Google Chrome and the Google Earth plug-in
As you’ve probably heard, Google released “Chrome” today, their new web browser. Thus far, I am very impressed with it — it’s amazingly fast.
However, I can’t get it to work with the Google Earth plug-in. Considering that the browser is based on Webkit, and Safari didn’t yet work with the plug-in, it’s not a big surprise. Still, it’s kind of sad that Google’s product can’t work in their own browser.
Anyone found a way to make it work yet?
Update: Google confirms that it doesn’t work, but promises an update is “coming soon”.
Continue reading » · Written on: 09-02-08 · 4 Comments »
Remember…it took a few days for this plug in to work with FireFox 3.0. This was released as a beta product only a few hours ago. I also found it interesting to learn that most of the Google Teams are pretty disconnected hence why they don’t always play nicely with each other immediately after new releases.
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