Just Browsing: My Wild Guesses, Speculation and Unfounded Opinions about Google Chrome

September is here, and I?m slipping out of a mild off-season hibernation after a relatively laidback summer (?relative? being the operative word when you?re coming off ten years of stressful startup life). In particular, this blog has been sorely neglected. I?m planning to ramp things up once again, and what better way to start than the announcement of Google Chrome which, if nothing else, heralds a new age of plenty for a browser-focused blog like this one. A Google browser has been rumored for as a long as there have been rumors. Well, not quite that long, but reckoned in internet years it?s been a near eternity since the first whisperings of a ?gBrowser?. Back in January I speculated that Gears had subsumed the role that a fully-fledged browser might have filled: Remember the rumored GBrowser? Well it looks like Google decided instead to build a stack of web application-focused services that run in a range of browsers using plugins or ActiveX. After all, why buy the cow when you can have the milk from all the cows for free? From where I?m sitting this was a very smart decision. Even Google doesn?t have the market power to impose a new browser brand on the world, so supporting third-party browsers is a reality that it has done well to embrace. Oops, I got that one wrong. view original article
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:44:38 +0200

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