Google Chrome Web Store Launches: Check Out HuffPost NewsGlide App

Google's Chrome browser is the fastest browser on the internet, blowing away the competition and making Firefox feel like IE. It has already grown to over 120 million users and is taking market share from other browsers at a very fast pace.

Chrome recently launched the Chrome Web Store where they are encouraging developers to publish applications that behave and act similarly to iPad apps but within the Chrome browser. Users can use the Web Store to download apps for their Chrome browser, as well as for Google's just-released Chrome OS.

Google wrote in a blog post, "The store will be featured prominently in Chrome, helping people discover great apps and developers reach millions of users around the world."

It is currently available only in the U.S., but will be coming to other countries soon. Both free and paid apps are available, and initial apps include apps from Gilt, the New York Times, Facebook, YouTube, and The Huffington Post (See below).

"The Chrome Web Store itself can be accessed using any browser. Currently only users of Google Chrome are able to install an app from the Chrome Web Store, which adds a shortcut on the Chrome browser's new tab page," said a Google spokesperson in a statement, according to CNET. The spokesperson added, "The protocols for describing and installing apps are all open-sourced and are free to be implemented by other browsers.

The Huffington Post has partnered with Google Web Store's team to create a unique application that leverages all the speed and features of Chrome's browser. The official Huffington Post Chrome App is called NewsGlide and is getting great reviews and feedback in its early launch. It is still in beta, but it is stable, fast and addictive.

Get up to-the-minute reports, blogs and analysis with quick-view articles from all sections of the Huffington Post. It's made to be ultra-fast. You can quickly share to your social networks, share to email, read comments and glide through the news experience.

Features:

• Constantly updated


• Easy navigation


• Scan through the latest headlines


• Flip through sections


• Quick read articles


• Social sharing functions


• Pull up article comments in one click

If you are already browsing in Chrome:
INSTALL AND REVIEW THE APP HERE

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Comments

[Sizzzle]

03:28 AM on 12/09/2010

Way to be creative google! Do they do anything original or just rip off other company's idea's and work? So lame

[MrVee]

02:32 PM on 12/08/2010

BTW HuffPo, I like the new Google App. It could stand some freshing up and better memory management but it's slick and I dig the layout.

[edmond dantes]

02:10 PM on 12/08/2010

Google stole another idea from Apple? I am shocked!

[MrVee]

02:37 PM on 12/08/2010

I think I've seen this same online web shopping layout on Amazon.com. (1994) Long before there was an Apple app store. (2008) But thanks for the revisionist history lesson.

[kevski]

02:50 PM on 12/08/2010

Nice slap down MrVee

[ClassicLeft]

03:45 PM on 12/08/2010

because selling applications online was apple's invention right?

[edmond dantes]

11:08 AM on 12/09/2010

A centralized store that sells pre-approved 3rd party apps for a mobile platform. Yes, that was Apple's invention.

[sharpstick]

12:23 PM on 12/08/2010

Well, I guess congratulations are in order. Google has invented the Apple iPhone and the Apple App Store.

[sal678]

11:41 AM on 12/08/2010

Everyone copies Apple ? Why not just submit ?

[MrVee]

11:19 AM on 12/08/2010

I've checked this out and I have to say, this is off the chain what Google Chrome has done with their browser. It has changed the game for sure. This I truly respect about Google's direction with their browser.

[PhillyKing]

01:00 PM on 12/08/2010

have you tried ie9 beta??? it was shaping up to be just like chrome.... i played with it a bit but i love chrome too much to really put time into any other browsers anymore..

[Alien Nation]

01:55 PM on 12/08/2010

Now you can pay for services you would have received for free. Awesome!

[MrVee]

02:26 PM on 12/08/2010

Yes I have PhillyKing and I must say I like what their doing with it.Its really fast on the net and renders well. I'm also happy to get the unified address / search window too. I only have a simple request is that after 8 versions of IE, do you think we could move spell-check to the front burner?

@alien Nation, what services would that be?

[Rasalom]

11:09 AM on 12/08/2010

Paid apps? HAH. And boy this doesn't sound like a PR piece. I'll stick to my Firefox...

[Robert MacEwan]

10:34 AM on 12/08/2010

the huffapp (and I'm a fan of Huff) is slow and doesn't allow for comments on articles - just saying

[Revee]

01:07 PM on 12/08/2010

My experience was a little different in that it was much faster (I always used Chrome for HP access).
But I missed not being able to comment/reply from the App as you did.

[Leviathan21]

10:13 AM on 12/08/2010

Chrome is definitely very fast - but only for basic browsing. Flash videos keep crashing and it takes a long time to download large email attachments. For those uses, I frequently find myself going to IE (which is slow, but reliable).

[Dnietz]

10:47 AM on 12/08/2010

What it seems to me is that Chrome simply requires a huge amount of RAM to function efficiently.

My laptop with an i5 processor has 8GB of RAM and that runs very smoothly and quickly with no hesitation and no freezes even with several dozen pages open.

When the same laptop had 4GB of RAM just a couple of months ago, I would open up a couple of dozen pages and start to feel it slow down a bit. Still no crashes, but it would hesitate sometimes.

All of what I describe above is on 64bit Win 7. I'm sure the experience will be different on other OSes.

[MrVee]

11:26 AM on 12/08/2010

This laptop I'm on now has 3GB or Ram running AMD 64x2 Windows 7 Ultimate, Google Chrome ver. 9.0.597.10. Doesn't crash even with 12 windows open and IDM doing its thing in the background. If you haven't tried Google Chrome 9, get it and holla back.
So you have the I5 with 8GB? (drool)

[stonefeet]

10:12 AM on 12/08/2010

ps. huff post PLZ add a way to make comments to your google chrome app

[stonefeet]

10:11 AM on 12/08/2010

surely this is coming to google tv also, the huff post app would look awesome on my tv

[ThatsTheTheWayItIs]

10:11 AM on 12/08/2010

Firefox is open source, belongs to the people, the world. We used it instead of IE for that reason, same applies to Chrome. Computing belongs to us, not to MS or Google. Chrome source code is available, but Google controls its direction and changes, not the open source community.

Who needs "protocols for describing and installing apps are all open-sourced and are free to be implemented by other browsers."? Use Firefox and you'll have all the source code, not just the protocols. Firefox is the leader, let Chrome implement open standards from it.

"Standard is better than better". Firefox is the standard, faster is no reason to use Chrome.

[Dnietz]

10:51 AM on 12/08/2010

We are discussing technology.

Although I agree with your philosophical opinion (seiously, I do), in the end the performance of Chrome beats FireFox. I used FireFox for a long time, but it started developing flaws and didn't improve fast enough.

Chrome doesn't crash and simply works. FireFox is not going to beat Chrome based on a moral  appeal, no matter how true the argument

[Blup]

03:14 PM on 12/08/2010

"Chrome doesn't crash and simply works. FireFox is not going to beat Chrome based on a moral appeal, no matter how true the argument"

And that is a sad commentary, since Google's intentions are less than honorable. This has been shown again and again. Trading speed for privacy is just plain foolish.

[ThatsTheTheWayItIs]

06:02 PM on 12/08/2010

I started working at Digital in 1973. I worked at Apollo Computer, had superior technology to Sun, lost because Sun was Unix, was more standard. HP bought us, that's where I learned the standard mantra. I wrote code for both PCs and Macs in 1985. Again, Macs superior, lost to MSDOS. I could go on.

Open and standard is more important than technologically superior. Particularly performance: who cares if Chrome is 40% faster when you have gigahertz processors. The difference is one years performance increase, Chrome on a year-older machine will be same speed.

I'm retired, but the last code I did is now running on DirectTV DVRs. They run Linux, as will virtually all device-type computers. Free and open code, best OS I ever used. Having source code that you can modify is key. Chrome may reveal its source code, but Google alone decides what is in the next version. That is not "open source" in any meaningful way. Linux is the future, all other OSs are dead in long run.

[kmichal2000]

10:55 AM on 12/08/2010

Chrome is open source as well.

[MrVee]

12:55 PM on 12/08/2010

Minor correction. "Chromium" is open source. Google Chrome is not open source.

@Dnietz, right again. But this is a first to read someone say (not you but thatsthewayitis) that even if Firefox is slower on the net, go with slower because of "standards." I need to ask what "standards" are being ignored by Google Chrome? And there is no law or even a rule that says a browser should be open and not proprietary.

[lemmyk73]

09:58 AM on 12/08/2010

Chrome blows. Especially if you hit websites not approved by Google. Boycott Google period.

[PhillyKing]

01:04 PM on 12/08/2010

i did not know youporn was approved by google, cause i go there with chrome and it works perfectly...lol

[alpinefresh]

09:55 AM on 12/08/2010

"...where they are encouraging developers to publish applications that behave and act similarly to iPad apps but within the Chrome browser."

Laughing so hard at this.

[Bronhi]

09:52 AM on 12/08/2010

Awesome. Love Chrome.