Gbrowser?

[Morph]

I found this. .

Well, it's too early to download the Gbrowser. It hasn't been released yet. How do I even know there is a Gbrowser? Let's look at some facts.

First, Google is dominating on the word G. For instance, Gmail.com. It would only make sense that they register gbrowser.com if they are planing to release a browser. gbrowser.com doesn't exist, but it is already registered by Google. This in itself is not proof. I have reserved some names I may never use. The next piece of information is what catches my attention.

Browser logs over the web show a UserAgent for Google in a very small percentage. Not all sites, but mostly tech sites. UserAgents give a unique identifier for each browser and version. Your UserAgent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6, so that's how I know you are using a browser in the family of Firefox. As a webmaster I can log this information to find out what percentage of users have your browser and version, and make appropriate changes to my sites.

Some people are seeing Google in their logs. It says "Google 0.X" listed among the other browsers, not robots, not search queries, but browsers! 0.X is the version number of beta software - software in production. So if you think these logs are mistakes, recognizing the GoogleBot instead, I don't think so. GoogleBot is at least in version 2.1. Still a chance this can be wrong.

 

[Indyan]

Useragents can be faked.I know people saw IEv8.That doesnt proove anything.And even if Gbrowser is released it would have to be something extraordinary and not just modded Firefox or something to make me switch.

 

[navjotjsingh]

It is not that Google cannot make a Browser but it will no. A market already dominated by Firefox and Google already in association with Mozilla Foundation developing products like Toolba and DeskBar, how can it think of its own Browser? But we can never trust Google. Domain Gmail.com was registered in 1995 - 2 years before Google.com was registered and Gmail was launched only in 2004. So we can expect a browser in well 2014!

 

[user-7256]

Google has said they are NOT MAKING A WEB BROWSER.

Post:

http://googleplans.blogspot.com/2005/09/googles-blogsearch-and-no-google.html

 

[spiralfive]

If Google does release a browser (though probably not), it'll most likely be based on a Mozilla browser such as Firefox, since Google supports the Mozilla Foundation.

 

[user-7256]

.... wow .... I NEVER would have guessed that

As I said, they're NOT making a browser.

 

[spiralfive]

You don't know that. Apple said that they weren't going to release a video iPod but lo and behold: 5th gen iPod video. Yahoo! released a version of IE a few years ago with a Y! in place of the Microsoft logo, and the toolbar (that's about it). That's why I said it'd probably be Firefox. That, and nobody likes IE anymore.

 

[user-7256]

Google develops web-based applications, with only a couple exceptions (Google Desktop and gTalk are the only two really - they bought out others) ... seriously though: All they have to do is make a web browser bootable and there you have it - a web based operating system.

 

[spiralfive]

I think they should make an OS to compete directly with Microsoft. I wonder if they could out-do Apple?

An online OS would be cool....but what would be the point? It'd just add more loading time. It would be cool to have a sorta bootable Google-Network type OS. (Ex: Google Talk, Gmail, Google Earth, Google Search, Etc. All at your fingertips). Perhaps a Google Internet Appliance?

 

[user-7256]

Judging by what Google's built in the past, they'd download the essentials at startup (so yeah, a startup loading time of maybe 2 minutes with broadband, 5 with dial up) and then it would run off of Javascript or something after that... built in protocols.

 

[commes]

i wouldnt be surprised if google did come out with something like that that compuXP said, as there coming out with everything else, like something like ebay and they have googletalk and are coming out with something similar to paypal, so why wouldnt they do something that no one has ever done before?

 

[navjotjsingh]

But there is no use to release a new browser. Market is already flooded with so many browsers with Flock just released. Google would never think about it unless it has some extraordinary features.

 

[yoink78]

I honestly believe that google WILL make a browser, but not relatively soon. I think when it does, it will be very popular, because pretty much anything made by google seems to become popular. I don't think they will release one for a very long time, because they probably want to do it right, and develop a lot of features that don't exist in web browsers.

 

[italks]

i heard somewhere on some forums by someone that he is using gbrowser beta although i dont believe him.Does anyone has beta news for gbrowser.

 

[yoink78]

i heard somewhere on some forums by someone that he is using gbrowser beta although i dont believe him.Does anyone has beta news for gbrowser.

There is no public evidence of any development of a google internet browser so far. He may be using gbrowser beta, gbrowser 1.5 beta 22 which is an image organizer for mac. http://homepage.mac.com/schwarz/gbrowser.html One of the reasons that I know that this "gbrowser" rumor is bogus is because there already is a copyrighted program called gbrowser.

 

[Morph]

Well thats that flawed isnt it!
Lol

 

[italks]

There is no public evidence of any development of a google internet browser so far. He may be using gbrowser beta, gbrowser 1.5 beta 22 which is an image organizer for mac. http://homepage.mac.com/schwarz/gbrowser.html One of the reasons that I know that this "gbrowser" rumor is bogus is because there already is a copyrighted program called gbrowser.

well i think you may be right.

 

[HFear]

If Google does release a browser (though probably not), it'll most likely be based on a Mozilla browser such as Firefox, since Google supports the Mozilla Foundation.

.... wow .... I NEVER would have guessed that

As I said, they're NOT making a browser.

Me neither! Thanks for that piece of information spiralfive.

 

[NuPagady]

Google loves firefox, they don't need anything else at the moment:]

 

[GHOwner]

Well, Google said they arent working on a browser, but that doesnt mean they wont make one later on ... who knows. However, I see all browsers other than IE have too many good things already. However, seeing how they used their toolbars for browsers, thye might have unique things if they ever put a browser together.