5 ms·

Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this. Google are basically old Microsoft at this point.

neilsimp1 10y ago
I really liked having a separate application to open for Google Earth instead of a browser. I take it this won't be an option any more?
- heavymark 10y ago
  Chrome allows you to turn any website into it's own app, but saving a website such as Google Earth to your bookmarks then drag that to chrome://apps and right click on it and choose Open Full Screen and create short cut. So it will you will be able to open it like an app and find it in spotlight/alfred and you can still use chrome for websites separately.
  - JetSpiegel 10y ago
    An "app". Just a glorified browser page without chrome. You can achieve the same thing with a shortcut.
- coldpizza 10y ago
  Somebody will probably create an Electron app that wraps the web app, just like with Google Play Music
- sorenjan 10y ago
  Fortunately yes, it is. > Of course, you can still access and download Google Earth 7 for desktop https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-earth/ https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-e...
sgift 10y ago
> Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this. Depends on the reason for "Chrome only" - if they use (upcoming) standards not supported so far by other browsers I see no harm in it. Other browsers will catch up in time.
- ungzd 10y ago
  It uses Native Client, but seems that at some time development of NaCl had been stopped[1] so it's strange that new Google product still uses this technology. Maybe they'll port it to Webassembly later. Or maybe plans had changed and they're betting on NaCl, Talk plugin and other activexey stuff. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=239656#c160 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=239656...
- r3bl 10y ago
  It indeed doesn't work on Firefox (when switching user agents). Doesn't seem like it's doing much in Chromium neither, just showing a static page: http://imgur.com/a/Q00OI http://imgur.com/a/Q00OI
- duiker101 10y ago
  Doesn't seem to work in Vivaldi either :(
  - untangle 10y ago
    Nor Opera
smonff 10y ago
It looks like a very good shinny little toy to convince those who have not Chrome installed yet that Chrome is a good browser. It surely is, but for me, it seems weird that a huge company like Google will give you these marvelous toys for free and they don't take anything in exchange. What I mean is that putting people in a g-bubble like this is bad. I also wonder what the shinny 3 dimensional thing can add as a value to a standard map. In term of education for example: people don't even know how to read a map without a GPS and a map app now. I don't say that map apps are bad, but I don't know...
- criley2 10y ago
  * They didn't know how to read maps before * They still can't read maps and gps today, they just follow instructions
thinkMOAR 10y ago
Seems to fail for me on Chrome on all my OSX machines. Colleague on windows/chrome it works fine..
SonicSoul 10y ago
chrome is free, fast to download, runs on most platforms, and in no way forcing you to use it exclusively. It's not like they're asking you to download an .exe with direct3d drivers. you think they need to support microsofts 30 browsers or shouldn't release at all?
- andy_ppp 10y ago
  It's not bitching, I just think as a professional I'd be required to launch products with requisite browser support and I don't have the resources of Google. The whole point of Web Standards and the Open Web have been made numerous times and if this was Microsoft requiring Internet Explorer in 2017 I'm sure they'd get pilloried. I'm not seeing how this is different than an Intranet site requiring Internet Explorer or a video site requiring Flash. Unless you believe that Internet Explorer and Flash are "Bad" and Chrome is "Good"?
  - SonicSoul 10y ago
    not a bad point, but I think web standards and open web apply to most content. if you're pushing the envelope in what a browser can do for a flagship product, that becomes exponentially hard to support.
hughw 10y ago
To what, if any, extent is Chrome itself collecting user browsing data? That is part of Brave's business model -- there are many things about your behavior only the browser can know. Is Chrome doing the same?
d0vs 10y ago
Chrome-only and that's if there's no bug. I have the latest version of Chrome on Ubuntu but my GPU (GTX 960m, latest drivers) is blocked and the --ignore-gpu-blacklist flag doesn't work.
bitmapbrother 10y ago
Google has already said other browser support is coming soon. So I guess your little analogy doesn't work anymore. >Get the new Google Earth now on the web in Chrome; on Android as it rolls out this week; and on iOS and other browsers in the near future. (Of course, you can still access and download Google Earth 7 for desktop.)

I really liked having a separate application to open for Google Earth instead of a browser. I take it this won't be an option any more?

heavymark 10y ago
Chrome allows you to turn any website into it's own app, but saving a website such as Google Earth to your bookmarks then drag that to chrome://apps and right click on it and choose Open Full Screen and create short cut. So it will you will be able to open it like an app and find it in spotlight/alfred and you can still use chrome for websites separately.
- JetSpiegel 10y ago
  An "app". Just a glorified browser page without chrome. You can achieve the same thing with a shortcut.
coldpizza 10y ago
Somebody will probably create an Electron app that wraps the web app, just like with Google Play Music
sorenjan 10y ago
Fortunately yes, it is. > Of course, you can still access and download Google Earth 7 for desktop https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-earth/ https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-e...

sgift 10y ago

> Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this. Depends on the reason for "Chrome only" - if they use (upcoming) standards not supported so far by other browsers I see no harm in it. Other browsers will catch up in time.

ungzd 10y ago
It uses Native Client, but seems that at some time development of NaCl had been stopped[1] so it's strange that new Google product still uses this technology. Maybe they'll port it to Webassembly later. Or maybe plans had changed and they're betting on NaCl, Talk plugin and other activexey stuff. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=239656#c160 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=239656...
r3bl 10y ago
It indeed doesn't work on Firefox (when switching user agents). Doesn't seem like it's doing much in Chromium neither, just showing a static page: http://imgur.com/a/Q00OI http://imgur.com/a/Q00OI
duiker101 10y ago
Doesn't seem to work in Vivaldi either :(
- untangle 10y ago
  Nor Opera

smonff 10y ago

It looks like a very good shinny little toy to convince those who have not Chrome installed yet that Chrome is a good browser. It surely is, but for me, it seems weird that a huge company like Google will give you these marvelous toys for free and they don't take anything in exchange. What I mean is that putting people in a g-bubble like this is bad. I also wonder what the shinny 3 dimensional thing can add as a value to a standard map. In term of education for example: people don't even know how to read a map without a GPS and a map app now. I don't say that map apps are bad, but I don't know...

criley2 10y ago
* They didn't know how to read maps before * They still can't read maps and gps today, they just follow instructions

thinkMOAR 10y ago

Seems to fail for me on Chrome on all my OSX machines. Colleague on windows/chrome it works fine..

SonicSoul 10y ago

chrome is free, fast to download, runs on most platforms, and in no way forcing you to use it exclusively. It's not like they're asking you to download an .exe with direct3d drivers. you think they need to support microsofts 30 browsers or shouldn't release at all?

andy_ppp 10y ago
It's not bitching, I just think as a professional I'd be required to launch products with requisite browser support and I don't have the resources of Google. The whole point of Web Standards and the Open Web have been made numerous times and if this was Microsoft requiring Internet Explorer in 2017 I'm sure they'd get pilloried. I'm not seeing how this is different than an Intranet site requiring Internet Explorer or a video site requiring Flash. Unless you believe that Internet Explorer and Flash are "Bad" and Chrome is "Good"?
- SonicSoul 10y ago
  not a bad point, but I think web standards and open web apply to most content. if you're pushing the envelope in what a browser can do for a flagship product, that becomes exponentially hard to support.

hughw 10y ago

To what, if any, extent is Chrome itself collecting user browsing data? That is part of Brave's business model -- there are many things about your behavior only the browser can know. Is Chrome doing the same?

d0vs 10y ago

Chrome-only and that's if there's no bug. I have the latest version of Chrome on Ubuntu but my GPU (GTX 960m, latest drivers) is blocked and the --ignore-gpu-blacklist flag doesn't work.

bitmapbrother 10y ago

Google has already said other browser support is coming soon. So I guess your little analogy doesn't work anymore. >Get the new Google Earth now on the web in Chrome; on Android as it rolls out this week; and on iOS and other browsers in the near future. (Of course, you can still access and download Google Earth 7 for desktop.)