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- BrendanSheehan, on 11/30/2008, -5/+142Please, try harder with the icon.
- CaptShmo, on 12/01/2008, -2/+63yeah, it looks like a snake's eye had a baby with a garbage disposal :(
- daveisfera, on 11/30/2008, -6/+41Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't imagine this having any real shot at competing with Chrome in the long run. Google just has too many resources and too much interest in making sure that Chrome is a success (or at least in bringing about a revolution in the browser) to not blow something like this out of the water.
- Sonizel, on 12/01/2008, -2/+33reminds me of goatse
- dbxz, on 12/01/2008, -2/+32why do we need another browser? Every time a new browser comes out a web developer somewhere jumps off a bridge.
- justincash, on 12/01/2008, -1/+30You know what's interesting about this browser? It reminds me ALOT of Sunrise... the Japanese Webkit-based browser for Mac. Sunrise is bare bones and has search built into the address bar too. And funny, it even has a knock off icon, that looks a lot of Sunrise's icon. I smell something fishy. :I
If you're curious: http://www.sunrisebrowser.com/en/ - dtpollitt, on 12/01/2008, -1/+27actually the guy just changed the icon. my brother does some photography and his image was used in one of the early releases, but apparently he changed it to some new rubbish that is now the snake-eye-in-a-garbage-disposal-smashed-against-the-wall-mixed-with-a-goatse-sphincter-in-vonneguts-drawing-of-captshmo. heres the original pic:
http://dpollitt.smugmug.com/gallery/1829386_dPJxX# ...
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpollitt/2292497213/
or the actual image used:
http://dpollitt.net/?p=175
digg me down for plugging my brother, but ***** it, his picture is way better than this new *****. - deadapostle, on 12/01/2008, -1/+25Thank God! With only Firefox, Safari, Opera, Camino, iCab, Flock, Omniweb, Shiira, and Seamonkey, it's good to finally have an alternative browser for the mac.
- UrSerbianBuddy, on 12/01/2008, -7/+31To be honest, as great as Chrome might be, us Mac users should have just stopped hoping and realized that we don't need Chrome to have a good browser.
- solarisom, on 12/01/2008, -1/+19Kinds looks like someone smashed the Safari icon against a wall several times.
- paulius, on 12/01/2008, -2/+19I don't think that Stainless' goal is to compete with Chrome and Chromium in the long run. It's just something to help us, Mac users, cope with the fact that Google's doesn't have their browser available for our platform.
I'm using Stainless right now and it is, in my opinion, a tremendous improvement over just using Safari. As nice as Safari is, it has some ridiculous performance problems if a certain page's javascript goes beserk.
When Google releases Chrome for Mac, it will definately be my main browser. That being said, I'm also presuming that some of the core code is shared so that the Mac version will be as stable as the Windows version upon release. - Emachine, on 12/01/2008, -1/+16Stainless is a good name for a porn browser.
- GramarNazi, on 12/01/2008, -1/+16I like where it's heading, but without a form of Adblock, I will always stick with the other options.
- whitesaint, on 12/01/2008, -0/+13Chrome, Safari, and Firefox generally render a webpage the same way. When making web pages, I think you should generally design it for Safari or Firefox, then fix the bugs that pop up in IE. The main compatibility issue most people have is dealing with IE IMHO.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+12Cool. Keep up us all posted, will ya?
- benologist, on 12/01/2008, -2/+13Google's not trying to bring about a revolution with browsers, they're trying to make sure that Adobe and Microsoft can't take the internet *out* of browsers by getting and maintaining enough market share to ensure anyone who wants to use platforms they can't penetrate - AIR, Silverlight, whatever comes next - is forced to continue offering a browser-based alternative.
The only thing close to revolutionary about Chrome is it emphasised how ridiculously slow IE and Firefox were becoming in ways that really matter, everyone's been far too focused on the fractions of a second speed differences between rendering engines. - thedragon4453, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10You know the internet has scarred you when most circular things look like goatse.
- tmyprod, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10Looks like one of Vonnegut's more infamous drawings.
- steinjake, on 12/01/2008, -1/+10i think it's a sphincter
- pezholio, on 12/01/2008, -2/+11"Every time a new browser comes out a web developer somewhere jumps off a bridge." Doesn't matter with Chrome. It uses the same rendering engine as Safari, so it's not an issue...
- biblicabeebli, on 12/01/2008, -1/+9HAHA! YES!
Totally stalled my system when opening 66 tabs (my daily webcomics and craigslist searches dragged over from Safari) BUT IT DID NOT CRASH!
Also, the download of Stainless is 426k, I approve. - Spuy767, on 12/01/2008, -1/+9Yeah, now all it needs is a pair of hands pulling the icon open.
- whitesaint, on 11/30/2008, -7/+15Very nice application. For those of us that can't wait for Chrome, this is our answer!
- MtheoryX, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8We do have WebKit nightlies...with the SquirrelFish JS interpreter to boot.
Try it for yourself...it's fast, very fast. - Skidmark66, on 12/01/2008, -2/+9another browser ?
***** off . . - PabloMac, on 12/01/2008, -2/+8Buried for getting it backward. This article has nothing to do with Mac or Windows "keeping up" with each other. It's about great new browser available on Windows before the Mac version. The Mac version is on the way, and 99% of Mac users can get by until that happens.
Move along, nothing to see here. - crammaz, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5Wow, I just downloaded sunrise
It is a 1.1mb file and is so fast its not funny! I think I will keep using it for a while before I make any firm moves but I think Sunrise may become my new browser of choice, seriously... try it, it is that fast :) - Hardcase, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5I keep asking myself that every time it crashes on my iPhone. "What happened to Safari THIS time?"
- quomen, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5Nice image, but tell your brother that he needs to clean his sensor :P
However, I don't like the icon.. There are way too many elements in it. Lines, color gradation, pipe details. It's both too harsh and too soft to use as an icon. - Appleologist, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6It's gone. Apple will announce that it will scrap Safari for Stainless in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
- ORBAT, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5In other news, Apple is scrapping the xnu kernel and adopting Windows Vista as the core of its OS.
- Myrth, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5"Generally the same way" is not generally good enough.
I know for a fact that different browsers with the same render engine display pages differently and have different quirks.
Safari on different OS render differently.
Safari and Chrome render differently.
Firefox on different OS and between 2.x and 3.x render differently.
I'm not event talking about K-Meleon/Epiphany that use Gecko and still render differently.
So yeah, you need to test every major browser if you want to have render consistancy BETTER than whatever is "generally" out there. - zakatov, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4No, OSX has spellcheck systemwide. Flamebait fail.
- KibblesnBitts, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5426k worth of memory for stainless
over 45 MB for firefox
I like it - dukeeeey, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5everyone let's mindlessly worship the new browser !
- BrendanJB, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4they actually called it Stainless?
...wow - pezholio, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Chrome is exciting, but I switched back to Firefox after the novelty wore off. Architecturally it's great, but it's just too bare bones for my tastes. I think for the casual user it's great, but I much prefer my Firefox with all its lovely plugins. Plus, there's no Adblock with Chrome.
- HigherLogic, on 12/01/2008, -7/+11That's true, Opera _is_ available for Mac users ;)
- DMCer, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4The sphincter of Optimus Prime.
- InorganicMatter, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Because, you know, 45MB of memory is SO much, especially when I just popped 8GB in this server under my desk for $100...
- Galaxylander, on 12/01/2008, -2/+6It even has a nicer icon. :)
- radar00064, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3dug for anything with legend of zelda
- Rupan, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4Im sorry but Chrome sucks. Besides the Multi Threading, its rubbish. The future of web browsers was plugins back in 2000 and Firefox has delivered on that. I will wait for Firefox 4.0 which will hopefully have an updated Gecko layout engine that does Mutli Threading.
- RobotBuddha, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4It's way too late in the night to go into detail on why you're wrong about the "basically just safari" comment. Just read their site, the notes for the mac port of chrome, and you might get an idea of the differences between chrome and safari.
- andrespereyda, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3i already signed up for their free updates too!
- andrespereyda, on 12/01/2008, -2/+5ya, what? it looks more like a cartoon version of Gary Colman from a distance of 12 light years.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -3/+6It, just like chrome, are basically just safari. its all webkit and the javascript engines are all really fast now so.....
i just dont get mac users wanting chrome. we already have safari, webkit and 6 or7 other webkit based browsers. - pOwErBoOkEr, on 12/01/2008, -4/+7Reported as Inaccurate for the clickbait headline.
- Seidoger, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Unrelated, but with all the Web 2.0 trends of incorporating all the domain name in the web site name (such as del.icio.us) I took the habit of reading them this way, and this web site's name sounds wrong.
- quomen, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3I see the eye of a velociraptor.
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