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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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