Google Chrome and the Google Earth plug-in

September 2, 2008 By 6 Comments

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”.

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  1. Adam Estrada says:
    September 2, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    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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  2. Roman N says:
    February 19, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    Chrome support launched today! Sorry for the wait, y’all.

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