bar, that's all.

Some hints. It contains components from Gecko and WebKit, maybe others. It has a new JavaScript engine written for the next generation web applications that aren't possible in today's browsers.

It seems very fast but has very few configurable options, that includes what it installs and where. It makes my harddrive work for some reason.

I, of course, don't like it. So far.

[Another hint:] All right, I'll "Google" for it

It's said to "be a salvo against both Microsoft and Apple in the battle for your desktop".
Yet another browser to deal with

By the looks of it..., I stick to Safari.

You win the prize!

It could be good, but I'm immediately put off by things that it don't let me decide much, for example where to put it (everything goes in Application Data). It tried to install its updater to start with Windows which I stopped. I have a program that watch for registry changes, the installer did not ask me about this. Still the browser tries to update itself frequently. I doubt it will be possible to keep several versions. And as said, the HD squeals, god knows why.

Don't like the web page look of it either. There's no status bar, instead a baby blue field pops up with the information that would have gone on the status bar, had there been one. Since I see bad a consistent look is important to me, but I wouldn't have liked this "cute" type of apps otherwise either. I've always thought an interface should be clear and unobtrusive. Don't go for animations, strong chrome colors and wishy-washy icons.

Here it is anyway. They are working on a Mac version.

http://www.google.com/chrome

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I guess using the WebKit rendering engine but with a new JS engine means GC must be regarded as a separate one, right?

You changed your post!

I interpreted it as they have borrowed some bits from gecko and some bits from WebKit.

I got the news of GC through my news reader yesterday.
And today this one:
Jeffrey Zeldman presents: A bug in Google Chrome.


I couldn't agree more. That's why I "love" Safari. From the look of GC you provided, it looks to me like FF and such.

DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome, crashes with all tabs
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1847&tag=nl.e550

Can you call crashing a program DoS?

Yes. It's denying use of the browser to the user, which is a much more limited DoS attack than denying use of the server to all users, but it's still a denial of service.

Gosh. But it must still be because of some action, I mean something outside the program itself?

How did you notice, due to email notification?


Seems its a brand new JS engine: http://code.google.com/apis/v8/intro.html

No. I'm omnipotent and possess powers you can't even dream of.


I've said that already.

Can we stick to the topic, please? Which now is to explain to me exactly what the term DoS applies to.

Wikipedia says a DoS attack "is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users." That seems pretty broad to me.

To me, the key distinction is between attacks that try to get something from you (e.g., passwords, credit card numbers, encryption keys, CPU resources) and attacks that simply try to deny you access to something.

Thanks. I've always though DoS meant taking the whole machine down or cripple a major major function. Guess I should read past the headlines in the security alerts.

I'm going to uninstall Chrome. It's way to obtrusive and bossy. The darn updater keep trying to get out ever so often even if I don't run the browser and stopped the attempt to register it to start with Windows. It runs as a service instead.