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(to-be-read in reverse-chronicle order)

3 September 2008

Positive review: SaigonNezumi, Google Chrome - What a browser should be -> Simple

A nice coverage: Chip 2.0, Review after the first day launching Chrome

Not-so-positive review: Google Chrome, it’s not worth the Buzz

Why Google Chrome is not only a cost-saving basket

On Finance’s side: GOOG’s Chrome is all about Wall Street.

TaiTran’s comment: Chrome is only only a cost-saving basket, but a full house for wealth for Google.

1. OK, the money that Google is saving as depicted in Zdnet’s article is the kitchen.
2. Chrome knows all your web activities. Google will sell smarter ads and thus their revenue from ads will increase. This is the bedroom.
3. Chrome is the O/S for the web
   Recall: what’s the 2 most successful properties of Microsoft? Windows and Office
   Has Google got Office? Absolutely. Now Chrome is Google’s Operating System.
   This is the living room.
4. Chrome being open-source will attract the communities (many from Mozilla) who will work for Chrome (more accurately, GOOG) for credit rather than wages. This is the bath room.
5. Chrome will be the web platform on which many applications and SaaS will base on: free dependency is never a free lunch. This is the dining room.
6. Chrome being very light will integrate deeply with Android for penetrating into Mobile market. This is the garden.

In short, all about making money in the long run, given that Chrome will succeed. How successful do you think Chrome will be?

Testing Chrome

1. Is faster than FF3
2. Failed to import bookmarks from my FF3
3. Offers more free space by pushing the tab bar to the very top
4. Doesn’t destroy the layout when zoom in. This is both good and bad.
5. Doesn’t display XML correctly
6. Supports built-in 48 languages
7. Connects to Google services at full speed
8. Uses same web standard with Firefox
9. Provides context-sensitive status bar
10. No RSS auto-detectio
11. No support for Quick Time
12. AdBlock will be highly political
13. Smart start page: recently visited sites
14. Flickr “Web upload” does not work
15. The address bar is a search bar
16. Facebook and Zoho Javascript errors
    

Chrome About Pages

1 September 2008

Google’s official announcement: we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book

Tad was skeptical with 7 reasons why Chrome is a bad idea

Technologizer raised 10 questions

Agglom scanned the catoon

Google Blogoscoped threw the first bomb

4 Responses to “Google Chrome - the Web browser saga continues”

1. Urko Masse says:

   September 3, 2008 at 9:10 pm

   Google would lose a lot of support from the community of Firefox developers if they stop contributing to Mozilla. That is a very bad way to encourage developers to work on Chrome. I think they would be foolish to do it.

   The second point is a major breach in Privacy. It will cause a scandal, much bigger than their Gmail ads on the side of your messages. Google Chrome will never “phone home”.

   Google is trying to encourage web developers to leave Internet Explorer out, or at least IE 5, 5.5, 6.0, and work on websites that are fully standards compliant. Why? To make Android browse websites better, to improve its adoption. To do that, they need to seriously decrease the market share of IE. Right now it is a very serious concern, and a real threat to the adoption of Android.

   Improving the usability of their web applications is also a major goal, to make them a viable alternative to traditional desktop applications. Gears was NOT being downloaded and installed as much as Google had hoped. Chrome has it built-in. This is MAJOR! A total change of the playing field. If a browser backed by Google, that is so fast and so stable, becomes popular, so does Gears. And that brings the web to your desktop right now. Sharpen your web development skills, because that could be all you need very soon to develop a truly cross-platform application. Or actually: not cross-platform at all: it runs on Chrome (or Firefox+Gears).

   I am curious to see if Firefox will drop Rhino and take V8. They can if they want.
2. Tai says:

   September 3, 2008 at 9:20 pm

   
3. Kevin Miller, Jr.'s, SaigonNezumi.com | Google Chrome - What a browser should be -> Simple says:

   September 3, 2008 at 10:20 pm

   [...] popular Vietnamese tech blogs, E-Learner 2.0.vi and Technology as an Innovator,  posted about the new Google Chrome browser still in beta in the last couple of days.  The [...]
4. Steve says:

   September 4, 2008 at 9:37 am

   Chrome is a great browser, but I’m not a sold person at this point. Love the most recent sites visited feature; they need to keep on that path for other features.

   Until the browser has a dedicated developer and user audience at Firefox, I will consider.

   My only wish at this point is if Microsoft decides to start shipping Chrome with Windows!