Google GBrowser

[Trekkie101 0]

Google are doing quite well, id love to see some gbrowser screenshots and they probably will make a messenger that will kick the others asses, google have started doing what evryone else does and yet still do it better plus the gmail interface is great if you need quick access without long loading times unlike the msn dating ads,

[TheNateGBent 0]

Firefox fineally has some competition

[Captain Jerry 0]

Sorry guys, I just saw this on CNN.com

Google has no plan for its own browser

Wednesday, May 31, 2006; Posted: 4:34 p.m. EDT (20:34 GMT)
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Google Inc. has no plans to build its own Web browser software to compete with rival Microsoft Corp., Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.

During a conference call with Wall Street analysts, Schmidt dismissed speculation that the company aimed to tie together its Web search and other services to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the world's dominant Web browser.

"It looks like people have some good browser choices already," Schmidt said. "We would not build a browser for the fun of building a browser," he added.

Google encourages its customers to use a variety of alternatives to Internet Explorer, particularly the open-source Firefox browser.

It also has partnerships to encourage the use of the Safari browser among Apple Computer Inc. customers, Norway's Opera Software ASA, which makes browsers for computers and phones, among several other browser alternatives, he said.

However, Schmidt left the door open to developing a browser if it saw some clear utility to users that was not otherwise being met in the market. "We would only do something ... if we thought there was a real end-user benefit," he said.

The Google executive has consistently downplayed questions about its ambitions to develop its own browser software by saying that the underlying assumption is that Google is taking up the battle that Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications Corp. lost to Microsoft during the 1990s.

Schmidt argues that the landscape of the computer industry has been changed by the dynamics of Web search advertising and the decade-old "battle for the desktop" waged by Microsoft and its competitors is quickly becoming less relevant.

Edited June 4, 2006 by miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG (see edit history)

[BitShift 0]

There is already a GBrowser.

Another company owns it, its some kind of mac software I think.

The Real GBrowser - Info Page


I read an article released by Google saying they have no current plans to design a web browser. I'll post a link to it if I can find it again.


Sorry for the bad news but I felt I should squash the rumor before too many people read this topic.

[t4tav 0]

It would be good for google to make a browser nad become a household name , but I think they would be going for too much

[Elzear 0]

I think it would be interesting to try for a day or two see how it works thats about it.

[austiniskoge 0]

Yeah, sure it's a cool idea.But keep in mind the harmless "Google Toolbar" you have on your current browser will be like 400 pixels high...Haha.I'm sure whatever those Google people can come up with is good enough for everyone.

[swizzeron 0]

Almost no browser supports the W3C standards completely and upto my information almost no browser software has ever completed the Acid2 test successfully, IE being the worst

[tuanbi 0]

It's from google so you know it has to be good. As long as it has a popup blocker and no spyware/adware its fine by me.