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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8" /> <title>Google Chrome Screenshots</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/default.css?v1_01" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css?v1_01" type="text/css" media="print" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Google Blogoscoped Feed" href="/rss.xml" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="/lib/dynamic.js?v1_002"></script> </head><body id="blog"><div id="all"><h1><a href="/"><img src="/files/logo-80-percent.png" alt="Google Blogoscoped" /></a></h1><div class="blogContent"><h2>Tuesday, September 2, 2008</h2><h3>Google Chrome Screenshots</h3><p>Google announced their browser <a href="/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html">Google Chrome</a> to be available on Tuesday, but their download page and tour was already partly available at <span style="font-size: 90%">gears.google.com/chrome/</span> just now, as Uval in the forum noticed. While the download itself didn’t work when I tried, I was able to extract some screenshots, from the frontpage but also the YouTube videos. And while the product tour videos themselves seemed to require a special group membership at YouTube, the video still previews are public and you can paste the video identifier into <a href="http://img.youtube.com/vi/o0TZGkMjFBw/0.jpg">a URL like this one</a> to see more high quality stills.</p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-logo.jpg" alt="" style="border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>The service’s logo.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screenshot.jpg" alt="" style="border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>Screenshots of Google Chrome from the service’s frontpage.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/1.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>The auto-completion of the so-called “omnibox” address bar.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/2.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>The homepage showing 9 thumbnailed pages to access, along with more pointers in the side-bar, to appear “[e]very time you open a new tab”, as Google says.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/calendar.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>This screenshot shows Google Calendar and a dialog reading “Create shortcuts in the following locations”, listing Desktop, Start Menu and Quick Launch Bar.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/tabs.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>Zooming in on the browser tabs.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/5.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>The Google Chrome task manager, e.g. to monitor if certain sites cause memory problems.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/6.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>A screen showing the “Google incognito” mode for allegedly more private browsing.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/7.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>Another auto-completion example.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/8.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>A star near the address input bar lets you bookmark a page, apparently.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/9.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>A look into the settings menu.</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px"><img src="/files/google-chrome-screens/10.jpg" alt="" style="width: 500px; border: 1px solid #888" /><br /> <em>Google in their tour says with Chrome “you see your download’s status at the bottom of your current window.”</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 40px">On a related note, I asked Scott McCloud – creator of the <a href="/google-chrome/">comic book</a> introducing Google Chrome – some questions. Scott now put up a <a href="http://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/">mini-FAQ</a> on his site. He says he’d been working on the comic off and on “from March through August.” On the question of who came up with the visualizations, he says there was some “rough whiteboard sketching during the interviews” but that most were his though. Asked about how many of these comics were printed, Scott says it was just a limited run, and that he didn’t sign any yet. He adds this project was “a big challenge” considering he had “never done such a thing before.”</p> <p class="via">[Images courtesy of Google. Thanks Uval and Scott!]</p> <p class="inForum">The discussion continues in the <a href="/forum/139142.html">existing forum thread</a>.</p> <p class="update"><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome/">Google Chrome is available for download now</a>.</p><p class="postFooter" id="postFooterLast"><a href="/archive/2008-09-02-n72.html">Google Chrome Screenshots</a> by Philipp Lenssen</p> <p class="morePosts">>> <a href="/calendar/">More posts</a></p> <script type="text/javascript"> window.google_analytics_uacct = "UA-60595-1"; </script> <p class="adBlockBottom"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #777">Advertisement</span><br /><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </p><div class="adBlockBottomBreak"> </div></div> <div class="context"><span class="topLinksMain"><strong><a href="/">Blog</a>  |  <a href="/forum/">Forum</a></strong></span>     <span id="topLinksMoreSwitch"><a href="javascript:showMoreTopLinks()">more >></a></span> <span id="topLinksMore"><a href="/calendar/">Archive</a> | <a href="/rss.xml">Feed</a> | <a href="/google/">Google's blogs</a> | <a href="/google-blog.html">About</a></span></div> <div class="moreContext"> <div class="adBlock"><span class="adBlockDisclosure">Advertisement</span><div class="adBlockAdLargeTopRight"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4135663670627621" data-ad-slot="5830953204" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div></div><form class="blogSearch" method="get" action="/search/"><p><input name="q" type="text" size="16" class="inputBox" />  <input type="submit" value="Search" class="submitButton" /></p></form><p><a href="/google-blog.html">This site</a> unofficially covers Google™ and more with <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/" rel="license">some rights reserved</a>. 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