Posts Tagged ‘Chrome’

Google Chrome for Mac in Beta

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Google have launched the Google Chrome web browser for Mac.

Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team:

73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
29 developer builds
1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests
8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed
4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten

Sounds like not very many soft drinks or mini-wheats (whatever they are?)

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Google’s Chrome on new Sony Vaio Laptops

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Google have done a deal with Sony to put it’s year old browser Chrome onto new Sony computers. Chrome currently has around 3 percent of the browser market and is looking to follow the trend of Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox by getting manufacturers to pre-install the browser on new machines. The assumption being that people do not switch from what comes with the PC.

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Google’s Chrome OS as rival to Windows

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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Google’s Chrome internet browser that was launched last year is being turned into an operating system for laptop and desktop PCs. The move coincides with Gmail and Google Docs coming out of perpetual Beta.

A Chrome OS would remove the requirement for any Microsoft products in the stack with OS, browser and web applications all being provided by Google.

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