{"id":137,"date":"2008-09-03T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-04T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:09:59","slug":"google_join_the_browser_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Google join the browser race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the heels of last week&#8217;s release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/internet-explorer\/beta\/\">Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2<\/a>, Google has launched a beta of its own browser, called Chrome, for Windows. So far it looks like a very good first entry into the market and while there are issues with some types of multimedia content (the Silverlight site says it&#8217;s not compatible) and some sites don&#8217;t work because they don&#8217;t recognise the user agent string, it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">google.com\/chrome<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addendum: Check out the comments regarding the unusual install location. The way it&#8217;s installed means you can just move the Chrome folder and you&#8217;ve got a portable app! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the heels of last week&#8217;s release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Google has launched a beta of its own browser, called Chrome, for Windows. So far it looks like a very good first entry into the market &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}