Inadvertently an early test version of the new open source operating system – Google Chrome OS has been leaked online. The test version (which is approximately 139 MB) was discovered on the FTP server of Google and was quickly removed too. But by that time it had already been downloaded by many user. After installation here is what I found, there is a kind of modified version of the browser – Google Chrome, also possible to see with the logo of Chrome OS is different from the logo of the browser. Furthermore, a clock plus battery status and network status. Clicking on the logo in this case opened a Google Apps page which you should have a Google.com account to login. Google Chrome Operating System was announced by Google in July and since then there have been several occasions, screenshots being leaked subsequently found to be fake. With the leaking of this version we know how Google chrome works..
Also, here are some basic facts as per techcrunch about the new Google chrome OS.
– Frequent Crashes
– HTML5 works
– only supports .ogg (No H.264 love)
Browser Info:
– Internal Code Name: Mozilla
– Browser’s Name: Netscape
– Browser Version: 5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.4.0; en-US)
– AppleWebKit/532.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.222.5 Safari/532.2
– User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.4.0; en-US)
– AppleWebKit/532.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.222.5 Safari/532.2
– Browser Language: en-US
– Computer Platform: Linux i686
Also, Frederickson has placed the files he downloaded a few days ago on a Rapidshare account for anyone to access. You can find them here.
Here are some screenshots of Google chrome OS:
If you’ve downloaded and tried Google Chrome OS, send me some tips..
