Re: Google launches open source web browser in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21043692 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:40:39 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:40:39 EDT Re: Google launches open source web browser http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043716 Dogfather : And in this case it is. It's more web 2 dot oh, with a nice java engine. None of this is a threat to the Windows platform by any stretch of the imagination. We'll see some cool cloud based apps come out of it and that's about it. All the fancy java engines in the world won't make google docs a viable replacement for Office.

Let's not forget, Chrome is simply a Windows application as is their JVM. In the GUI, from what I've seen in the comic, there is nothing really revolutionary. Speed dial for example has been available as extensions as have many other of Chrome's features. And it's based on Webkit, the same engine behind Apple's Safari. Personally I think this new browser is Google's reaction IE8's Google Analytics circumventing 'porn-mode'. If they control the browser, they get to control want 'privacy' features are available. And who knows what behind the scenes analytics they'll eventually try to do under the guise of "user features".

The java engine itself is interesting but I don't know enough about it to see how Sun will react to it. They may react as they did to MSJVM and sue V8 out of existence.

If it's a threat to anything, it's Firefox, given Google's support of Mozilla and how that may now change.

Meanwhile I don't have much interest for running a browser made by the largest internet ad company. For some reason I think their thoughts on ad blocking and browsing privacy would differ from mine.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043716 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:00:51 EDT Re: Google launches open source web browser http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043697 GOLFnSUN :
said by Dogfather See Profile :

And sometimes a browser is just a browser.l
And sometimes it isn't:
»www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02···browser/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043697 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:49:16 EDT Re: Google launches open source web browser http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043692 Dogfather : And sometimes a browser is just a browser.l]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043692 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:47:55 EDT RE: Google launches open source web browser http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21043662 GOLFnSUN : The new Google Chrome browser is REALLY an attack on Windows and not on IE & Firefox.
»www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/me···-killer/
Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft.

Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser that launches tomorrow at Google.com/chrome, will give them a real foothold on the desktop and way more control over how web applications perform. While it seems that Chrome is aimed at IE and Firefox, the target is really Windows.

They’ve built their own Javascript engine despite the fact that Webkit already has one. This should make Ajax applications like Gmail and Google Docs absolutely roar. When combined with Gears, which allows for offline access (see what MySpace did with Gears to understand how powerful it is), Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows.

Expect to see millions of web devices, even desktop web devices, in the coming years that completely strip out the Windows layer and use the browser as the only operating system the user needs. That was going to happen anyway, but Chrome + Gears just made the decision a whole lot easier for hardware manufacturers to make.

Microsoft, meanwhile, is stuck with a bloated closed source browser that they don’t even tether to their search engine for fear of more antitrust woes. Google can push their search engine and other web services all day long on Chrome, with no government interference. So not only will Chrome drive lots of incremental revenue to Google, it also paves the way for a Microsoft-free computing experience.

Google’s days of unchecked growth may soon come to an end. They are quickly becoming the new Microsoft.

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