Linked by Georgios Kasselakis on Wed 3rd Sep 2008 15:14 UTC
It appears that Google scored a PR success with their Chrome browser. In short, the promise is a web experience where web pages are allowed to behave more like desktop applications. This is done by boosting the abilities of common web pages in terms of performance, while also allowing 'plugins' to enrich the user experience of certain other pages. As it seems, the announcement shot at the heads of people who've been holding their breath for the fabled Google Operating System. However in the following text I will demonstrate that Chrome [based on what we are allowed to know] puts strain on the Designer and Developer communities, is not innovative (save for one feature), and copies ideas liberally from Google's worst enemy.
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Well, it has unfixed security bugs in Webkit.
And your privacy is not really respected. Google wants to know _everything_ you do in the browser.
And I think they won't make it easy to build a adblock feature. ( That is why so many bloggers and the online press love it so much. )
For me all this means that:
I will wait for a Linuxfork that respects my privacy and enables adblocking.
I love the UI and the technology, but I also like Firefox and it will soon get a much faster JS engine too.
Edited 2008-09-03 16:32 UTC