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Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
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Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#22Once they include a way to password protect stored logins, I'll probably use it more heavily.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#23Chrome is a good app. I played around with it yesterday. Sad that they are doing it "open source". They should license it, then they could get the revenue they need to be a serious competitor to IE. As it is, nor matter how good technically Chrome is, it will be a curiousity. Without revenue from licensing you can't play with the big boys. "Open source"/free software sounds good in a college sociology paper, but sucks as a business model. It's like flying a 4-engine aeroplane with two engines off. It's stupid. But on the technical side, it is good, and so I'll probably use it. I just feel bad for google's shareholders. They could really be doing a lot better off.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#24I use Mac at work and Linux at home, so I'm SOL for the time being. Chrome looks nice, though, and I'll probably end up switching when they port to the platforms I use.
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#25'I always thought IE and Firefox could be slimmed down' Have you tried Opera? I use Windows and FreeBSD, so as Chrome isn't availble on FreeBSD yet I'll probably run Chrome on Windows and Opera on FreeBSD.
The main problem I have with Opera is that my first user experience was one of abject confusion ;)
The UI is really cluttered in terms of all the different bars and buttons that I didn't quite know what to do with.
Chrome just feels nice. There are some tabs, theres an address bar, and there is a back/forward and reload. I think there are other features too, I just don't see them ;)
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#26need a mac version first. then i'll see.
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#27Not until Chrome gets extensions/addons. I absolutely cannot live without ad blocking, better tab management, NoScript and my check-multiple-gmail-accounts addons.
It'll be interesting to see whether or not Google would allow ad-blocking on its own browser.
Talk about killing the golden goose.
Then again, they may decide the number of people who knew about and actually use ad block plugins is relatively small, so they may allow them.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#28Chrome is a good app. I played around with it yesterday. Sad that they are doing it "open source". They should license it, then they could get the revenue they need to be a serious competitor to IE. As it is, nor matter how good technically Chrome is, it will be a curiousity. Without revenue from licensing you can't play with the big boys. "Open source"/free software sounds good in a college sociology paper, but suck…
What Google is doing is commoditizing the browser in order to make the web more accessible - and most importantly more like an operating system by including a (supposedly) superior javascript engine that makes it possible to create real apps in a browser window.
The financial interest of Google is not to make money on the browser, but to change the game and move as many apps on to the Internet and away from the computer as possible. This is where their strength lies, and they know it.
In my opinion this is a genius and bold move to which Microsoft basically has no countermoves. If they play along and get better javascript performance in IE apps move to the web, if they don't IE will fall behind firefox and chrome. Either way Google wins.
They don't care about making money on the browser. They care about moving everything into the(ir) cloud.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#29Yes -- I'm already using chrome for my everyday browsing. The speed is just too good to ignore.
Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?
#30Not until Chrome gets extensions/addons. I absolutely cannot live without ad blocking, better tab management, NoScript and my check-multiple-gmail-accounts addons.
It'll be interesting to see whether or not Google would allow ad-blocking on its own browser. Talk about killing the golden goose. Then again, they may decide the number of people who knew about and actually use ad block plugins is relatively small, so they may allow them.
Even if Google doesn't, a person/group with sufficient time and skills can just fork the whole browser and add it. It's under a BSD license.
Personally, I'd rather see the porting finished first.