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Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by dzjkb »

lmm wrote: post #9
firefoxd wrote: post #6

I must be using web browsers completely wrong. Like browsing a page isn't a problem for me. I can do it at the speed of my needs. I'm having a hard time understanding why I will tell gemini to create an account on some website for me or send an email. Those are usually just a tab away. That's why I feel like I'm missing something here.

Maybe you're only using well-designed sites? Try making a booking with a Chinese airline and you'll quickly wish for an assistant to delegate it all to.

funny you say that, I was literally just booking a flight with air china yesterday and the UX was 10x better than the average wizzair/ryanair experience - a clear, readable UI (with a great table comparison of prices +-3 days from the selected dates), no ads, no random services getting pushed in your face, no booking tabs automatically opening in the background

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by ed_mercer »

> We’re also bringing the creative power of Nano Banana directly into Chrome, allowing you to transform images on the fly without needing to download and re-upload images or open another tab.

Are there really people who are like "Man, if only I could this straight in Chrome" ? Is this something worth bloating a browser (further) with?

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by slfreference »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #4
ares623 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Head to head” doing a lot of heavy lifting. How much market share does Atlas have I wonder.

I actually think it has already been abandoned after very little adoption.

dont spread yourself too thin;or else river will dry; pick your battles.

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by sssilver »

ed_mercer wrote: post #32

> We’re also bringing the creative power of Nano Banana directly into Chrome, allowing you to transform images on the fly without needing to download and re-upload images or open another tab. Are there really people who are like "Man, if only I could this straight in Chrome" ? Is this something worth bloating a browser (further) with?

I think Google PMs would respond by saying that nobody in 2007 was like "Man, if only I could get rid of the physical keyboard on my smartphone".

You know, the whole "faster horse" argument.

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by stingraycharles »

hackyhacky wrote: post #5

Serious question, not snark: Does anyone actually want this? I honestly can't imagine a use for these features even among people tech savvy enough to understand them.

I like having AI in my browser, I use Claude quite a bit.

Examples: using my budgeting app directly to figure out why some forecasting event went wrong, or helping me correlate SOC2 tickets with GitHub pull requests and flagging all that are older than $date.

It’s surprisingly convenient for a narrow set of tasks.

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by gergo_b »

terhechte wrote: post #29
hackyhacky wrote: post #5

Serious question, not snark: Does anyone actually want this? I honestly can't imagine a use for these features even among people tech savvy enough to understand them.

I like doing side projects, I don't like wasting a day of work potential on any of these web apps: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Appstore Connect, Google's Android App Store, RevenueCat, Stripe, etc I dread having to log in to these systems and waste hours achieving the simplest tasks. This is what I'm using Claude for. E.g. I log in to AppStore connect, tell it what I need (3 subscription tiers), it will do all the clic…

Could you detail this a bit please

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by throwaway2056 »

stingraycharles wrote: post #37
omnifischer wrote: post #25

I wish this executive (author of that post) https://xcancel.com/laparisa?lang=en will show their browser in REAL LIFE everyday use. Really do they use it?

Looks like they may be using it to write their tweets?

In other words... general people don't need it.

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Post by MrAlex94 »

Am I being too cynical, or does anyone else envision a future where you ask Chrome to buy you something, anything, online and instead of it actually buying you the “best” item, you end up with items it “prefers” where Google make money from suggestions and/or completion of sale?

I know it calls out that there’ll need to be user confirmation before the final purchase, but if you’re already not expending the effort to find the product or service yourself, are you really going to sit and research what it’s given you? If you are, then what’s the point of using the agent?

Just seems like the next evolution in Google’s ad revenue generation.

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