Linked by The Bitland Prince on Tue 9th Sep 2008 17:50 UTC
When Google released its new (and first) browser a few days ago (Chrome), many praised that move or welcomed this new player into the arena, but many others simply were a bit surprised and wondered if a new browser was really needed when this market already features IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror and a plethora of smaller ones. While IE is still leader, those who aren't satisfied with it have a good choice of alternatives, especially in Firefox and Opera. So fasten your seat belt to join me in a ride which will attempt to explain why this browser war could be a threat to Google's very foundation and why Chrome is maybe the most important move Google could have done to protect itself.
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2008-03-17
If I understand the crux of the argument in this article is that google released chrome to protect itself by encouraging developers to use html and js...
They could have waited for mozilla's new js engine (which is already in FF 3.1 alphas) which supposedly is even speedier than v8, this would have saved them a whole load of effort and would have done the same thing (at least if following the rationale of this article)