The Google Chrome - browser with gears

I have this unfulfilled desire, a desire most of the Technology Labors aspire to achieve, and yours only is not an exception. And this desire increased by leaps and bounds when I read Comics adaptation of Google Chrome - The Web Browser with gears, an epitome of how and on what they work on! And their official blog confirms it!
A common product, if you look at it first, but as I went through it, it unveiled a lot of promises(and I'm sure Google keeps it!).
I think I'm dragging this thing too much so let's break the ice, I'm talking about Chrome - the Google browser with gears!
Tabs have revolutionized and eased the way browser's UI is presented. And Chrome will revolutionize the way tabs will work.
With product as such, Google marks yet another presence in the Internet(as if they din't do anything till now! *poor me*). And the reason they have mentioned to make it open-source, competition, is what left me flabbergasted. Kudos to Google for bringing up the Chrome into the scene in an open-sourced version. May god bless IE. :)
And the best thing is, it's getting released today!

Were you involved?

A follow-up for my previous mail. Finally I laid my hands on ff3(for those morons who have no idea what ff3 is, it's firefox 3)!
A mail was waiting for me when I opened my gmail. I clicked on it, and it took me to this page
So I have the new improved version of my favorite browser! with few add-ons. There's really a dearth of add-ons for ff3, but looking at Mozilla's initiative, it wont take long when you'll be using unplug with ff3.
I left you all wanting with the last post, regarding the positives ff3 has brought.
Click here for the complete list.
Finally, the link to download it : Firefox 3
Till then, ciao!

Firefox3, set for a world record

Yes, it is true. Much awaited Firefox 3, the savior of those, haunted by Internet Explorer, is releasing tomorrow!
I had downloaded the beta, rc3 version from their ftp site, but had to downgrade soon as it didn't have the compatible add-ons. And while trying to hack the browser configs to disable compatibility check, I screwed it up bigtime. My browser wouldn't start, and kept on saying, Firefox crashed!
So only respite was to downgrade it to 2.0. And that's what I did.
Few +ves for firefox 3

• less resource hungry, compared to ff2,


• smooth scrolling of the tabs really fascinated me,


• address bar information, ie, when you type a site address, it not only gives you the site-addresses you have visited previously, but also the details about the site(by details I meant, the site title and sub-title). It also does the pattern matching while you are typing. Pattern matching is done with site address and title, unlike ff2 or any other browser, where you only have address address completion/prediction,


• And the information on favicon. Once you click on favicon, a window pops up which give you the brief info about the page, how the data transmission is taking place(encrypted or not), etc.

In short, a browser to own.
Negatives:

• Very less number of compatible add-ons. I hope the developers across the world will come up with the ff3 compatible add-ons soon.

And ff management have come up with a unique idea, to set a Guinness World Record of a top downloaded software. As I found out through the articles, no such record exists till now, so they'll surely achieve this wonderful feat. And here's their page where you can subscribe, so that they can send you a mail, when ff3 becomes available for download!

So please visit DOWNLOAD DAY 2008 and subscribe yourself and help them achieve their record.