Introducing Chrome for Android • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by _ea1k » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 5:57 PM UTC

steve-howard wrote: post #8

benologist wrote: post #3

Douche move making it require Ice Cream Sandwich while they don't require telcos to ship any of us upgrades.

If Samsung didn't lock down the bootloader so fucking tight on my $500 phone I wouldn't have to care what the telco does.

Which Samsung Android device has a locked bootloader?

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by adamrights » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

Firefox for android unfortunately started out real slow...might be a good move for Google. Time to go to xda-developers and see if it'll be on your phone.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

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Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by sunsu » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

All I want to know is how long till it replaces the current implementation of WebView in the Android SDK.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by wslh » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

voidfiles wrote: post #7

Wow, if they include extensions. This could be huge.

Yes, having extensions in a mobile browser is the next step to quick personalization beyond native applications.

I bet that web augmentation on mobiles can be really huge.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by trotsky » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

Decoupling the browser from the OS is one of the best things that could happen for android security going forward. While it won't help people who can't get upgrades to ICS, at least it will solve the future problems of people who get stuck on 4.x while their OS browser slowly becomes more and more exploitable. I have one phone that is still on 2.2 - it is trivially easy to own the phone with a little bit of javascript on any web page.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by pvarangot » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

SandB0x wrote: post #6

So what have we been using up till now on Android? Is this just a re-branding and overhaul of the Android WebKit browser?

We've been user "Browser", I hope one advantage of using Chrome would be bookmark sync with my desktop browser. "Browser" doesn't even have folders for it's bookmarks.

Anyway, my phone only runs Android 2.3 so it seems I'll have to wait till my next upgrade to avoid using hacked up apps to sync my bookmarks.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by loudmax » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:00 PM UTC

I had been wondering whether Google would port Chrome to Android, or they would port Dalvik to Chrome. I'm still not ruling out the latter option.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by ditoa » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:03 PM UTC

pvarangot wrote: post #17

SandB0x wrote: post #6

So what have we been using up till now on Android? Is this just a re-branding and overhaul of the Android WebKit browser?

We've been user "Browser", I hope one advantage of using Chrome would be bookmark sync with my desktop browser. "Browser" doesn't even have folders for it's bookmarks. Anyway, my phone only runs Android 2.3 so it seems I'll have to wait till my next upgrade to avoid using hacked up apps to sync my bookmarks.

"Browser" on Android 4 syncs with Chrome already (and has folder support).

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by dangrossman » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 6:03 PM UTC

With Android 4.0 at 1% market share, it'll be a long time before most people can even try this.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...