{"id":122,"date":"2008-09-03T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/whats-that-you-say-google-released-a-browser\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:39:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T10:39:24","slug":"whats-that-you-say-google-released-a-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/whats-that-you-say-google-released-a-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s that you say?  Google released a browser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t really think I&#8217;d be posting anything about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Chrome<\/a>&#8230; there&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/techmeme.com\/search\/query?q=chrome&amp;wm=false\">so much<\/a> out there already.\u00a0 Having downloaded and installed it though there are some interesting things in there that I thought I&#8217;d comment on.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Proxy Settings &#8211; it would seem that Chrome uses\/obeys the Windows Internet Properties, so if you&#8217;re configuring proxy settings etc via GPO Chrome will obey these settings.\u00a0 From an enterprise perspective this is good &#8211; it was the first thing people asked here for example.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to see Google following this route, though end users wanting to bypass said proxy servers might not like it..!<em>It&#8217;s worth noting that I imported settings etc from IE during the installation, so Chrome might have picked up this behaviour from there.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to test it later.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Integrated Authentication &#8211; Having just visited our SharePoint based intranet I noticed that Chrome isn&#8217;t passing through my Windows credentials to the site resulting in a logon prompt that I don&#8217;t get with IE.\u00a0 Once you&#8217;ve logged in though, the credentials are cached for the remainder of the session.<\/li>\n<li>Sharepoint &#8211; From an initial look, Chrome doesn&#8217;t seem to offer a great experience in SharePoint, I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s even providing the <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc263526.aspx\">&#8216;Level 2 Browser<\/a>&#8216; experience you get with Firefox et al.<\/li>\n<li>Default Search Engine &#8211; This is something I&#8217;ve never configured on my computer, though I do always use Google.\u00a0 It was nice to see that Chrome picked up what must have been the standing default and is defaulting to Live Search.\u00a0 Not that I use that, but I like that they haven&#8217;t just defaulted Google.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t really think I&#8217;d be posting anything about Chrome&#8230; there&#8217;s just so much out there already.\u00a0 Having downloaded and installed it though there are some interesting things in there that I thought I&#8217;d comment on. Proxy Settings &#8211; it would seem that Chrome uses\/obeys the Windows Internet Properties, so if you&#8217;re configuring proxy settings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/whats-that-you-say-google-released-a-browser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s that you say?  Google released a browser?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151,21,149],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-chome","tag-google","tag-web","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}