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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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So the fine people at Google finally admit they have their own browser. Just what the world needs: another cobbled together Google project released in Beta only to be neglected a few years later. Yay, Google. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Since I can't see them writing their own html renderer, its likely just a customized mozilla, so who gives a crap -- |
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alethiophile
Member #9,349
December 2007
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Wow. Well, IMO it would be hard to beat the latest Firefox, but Google generally does things well. -- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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It uses WebKit, but your point still is valid. Google doesn't write much of their own stuff, they just borrow or buy and later on forget it all. And sorry, but most of Google's products are crap. The good ones are Search, E-Mail, and Maps, and a few that they just bought out and did nothing with. Hardly any of their products actually work together, and the majority of them are silently left to rot away. |
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Mokkan
Member #4,355
February 2004
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I find this interesting... but do we really need another web browser?
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nonnus29
Member #2,606
August 2002
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Google needs to build a browser based web browser, then they're web based desktop would be a REAL threat to Microsoft.... |
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alethiophile
Member #9,349
December 2007
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So...you have to run a Google web app to use their web browser? How is that different from a web proxy? (Yes, I know it's a joke.) -- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Quote: I find this interesting... but do we really need another web browser? Of course not. This might chip away a bit from IE, which is good, but I doubt it will be very successful at that. Instead, it will be Google's test bed for pushing their search engine, new ideas, and non-standard concepts down people's throats. Probably the only good that will come out of it will be patches for WebKit and (supposedly) a much faster open source JavaScript engine. But of course neither of those require a new browser. |
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Paul whoknows
Member #5,081
September 2004
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Quote: it's like hal [images.google.com] meets simon says [images.google.com].
____ "The unlimited potential has been replaced by the concrete reality of what I programmed today." - Jordan Mechner. |
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kazzmir
Member #1,786
December 2001
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I like the motivation google gives for this new browser http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/# on page 2 said: First, browsers need to be more stable. When you're writing an important email or editing a document, a browser crash is a big deal. Uh hu. I guess some people use gmail but who edits a document in a browser? |
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Quote: but who edits a document in a browser?
soon everyone will... Dave. -- |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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There are lots of reasons for "editing a document" in a web browser; including blogs, forums posts, online website design, and google docs. ----------- |
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Kibiz0r
Member #6,203
September 2005
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I think the point is the internet is becoming less passive and more active, therefore browser stability is becoming more important than it was before. And I know ML is cynical, but why so much so towards Google? Did they shit in your cornflakes or something? --- |
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Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
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Is it possible that Chrome is to Android as Safari is to the iPhone, i.e. they needed a version of the mobile browser that people with 95% of computers could use so that they can test web content? EDIT: wait, they've introduced it with a comic strip? Then if you're not a fat, basement-dwelling American with every episode of Buffy on both VHS and DVD then you're probably not the target audience. [My site] [Tetrominoes] |
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FMC
Member #4,431
March 2004
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I'm quite optimist, it might actually be worth to try, there are some feature that seem very nice. [FMC Studios] - [Caries Field] - [Ctris] - [Pman] - [Chess for allegroites] |
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Peter Wang
Member #23
April 2000
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I haven't bothered reading the comic yet but I'm looking forward to a browser that runs each tab in a separate process, for the extra stability and perhaps security - I don't know how hard it is to leak information between different pages through Javascript in a single process, but it surely would be harder with multiple processes. And we'd automatically (almost) get better concurrency so that something executing in one tab won't block the tab that I'm actually looking at (not that you need multiple processes for that).
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Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
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Quote: I haven't bothered reading the comic yet Possibly because you're not a child? I haven't read it, but I figure it goes like this:
[My site] [Tetrominoes] |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Quote: And I know ML is cynical, but why so much so towards Google? I'm just saying it as I see it. Maybe Google will blow the world away with Chrome, but about the only application I've seen them build in house is Google Talk—and they cannot even port that tiny little program to OS X or Linux. |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Originally I read Matthew's cynicism and just didn't even bother checking it out. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Why is the comic so long? I got to page 20 and got bored of going ahead to see how long it was. |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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BAF said: Why is the comic so long? I got to page 20 and got bored of going ahead to see how long it was.
I'm on 23 and I'm excited to go on. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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I like how, if the security of Chrome is as the comic says, plugins are the only real issue with it. So an issue with Flash that can infect you with a virus can still affect you with Chrome. I only use Flash because it's the most popular plugin that I know of. (The page where you see a plugin breaking a windows is funny though) --- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Anybody can write a comic book. Whitepapers are always more impressive than the products they describe. |
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Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
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What have they got? They've moved the title bar into the tabs, implemented the tabs as separate threads, taken speed dial from Opera and aped Safari's tab management. Anything else? I'm all for progressive improvements, I'm not all for drawing a cartoon to try to make them sound impressive. [My site] [Tetrominoes] |
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I'm sick of FireFox climbing to 700MB unnecessarily. I'm excited that Google Chrome is open source too. That should help a lot. I'm excited for a beta.
