WEBVTT - How Web Browser Updates Work 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:08.959 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:18.000 tech stuff from how stuff Works dot com. Yo, Sup, 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.320 Welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Poulette. I'm 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.440 an editor here at how Stuff Works, and I'm joined 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.960 by one of our most fantastic writers, Jonathan Strickland. Oh 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.040 pardon me, I was just browsing okay, like uh on 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:40.040 Internet Explore. Oh well, Internet Explore eight Beta. We thought 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.680 we'd talked a little bit today about web browsers and 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.479 specifically kind of some updates that have happened over the 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.560 summer of two thousand eight. It's kind of the summer 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.200 of web browsers in a way. Yeah, I think about it. Yeah, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.040 there have been a lot of browser updates. Yeah, which, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.320 you know, it's pretty i don't know, maybe less than 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.800 exciting topic for a lot of people, but you know, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.680 actually has brought a lot of advancements, right and considering 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.800 that most of our worklies on Internet browsers for us, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.840 it's really interesting. So we're going to infect you with 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.160 our enthusiasm and interest in this topic. I think I'm 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.759 glad you said enthusiasm and interest. I'm glad that. In fact. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.000 All right, let's move on to Internet Explore. H ally, Yeah, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.720 so this has been out for for a little while. Yeah, um, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.679 you know it's uh, the newest version of Internet Explorer. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.959 It's got it actually has brought some some different changes 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:39.000 colored tabs and wow, you know, but that can actually 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.720 be pretty, you know, pretty useful in being able to 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.080 figure out which piece you were just looking at you. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.240 Oh yeah, it's a great one. Yeah yeah, we joke 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.960 about it, but really, these these things that seem pedestrian 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.840 do actually have some uses. One of the the updates 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.720 in the Internet Explore eight uh really was just behind 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.400 the scenes stuff that you might not notice immediately but 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.000 will make a big difference in your browsing if that's 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.360 what you use. Um, they updated, they improved their HTML 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.560 reading capabilities and other markup language reading capabilities so that 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.960 websites look the way they're supposed to look. Um. As 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:20.359 the web grows and evolves, it's become a lot more complex. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.880 Like originally back in the day, they were all kind 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:27.079 of text files almost when the occasional picture and if 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.320 you're really lucky, a MIDI file that would have absolutely 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.240 no control and you play over and over as you 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.680 looked at a website, but now they're far more complex. Yeah. Well, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.480 you know, the web was never really meant to do 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.040 what we're doing with it UM, so you know, it 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.600 was originally used for basically for academic use and for research, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.880 so it wasn't supposed to have all these flash files 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.880 and you know, sound files embedded in them, and e 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.680 commerce and all these other things. So the web browser 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.000 has had to evolve to take advantage of this stuff. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.639 It's actually, uh come a long way a very short time, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.000 just ten fifteen years. But so that's that's kind of 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.440 where these updates come into play, is to make sure 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.359 that you can actually you know, see and take advantage 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.000 of all these cool things that people are doing, because 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.000 if you don't update your browser, then you know, the 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.840 browsers just browser doesn't know automatically how to access this 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.280 kind of information. So that's that's what I E. Eight 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.480 is kind of doing. It's it's updated so that you 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.880 can see the best and newest stuff that's out there 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.280 on the Internet. But there are a lot of other 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.080 updates that went along with it as well. For instance, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:41.680 UM sixty four bit downloads that doesn't sound that exciting, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.680 but actually it means that now the Internet Explorer, you 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.120 can you can download files that are in excess of 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.360 four gigabytes in size. Yeah, well that's a big thing. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.960 That is a big thing, especially well, you know, we've 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.000 talked about cloud computing a lot on here, but you know, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.320 as people store more files online and larger files online, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.720 you know you're gonna see fewer software programs offered on 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.120 the shelves of stores because they're you're basically going to 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.280 put your credit card in and get your file download 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.720 directly to your computer. Hey, you know, fast, easy, and 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.560 very very large. So that's it. They're getting ready for that. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.240 When when we get into the point where where uh, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.800 entertainment is digital is through digital downloads. Like if you 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.680 wanted to download an HD movie, that's gonna be a 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.279 big file size, you're gonna need a browser that's capable 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.240 of handling that. So yeah, they are looking ahead and 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.480 that's a good thing because I think, well, in my opinion, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.279 digital downloads are the future of of media distributions. So 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.800 they're kind of getting ahead of that before. You know, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.160 they don't want to lag behind. Good good plan. So 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.440 but there are other things as well, there's the in 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:55.120 private browsing, which has another another common term on the net. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.360 Yeah you wanna, you wanna say, You're gonna let me 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:04.120 say I it's horn mode. Ground wow. Wow, Oh I 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.920 feel so dirty right now. Right in in private browsing 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.360 just limits the number of cookies and tracking information. It 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.240 really cuts down on all of that so that you 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.600 can use your browser to look at websites and not 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.640 necessarily worry about being tracked everywhere or someone Like let's 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.080 say you're sharing a computer and well, well, let's not 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.200 even talk about the porn. Let's just say that it's 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.119 for something perfectly innocent, like I'm shopping for my wife 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.960 for for an anniversary gift, and that would be that 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.560 would be a legitimate use for it. Exactly a legitimate 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.120 use for the in private browsing. I want to shop 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.400 for an anniversary president. I don't want her to be 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.080 aware of it. We're sharing the same computer. I might 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.760 turn that on so that I can look around, and 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.640 that way there's no real trail there, so she's not 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.000 gonna know that I'm buying her a something. I can't 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.160 say it because she listens to the podcast A right then, Okay, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.480 but you know, is it is it functional? What do 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.560 you know? Have you heard anything about how that will now? 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:06.200 Not the king, I mean there have been some Internet Explorer. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.160 It is still in beta, right, so it's got some issues. Right. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.200 Beta's test phase, it's not and it's it's none its 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.760 final format is what beta means, So it means it's 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.160 some things may not work the way they were intended 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.880 to work. Right. Basically, when a new software program is 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.520 UH first launched, it's an alpha phase, which means that 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.160 lots of stuff is not going to work the way 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.080 it's opposed to, and it usually is internalized. It's not. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.080 It's very rare that a company will will release an 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.080 alpha build two external users, but it does happen. It 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.320 does happen, and UH, but you're more likely to see 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.599 a beta, which means that if you install this, it 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:47.600 could you know, behave weird it could you delete your 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.960 entire hard drive contents there, It could be completely incompatible 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.440 with like three other programs that are on your computer. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.240 Or if you've downloaded XP Service Pack three and you 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.520 have two of Internet of Explore eight, you'll have them forever. Yes, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.000 you will not be able to uninstall them, which is 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.960 just one of those kinds of things that happens when 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.000 you try out new software, which we do a lot of. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.280 But after beta, once it's it's passed through the beta 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.640 stage and it's gone through testing, that's when they launch 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.800 it publicly. There's no Gamma. I don't think I've heard 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.080 of any Gamas anyway. No, there's just the Omega, the 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.040 Omega build. Yeah, so uh so, Yeah, that's one of 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.320 the things that that i'd heard was a problem with it. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:32.360 And I also heard um that the newest version of 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.000 Internet Explorer Beta too, um actually uses twice the system 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.440 memory and creates six times the process or threads as 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.880 the newest build of Firefox, which means it's using quite 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.760 a bit of system resources. And you probably will see 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.119 when they finally release Microsoft finally releases the final version, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.440 I'm assuming that they're probably going to take care of that, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.600 and they'll have to scale it back some because otherwise, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.080 if you have multiple applications open, you run the risk 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.040 of either owing to a crawl or actually crashing your 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.280 system as your computer says, hey, I just don't have 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.280 the resources to run all the stuff you want me 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.800 to run, or maybe your old just to your computer, go, yeah, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.560 I might have the little wily kyote moment and sweat 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.720 drops over your top of your monitor. And and the 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.640 reason we're talking about Internet Explorer first is because it's 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.880 the most popular browser on the Internet right now, for now, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.720 for now. Part of that might have something to do 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.680 with it being pre installed on almost every PC that 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.199 you can buy. Um, I'm just saying, yeah, well, that's true. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.680 And a lot of people don't even know that they 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.319 are alternatives out there, right so let's let's go ahead 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.720 and inform them. Let's talk about one of those alternatives. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.120 And we'll talk about the most popular alternative to Internet Explorer, 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.920 which is Firefox. I. Firefox has its roots in the 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.280 Netscape browser. If you're a long time Internet user, you've 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.520 probably used a copy of Netscape and you might have 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.000 thought it had completely gone away, Well, you know a O. L. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.719 Bottom a few years ago, and actually just before that 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.480 Netscape release. They're the source code, basically the code that 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.440 they used to write the program um the guts if 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.320 you will, um to the public and said, hey, do 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.840 what you want to with it. And Firefox is one 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.120 of the results of that that source code release, an 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.560 open source, free web browser and uh, this summer they 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.480 had the Firefox Download Day when they released the Firefox 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.600 three build. Um. Firefox three, of course being the the 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.520 latest version of the browser as of this recording. I'm 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.959 assuming that this will go out before Firefox four comes out, 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.600 since that would be record turnaround time. But they actually 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.080 they had a Firefox had a Firefox Download Day where 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.400 they tried to get as many people to download the 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.640 browser within a twenty four hour period um as they 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.360 possibly could, and more than eight million people downloaded it. Now, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.520 granted there was there was no pre existing record, so 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.760 they set the record set the honestly say that they 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:01.160 But Firefox three, Uh, it's it's got some nice little updates, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.520 which we talked about in another podcast. But we can 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.480 we can do a quick rundown here. Um, the bar 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.679 is awesome, Yes, the awesome bar. Yeah, the awesome bar 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.560 is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, the awesome bar which will sort 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.839 of figure out what you're going to try and type 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.400 as you type it. Uh. I actually do like that feature. Yeah, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.120 it took a little getting used to it first. I 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:23.840 think I think a lot of people kind of resisted 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.840 at first, but but it's it's not bad and it's 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.600 in fact awesome, but Fairefox three. It's based on the 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.280 get Go one point nine web rendering platform, the web 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.960 rendering platform that that kind of tells you a lot 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.520 about how fast your browser is going to go, because 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:47.280 it's how fast the browser can can convert data into 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.760 the images that you're looking at when you're when you're 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.520 viewing a web page. Yeah, so how fast the web 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.559 page actually pops up after you tell it to the load? Right? Right? 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.199 It has, you know, a lot to do with the 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.559 speed of your connection. This be to your processor memory 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.400 and your computer, but it also has to deal with 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.320 the software you're using to do this, and and if 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.520 you're using Firefox three, uh, it's gonna pop up a 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.760 lot faster than if you had been using Firefox too, right. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.200 And other things that we're new in the Firefox browser 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:22.520 include security. Um, there's some more security uh applications built 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.800 into the browser. For instance, now, if you go to 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:30.640 a site that uh that Firefox knows has malware on it, 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.640 malware being malicious software, a warning will pop up and 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.480 tell you, hey, this is a this is a wretched 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.439 hive of scum and villainy. I just thought they're a 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:46.199 little star wars n Old school. UM. So yeah, the 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.360 the malware issue, that's that's definitely helpful. And there are 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.920 other ones as well that that tells you, um, you know, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.400 if if there's a security concern, it'll pop up and 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.960 alert you. It also, um is proactive and alerting uh 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:06.120 anti virus software about problematic web pages. So it's it's 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.440 Firefox is really doing its part and trying to make 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:13.920 the Internet a safer place. Yeah. And um and I 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.120 have to uh to throw in my little pet browser 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.920 project here, um, which sounds like I'm belittling it, but 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.160 I'm not another branch on the Firefox family tree. It's 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.280 never really from the Mozilla Foundation. It's from a group 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.120 of people call who call their browser flock. But it 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.240 uses the same source code and they have a new 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.480 data out of their flock too. Um. The one for 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.400 regular version is still on one at this point, but 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.640 you can download the second version. And the thing is 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.040 it's basically it's basically like what you would see from Firefox. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.240 It's you know, it has the same version of the 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.960 awesome bar it uh. It also you know allows you 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.439 to plug in add ons, which is actually a new 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.680 thing for Internet Explore eight although that's still you know, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.840 they're still working that out in data, but you can 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.520 add you know, customization to your browser. Um. But the 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.920 thing about Flock that makes it so different is it's 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.520 sort of a social networking thing because you can it's 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.400 got built into it a chance to uh network with 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:20.280 your flicker, your Facebook account, your MySpace, Twitter, and all 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.360 kinds of other accounts, and it's built right in along 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.520 with the mail. So a lot of the add on 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.360 ones that you would put into Firefox are already built 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.040 into the Flock interface. Um. So it's kind of cool 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.840 and it's very very much if you've already been using Firefox, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.880 you will find Flocked to be very very similar. And 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.200 it is also free, so you know, I just add 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.600 that on because you know it works so well with Firefox. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.760 You know. Of course, there's Safari has a new update 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.480 from Apple, and uh, you know, Opera actually has a 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.640 new data out along the nine point five. I've lost 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.400 track of which nine point five it is, but I've 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.960 always enjoyed the Opera browser. It is also a free 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.440 browser from a software company in Norway, and they also 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.480 have browsers for mobile phones and for the Wii. Actually, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.760 if you have a Nintendo Wei and you access the Internet. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.320 Opera is a software you would use to that, and 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.560 I think that's all the browsers. Wait wait, wait, first 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.079 of all, first of all, let me let me just say, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.520 in the interest of full disclosure, Uh, Pallette and I 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.840 have a fundamental disagreement on whether or not Safari is 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.840 a good browser. But we were not going to tell 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.560 you who who's who believes what? You aren't just gonna 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.560 let me throw Safari. No, I wasn't gonna let Safari 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.760 go with a wait no, I think I just took 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.320 my hand. Think you all right? I'm not a big 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.360 Safari fan. So that's why I have Firefox on my 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.400 Mac at home. I do have a max so but uh, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:48.240 Safari actually from Apple does also use the Gecko rendering engine. Um, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:49.840 and it is. It is quite fast. A lot of 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.920 people enjoy the fact that it is very uh scaled down. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.880 That's I think that's the one of the biggest things 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.640 that Johnathan has a problem with is that it is 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.240 very minimalistic. There's you know, afford and back and reload 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.000 and pretty much it. There's not a lot of you 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.120 can add add ons, but it's kind of tricky to 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.840 do that, and some of them charge. You know, ad 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.720 blocking is not uh something that's free. You can you 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.720 can down download a free add on for Firefox or 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:23.360 for Flock that does a really great job of blocking advertising. Um, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.320 but the best one I know of for Safari, pith Helmet, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.600 actually is a shareware, so you have to pay a 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.600 small fee to use it and add it to your 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.360 your Safari account, but you can try it for free. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.200 It just starts saying, you know, hey what, okay, fine, no, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.520 I'm just trying not to use a pun Okay, that's 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.560 fine with pith helmet. I know, Okay, the temptation is 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:50.520 too great. Let's let's well, so we are overlooking a browser, Chris. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.200 I'm not surprised you haven't heard about it because it 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.360 really kind of slipped under the radar. But recently a 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.680 little web company by the name of Google entered the 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.720 browser field. Yeah, I've heard of them. Yeah you might, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.760 you know, search around in your memory, you'll probably find it. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:12.240 So Google has come out with Google Chrome, a brand 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:17.880 new web browser, and it's fast. Yeah, it's it's really fast. Actually, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.040 it reminds me of Safari in a way because it 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.680 is very it is also it is also very minimalistic. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.360 It is you know, it's not fancy. It doesn't have 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.560 lots of flashy stuff. Well, if you think of the 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.520 Google web page, right, yeah, Google dot Com, it's it's 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.520 sort of like that. It's very function this is what 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.480 it's for. This is how it works right now, No, no, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.600 we should we should say that first of all, Google 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:43.920 Chrome is in beta mode, beta phase. But then again, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.680 everything Google does kind of beta face. Gmail has been 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.640 out for a couple of years and it's still beta. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.440 So I don't know that we'll ever see an homegap 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:58.400 version of Google Chrome. But it's it's a it's interesting. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.480 It's it's rendering him engine is the WebKit engine, right, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:07.400 So it's it's lightning fast when it's pulling up web pages. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.240 It's you know, if your connection is good, you're gonna 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.199 have a fast browsing experience with Google Chrome. Now, there 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.480 have been people who have reported that not every web 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.840 page loads or displays correctly, but it is still in beta. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.600 It's a brand new browser, and and they actually had 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:29.640 to release it a little ahead of schedule because information 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.760 about the browser leaked out, which it's actually amazing it 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.959 it took so long to leak out because they've been 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.199 working on this for a couple of years and no 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.760 one had heard of this at all until September one 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.879 of two thousand and eight, and then suddenly it's all 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.639 over the internet and everyone has to have it. And 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.520 they on September two, they held a press conference. Google 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.240 held a press conference, and in the middle of the 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:55.679 press conference, Google Chrome went live. Um. I downloaded Google 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.080 Chrome as the press conference was going on. Installed that. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.920 The whole thing took maybe a minute and watch the 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.199 second half of the press conference on Google Chrome. It 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.520 was so fast. Didn't it didn't crash, didn't have any 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.639 problems like that, and uh, it's got some neat features. Um. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.520 One of my favorites is you know, often when I 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.480 when I get a browser, the very first thing I'll 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.440 do is I'll change the homepage. You know, I don't 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.480 want the generic homepage usually. But Google Chrome what it 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.280 does is for its generic homepage, it pulls up nine 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.520 sites that you visit the most and presents them in thumbnail. Uh, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.919 in three rows of three, and you can see the 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.080 thumbnails all in one view. And you can click on 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:41.840 any of those nine and go straight to that, So 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.160 you don't you're not limited to one homepage. You now 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.720 have nine home pages right there, and it's the nine 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.080 sites you go to the most I can tell you've 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.520 never used Opera. No, I have not used Opera. The 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.160 most recent version of Opera has a similar feature where 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.000 you can but you actually can tell it which ones 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.399 you want to. Yeah, you can. You can fiddle with 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.720 the Google ones. Okay, so you can actually tell yeah, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.800 you have to. You have to kind of dig around 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.879 a little bit. The underneat thing is that in Google 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.640 the Google Chrome, it's tabbed browsing, just like with Internet 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.920 Explorer and Firefox, but each tab is its own process, 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.200 which means that there's this that if you close one, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.199 if one's giving you a lot of trouble, you can 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:27.119 actually pull up a tab organizer, see which tab is 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.320 really draining your resources and close it without affecting the 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.960 rest of your browsing experience, and you should see a 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.400 market improvement in in system performance overall, like with Firefox, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.280 Internet Explorer, the older versions. Anyway, you couldn't necessarily do that. 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.280 You you'd be browsing and suddenly everything slows down. You're 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.000 not sure which tab is causing the problems, like with Firefox. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.520 It was usually if it had a lot of flash 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:57.199 on it. Flash pages cause Firefox issues. Um Sometimes you 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:58.840 can only play like the first couple of seconds of 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.520 a flash video and it just stops. And it's because 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.159 there's too much flash on the page and it just 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:07.520 can't process it. Um and And both Internet Explorer and 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.439 Firefox also had problems with memory leaking, where you know, 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.520 the more tabs who had opened, the more memory it 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.760 was consuming, and eventually your your system would grind to 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.760 a halt if you were browsing all day long. Yeah. 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:25.480 Firefox too, you know, had a huge Yeah. Yeah, Firefox 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.040 three is is better. It's it's not perfect, but it's 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.080 much better than it used to be. Well, Google Chrome 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.320 is trying to address those issues head on. And also 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.600 it's it's kind of meant to be a platform for 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.720 all the Google apps and web based applications that are 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.679 out there. It's it's kind of they built it with 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.600 the thought that the Internet has evolved and that we're 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:51.160 moving to this cloud computing model. Why we just love 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.480 saying that, don't we. But we're moving to this cloud 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.080 computing model where everything's on the Internet, So that means 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.440 the browser has to be robust enough to be able 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.080 to handle these kind of applications, and that's kind of 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.520 what Google Chrome is supposed to be. But the uh 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:08.600 that actually brings up a web content brings up the 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.200 problem that most people have had with it. And I'll 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:15.440 quote here a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty free, and non 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:20.840 exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modified, translate, published, publicly, performed, publicly, desplate, display, 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.240 and distribute any content which you submit, post, or display 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.000 on or through Google Chrome. Why would you have a 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:32.080 problem with that? Well, why do you hate America? Well, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:36.480 this language actually came from the original version of the 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.040 End User License Agreement or LA that came along with 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.720 Google Chrome. So if you downloaded Google Chrome during the 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.639 press release announcement and installed it without looking at this, 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.480 you might have gone back and gone, wait a minute, 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:51.800 what did I just say that I could allow Google 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.280 to do with my content? Are you suggesting that I 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.800 didn't read the entire LA before? I don't, Well, you'd 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.920 be right. I I didn't know. I didn't know, and 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.679 and a lot of people don't a lot. But the 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.600 people like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, they had yeah, and 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.200 they had a problem with this because um they said 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.040