Hacker News Reader

Comment by mamama | Hacker News Reader

True. And fairly polished, too.

I listened to part of the shareholder thing. I think they said it's been in development for 2 years. That's a long time to stay in stealth mode...

And pretty amazing they didn't have a leak!

Are you sure they didn't? How many Google browser stories have you seen in the past 2 years, and dismissed out of hand?

Did you ever see a leaked screenshot, memo or email? Everything else is just rumor or speculation.

The splash the pond strategy.

Extremely polished.

My only complaint so far is that I miss the bar at the bottom of the browser that typically displays the active link and download status. I find the little pop-up distracting.

If this survives the day without a stability issue it becomes my primary browser.

Looks like they made some minor adjustments for keyboard-only types: instead of a dotted gray box, they highlight whatever item you've tabbed to with a more visible yellow box.

And text boxes are expandable! (Or is this a News.YC feature I missed?)

Edit: Last paragraph wrong on both counts; see response.

Those are features of Webkit, the core browser technology that Chrome and Safari are built on.

Several things about the tab interface bother me: - Double clicking on the tab bar to open a new tab just resizes the window because it's actually the title bar - There is no window menu icon in the top left, so double clicking there doesn't close the browser - Closing all tabs closes the application

It's certainly fast, though, and probably will supplant FireFox as my gmail browser. The tab switching animation is slick too. Definitely looking forward to how this develops. Seems more like a web application browser and less like a web page browser, which is obviously something Google needs to seriously attack Microsoft's desktop monopolies.

Very. I'm very impressed with this so far.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com