September 30, 2008
· Filed under Mozilla · Tagged Chrome, Firefox, Minefield, Mozilla
Now, I’m not exactly sure where I found this to be honest, but I recently downloaded Mozilla’s project called Minefield. As you can guess, it is Mozilla’s answer to Google Chrome (well, sorta).
Minefield: More than just a cool logo
Though in a very preliminary stage, the Alpha build, its built with the quickest javascript that Chrome is built upon. I’m testing it right now for OS X, and it has only crashed once. I haven’t tested it thoroughly, but I’m excited to try some benchmarking tests (against Firefox 3.1 and Google Chrome) and see what happens. The interface looks identical to Firefox 3, minus a lot of add-ons, which is understandable, they are not written in JavaScript, but rather written in XUL, what the Mozilla engine is based upon. Anyway, you can download it here and pick which build you want, they have nightly builds for Linux, OS X and Windows I believe, so pick which one applies.
September 29, 2008
· Filed under Google, Linux, Programming · Tagged Chrome, Firefox, Linux, Wine
Now, before the title gets you all excited about the release of Chrome for the Linux platform (which hopefully comes soon); this is more or less a CrossOver application with the intermediary being Wine. Although a Linux version is in the works, it is far from being ready to be tested. I suppose it goes without saying that this isn’t very stable and is prone to error, I myself have not tried this as of yet. You can find out the steps of doing this here. Like I said, I have yet to try this, but LinuxHaxors provided a nice screenshot of it that you see below. Can’t wait till Chrome comes out for OS X, but I would hate to part with FireFox!
Chrome running on Linux via Wine
September 2, 2008
· Filed under Apple, Google, Linux, Microsoft · Tagged Android, Chrome, Google, Web Browser
Google Chrome screenshot...looks like its on Linux?
Though I do not have it for Windows yet (haven’t booted up Vista-Boot-Camp yet), I am extremely excited to see how Google’s new web browser, known as Chrome will work out. Apparently, Google says they made a mistake by releasing it early, via emails. Chrome Beta has been released today in over 100 countries for Windows and a version for Mac and Linux is coming along, but not yet ready to be released. They have (sort of) an official site for Chrome, which includes the download for Windows here. I’m very excited to try this new browser out, and according to some individuals on Digg, it uses less MB than Firefox, IE7/8 and Safari! Not sure, I’ll have to test it out myself, but my guess it that it is for the upcoming Android platform. More on this later as well as the Apple event September 9th, 2008!
