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.
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