Chrome

[nyuanshin]

Google's latest squeeze in the slow strangulation of Microsoft is something that's been on my software wishlist ever since the catchphrase "Web 2.0" started getting thrown around: a browser architecture that's designed on the principle that web apps really are individual apps and should be treated accordingly by the hardware, rather than having one

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[airstrip]

I don't think it needs a new term as I think it will be quietly phased out. Very few people I know still say "open your browser" or "on the browser window" but say "open Internet Explorer" or "in the window".

[ihuitl]

I tried Chrome and I enjoyed it...except for one fatal flaw.

Often, whenever I opened a new tab or clicked on something, the computer locked up for anywhere from three to ten seconds.

I'm not sure what caused it, but if the problem could be addressed I would probably give Chrome another shot.

As far as plugins, the ones I have on Firefox that really would want for Chrome are the Java script blocker, and the function that minimizes the browser to the system tray.

[ihuitl]

EDIT: apparently Chrome eats up memory because each tab or application is a new instance of the browser. Maybe if I upgrade my RAM I will be able to use it more effectively, although with a laptop that is only a year old and with 1 GB of RAM, you would think I wouldn't have these issues yet. -__-;

(I like parenthesis)

[steveniles]

I don't think Chrome is so much about getting a new browser into the mix (IE, FF, Safari, Opera, Konqueror, etc) of which there are many (too many if you're a web developer (However I think it uses the same render agent as Safari)). I think it's about getting new browser ideas into the mix. If Google had come out and said "We should all rethink some of the assumptions we make about browsers and the web" people would say "Yeah!" and go back to what they were doing (This probably has already happened, I forget...). But Google puts out a whole new shiny browser, it gets talked about (and here we are

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[steveniles]

(Needless to say, I not only downloaded it the moment it was released, but also listened to the press conference live while at work)

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[steveniles]

forget that whole "by next week" thing

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[ihuitl]

Good comic. It's my perspective on alot of computing in general.

[steveniles]

Personally, I've no problem with the term "browser" or "web browser" as I think it pretty simply describes the usual process we use it for. "Gateway" is already a networking tech term, which could just confuse a lot of conversations.

I think we should be working at getting rid of terms like "blogosphere" and one of my personal anti-favorites: "Web 2.0", which if anything should apply to IPv6, which would still be grossly wrong (The Web != The Internet)

But that's just me :)

[nyuanshin]

Yeah, "Web 2.0" was always kinda goofy. So far as I could tell, at worst it meant "yay, Javascript is actually useful now" and at best it meant "yay, people are actually starting to use the internet properly as a medium".

Which pertains to why I disagree about "browser" -- it describes a very passive activity when a lot of web-based stuff is now much more interactive.

[queueball]

Paul Graham tickles my happy place

[nyuanshin]

There's always hype that needs sifting, and I'm inclined to agree with steveniles that this was calculated more for zeitgeist effect than as an attempt to seriously take browser market share. It's no revolution, just a healthy nudge.