Google bringing out own browser !!!

[Rex84]

They need to make Chrome work with Mac before they can be competitive.

 

[bdiego]

Quote from QQQShort:

Please mark me down as being "no one".

Chrome handles most of my browsing tasks, because it is much faster than Firefox on my machine.

Me too. It's worth noting I was using Firefox back when it was at 1% penetration too.

I use four browsers and Chrome is still #2 after Firefox. Pros: It blows Firefox away in speed and resources, it's not even close. It actually works (unlike IE and sometimes Firefox). Cons: Some basic interface issues, it lacks some perks of Firefox, and the wrong features are turned on by default (just like IE).

Bottom line, one of three things will happen. Chrome will improve its interface to add the good points of Firefox and become #1, or Firefox will fix all the damn hangups and resource hogging and gain even more market, or Chrome is going to gain but reach a general equilibrium market share (most likely)

 

[Cutten]

I would never use any google product after finding out their privacy policies.

 

[vv111y]

Quote from Cutten:

I would never use any google product after finding out their privacy policies.

Which policies in particular? I didn't see anything obviously bad, but then IANAL, so maybe I'm missing something.

 

[achilles28]

Quote from Cutten:

I would never use any google product after finding out their privacy policies.

Yep.

Google is basically the Corporate Arm of the NSA.

Every shred of user behavior is tracked, stored, analyzed and sold or fed to Government.

POS Company.

 

[MrktObserver4u]

Its a Mozilla derivative - they didn't build it. And the Mozilla team is right across the street from them.

This is not anything to get excited about, really. You would be better off using Opera.

 

[bdiego]

Quote from Cutten:

I would never use any google product after finding out their privacy policies.

So you're running on Linux? Don't tell me you're on a PC or Mac.

Google doesn't even make half the products they own. They usually buy them out. I take it you no longer use youtube now that it's owned by google?

 

[stock777]

To the 2 out of 50,000 that like chrome vs firefox

1) You don't actually use firefox, if you did, you would never switch. Chrome has nothing, no plug ins, add ons, no features, nothing.

I guarantee it fails.

 

[stock777]

Quote from Rex84:

They need to make Chrome work with Mac before they can be competitive.

The Mac is not even a legitimate computer, why should they?

 

[vv111y]

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The Mac is not even a legitimate computer, why should they?

oh ho ho! thems fighting words

no I don't have a mac, but the OS is solid.
It's more than legitimate, it's just too pricey for the hardware you get.

ok, and for chrome.
Yes I love FF, but tricking it out like I did has made it bloated and it behaves badly.
With chrome I have repeatedly shut down shockwave and kept right on going. With FF it would just hang and I'd have to close and reopen the browser - it was getting bad.

What they *need* to do is put those together - get chromes code under the hood for handling tabs/processes, rendering - while having FF code for beefing up the UI - addons, extensions, etc.