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Re: Google launches open source web browser
And sometimes a browser is just a browser.l |
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| said by Dogfather  :And sometimes a browser is just a browser.l And sometimes it isn't:
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September 2nd, @08:42AM
| 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. |
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