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Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web

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Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web

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Post by DougBTX »

river_styx wrote: post #17
tlrobinson wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Safari has had the "drag tab for a new window" feature for a few years, and Apple hasn't had any problems... yet. Of course I doubt Adobe would want to mess with Apple, or Google for that matter.

Indeed, many of these amazing new innovations that people are ascribing to Chrome have been there in Safari/Webkit for a while.

Just the way these things go - the same happened with features from Opera being introduced to a wider audience through Firefox. Answer: if you want credit for an idea, implement and get it in the hands of millions of people.

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Post by catch23 »

pxlpshr wrote: post #4
vaksel wrote: post #3

I think the main reason by Google with Chrome is to take Adblock Plus out of the equation. If they control the browser, they can disable the ability to turn off ads. But who knows, maybe they'll the people have that feature

that's an interesting theory... but in the greater realm of the internets, how many people really use adblock, and is it really making a dent in advertising (compared to the likes of click fraud & link farms)?

It's unlikely that adblock will make a dent in google's advertising revenues. A good chunk of their revenues comes from ppc (search advertising). As long as people use google as their search engine, google will always have their main source of revenue.

"Banner Ads" will die, but that's probably a good thing. There have been other forms of advertising that have taken ground already. If you use facebook and you look at the "feed" you'll know what I mean. Good advertisers will know how to promote their products without users even realizing they are being subject to 3rd party goods/brand promotion.

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Post by josefresco »

technoguyrob wrote: post #5

Woah! I had no idea about the "application" feature of Chrome! That is so simple, yet so ingenious! Try this: Go to Gmail, then when it's loaded, in the top right in Chrome go to Page -> Create App Shortcut and choose a location (say the Desktop). Then go to the location, and "open" the application. It's like an actual Windows app!

Sorry, not impressed. A desktop shortcut to Gmail with no address bar or buttons doesn't exactly 'wow' me. I still have to login, and I have enough screen real estate that I would prefer to have those buttons/toolbars available.

Why is this great? The lack of toolbars?

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Post by briansmith »

litewulf wrote: post #20
briansmith wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More and more people are turning to plugins that restrict and/or disable scripts and third-party content like AdBlock Plus and NoScript--not to block ads, but for security reasons. I think Google wants to fix the security problems in a different way so that their Javascript- and third-party-domain- based utilities can function.

By "more and more" do you mean your fellow technology-literates? I just want to point out that I've seen numbers for Linux desktop penetrations ~1%. I doubt that many people know (or care) what scripts are at all.

That is true. But, it won't be long before IT departments start putting everybody behind script- and ad- blocking proxies for security reasons. This kind of blocking will bubble up from hobbyists and down from corporate IT and could become mainstream as these two groups meet in the middle.

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Post by dotcoma »

jo wrote: post #14
dotcoma wrote: post #12

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totally disagree. the day will come very soon when you will be able to run heavy apps like Google Earth in Chrome - and we all know that you will NEVER be able to do that in Explorer. Now, maybe Google Earth is not enough to make people switch, but 1 Internet user in 5 is already using Firefox with no marketing budget and no branding (vs Google being the #1brand in the world) And if Google Earth is not enough, what a…

google earth has worked in internet explorer since May. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-earth-meet...

thanks for the correction.
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