Everyone’s Chrome
IMHO, Chrome isn’t any better apart from UI tweaks & V8 JS engine. Separate process per tab is a part of IE8 too. But the total memory used is real BIG. V8 is opensource, if Mozilla wants it, they can pick it. Infact, Firefox 3.1 has a better JS engine than the V8.
Google has opensourced their vector graphics library called Skia. Wondering who would use, when everyone is going with Cairo?
GOOG has entered a mature market like they did with Android. It amuses you becos it is brand_new. Firefox has a big sense of community. Their extensions such as AdBlock Plus is a real plus, which Google in principle, shudn’t support. I guess, Chrome’ll eat up IE’s market share in the long run. Loyal Firefox users wud fallback.
Chrome is opensource & still not available on Linux? What a pity? It is a little nuisance. Better, ignore it.
I believe, Google uses “Opensource” strategy while entering mature markets & when its products are not all that great. It makes all techies “feel” good & embarks ease of acceptance & adoption. GReader is not opensource. Picassa is not. That’s because they are pretty “featuristic” among the comparable ones. Google’s contributions to opensource with GSoC is commendable thou’.
11th hr inclusions:
- Labnol has an interesting post about the evolution of Chrome’s Logo.
- Impressed with Chrome, but wanna to stay with Firefox? Here is how to make Firefox close enough to Chrome.
Update #0: Contrary to what I said about Google, I found this.
Sami said,
September 9, 2008 at 8:39 am
Good info ranjhith. Sema research ponga. Thanks for the firefox plugin.
Chrome is good but still I go with firefox 3( and i am typing this from IE 7 :D )
Sujai said,
September 10, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I'm also waiting for upgrade to the TraceMonkey rendering engine. Weather tracemonkey is better of V8 ,needs to be seen.Lets not conclude on that yet.
What remains to be seen is if Google manages to lure users use C* as their desktop as some pundits predict. IMHO, iGoogle was on similar lines but never caught up. I still like my apps on my PC .
ranjhith said,
September 13, 2008 at 8:30 am
@Sami
வாங்க வாங்க. Thankz & keep things with FF.
@Sujai
Unless you are a JS Junkie, you'll not realize the speed diff btw FF & Chrome.
> I still like my apps on my PC .
How abt apps that masquerade as native, but does HTTP GETs in the background? :) You'll never know, until your network connection gets snapped.