Chrome To Go Out OF Beta?

By David Fierce
16:18, December 11th 2008
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Chrome To Go Out OF Beta?

In an interview with Michael Arrington at the Le Web Conference in Paris, Google vice president Marissa Mayer announced that the company is ready to launch a full release of Google Chrome. Google’s decision is pretty surprising, considering the company’s tradition to hardly remove that “Beta” label from its products’ names.

Rumors say that Google Chrome 1.0 will have Google Toolbar and Google Apps built-in. Yet, Google may announce specific information about the release on Thursday, at Add-on-Con, which is a conference about browser extensions. Nick Baum, product manager on Google Chrome will speak at the conference about the future of Web browsers. Representatives of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox will have speeches, too.

The Mountain View company has some reasons to release the Chrome browser as a full release. First of all, a full Chrome release permits computer manufacturers to bundle the browser to their PCs, a thing which will increase its market share among the big players – i.e. Internet Explorer and Firefox. At the moment, Google Chrome has a shy 1%, far away from the 20% Firefox has, or the 69% of the mother of all browsers – Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome has continuously been updated since its initial release in September 2008. However, there are still issues that Chrome’s users have to cope with. Among the most important of the browser’s flaws is the inability to access Windows’ Hotmail without entering a command line. Also, it is somehow surprising that even the company’s own Google Zeitgeist 2008 Website isn’t properly displayed in Google Chrome.

In the near future, it is expected that Google will release Linux and Mac version of Google Chrome, although the company didn’t officially announce this at the moment.



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