Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Sat 1st Aug 2009 17:48 UTC
"Linux: If a lack of third-party plug-in support (i.e. Flash) kept you from trying out Chrome on your Linux system, then avoid no longer. The 'early developer version' now supports many plug-ins, and they seem to work pretty well. You'll need to add --enable-plugins to your Chrome shortcut's command line operation to get the 'buggy' plug-in support, but it seems worth the hassle, as YouTube videos are playing relatively stable and smooth. Google's updated their alpha-level Chrome builds to include the newest start page tweaks as well, and it's generally a browser worth checking out, even if a few standard settings and convenience items are still missing."
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That's the conventional wisdom of someone who reads OSNews, I'm sure. But...
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But if they had no alternative, I think it would be doable.
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But if they had no alternative, I think it would be doable.
Well, yeah. It would be doable for the Pope to go Protestant, as well. But there would be repercussions and consequences. I wonder how many of those techies who turned the masses on to FF in the first place would start recommending something else? (There are both philosophical and technical reasons to prefer Webkit.) I wonder how many of those little "Take Back the Web!" links to getfirefox.com would disappear and/or be replaced by something else?
Much of FF's popularity has come from their "David" image as they've gone up against Goliath. I doubt that their setting up house together would do much for Firefox's popularity.
Fortunately, the OSS web browser market is finally getting going. So it wouldn't be a complete catastrophe. I'd just hate to see us end up back in a one OSS browser/renderer market again because of short-sightedness, arrogance, and overconfidence on the part of Mozilla Corp.
Edit: I guess I should also note that my professional life gives me a little wider perspective than just reading OSNews. As is no doubt true of many people here. Try to keep that in mind.
Edited 2009-08-03 14:20 UTC
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2005-10-13
That's the conventional wisdom of someone who reads OSNews, I'm sure. But really, Mozilla has always been focused on the windows platform primarily. Mac support has come a very distant second, and they barely even acknowledge linux still exists. How many windows users are really that anti-microsoft? I'm sure any kind of deal like that would cause lots of anger, recriminations, and general chaos. But if they had no alternative, I think it would be doable.