Google Chrome
This is an interesting project, but it may not have the intended effect. Google recently extended their contract with Mozilla to make Google the default search engine in the upper right corner of Firefox. Google Chrome, if it took off, would probably eat away at Mozilla use, not Internet Explorer. Then again, it is open source. Mozilla may just take bits of Chrome back with them and use them to improve Firefox.
The reason more people use IE than anything else is pretty simple. It works, it came with their machine, and there's no compelling reason to change. Google will have to work miracles to make Chrome more than a novelty.
Update: Google has officially announced Chrome. It will be available sometime tomorrow, and the comic book explaining the concepts behind Chrome is available on Google Books.
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I think this new browser will be great and will do very very well with young people. Young people is who this is targeted for. They will download anything novelty and new. This will be the next best online toy. As long as Google makes it easy and quick to download it will do well. Just watch
So, Google stole 2 of Mozilla foundation’s engineers. Had Microsoft done that, there would have been an Internet wide backlash.
Funny, how Google gets a pass for doing so many ‘Evil’ things.
We aren’t educated enough to realize that a convicted felon is not in the state of perpetual criminal acts and a so called priest is not always devout.
My favorite browser so far is Firefox, but I am thinking that Google Chrome will have something new as a challenging browser, so what will happen to Firefox start page later on. Will firefox change that?
–abeen
http://abeen0.blogspot.com
I’m very Disappointed that Google’s Chrome browser does not support MathML (Math Markup Language). Mozilla’s Firefox does!!
Uhm… little history lesson here. Microsoft did EXACTLY that. The original Mozilla was based on Mosaic written basically as a version 2.0 of that. Microsoft then went out and bought Mosaic once it realized there was a market. That is why the first version of IE was so far behind Netscape.
i keep learning about more and more advantages and features with Chrome, with privacy, for example; now if only they would take care of the browser’s fickle cookie management…
i think those peeps at mozilla have had a thief!
correct me if im wrong but since fire fox 1.5 and up to version 2.0 if you look in your hard drive
at program files MOZILLA the fire fox browser has always been named as chrome as a core component so did the google team want praise for what is not all there own work big style OPEN source is just that!
Actually, “chrome” is the term for browser interface elements, like menus and buttons, and that’s where Google got the name.
ok mr google..
but you still worked with MOZILLA and your definition of CHROME is remarkable! you could have used any wording you liked! but again its odd you choose CHROME as your interface elements
i suppose then we must be correct! and say thats what firefox,s chrome definition is elements of a browser an open source one at that.