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How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by venomsnake »

deepak-kumar wrote: post #12

I used to be a Firefox fan but not anymore, I made chrome my default browser and I am highly satisfied. Now I use FF just to test while developing things. I love lightness of chrome and have shifted all dev related work to chrome. I wont be surprised if chrome becomes the first choice all the developers in next couple of years.

On a side note the only problem i had with chrome is that you cannot disable disk cache. The problem was easily solved with junctions to /Device/Null for the Cache and MediaCache folder.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by Shooti »

millstone wrote: post #5

> Both Packaged Apps and Native Client apps work on any computer that has the Chrome browser installed. Hmm. On my Mid 2011 MacBook Air, I searched for the referenced "Cracking Sands Racing" game on the Chrome Web Store, but found no results. I clicked on the link from the article, and am told "This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled." I guess they don't work on any computer…

They're in the process of reorganizing the store to do exactly that. Preview is available on Dev/Canary channels: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/05/preview-new-chrome-packaged...

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by hollerith »

pyoung wrote: post #13
kijin wrote: post #4

Or rather, how Google plans to rule the consumer computing world. It's been a while since the average Facebook addict really needed a computer anyway, they can all throw their laptops away and switch full-time to phones and tablets and I won't care. But businesses and professionals have different needs. I don't see web apps and NaCl apps replacing Office suites, IDEs, or 3D graphic design tools anytime in the next de…

I think there is going to be a big departure in what developers want, and what consumers want. For the most part, over the last 10 years, those two groups were largely using the same computers and OS's, but that has already changed, and will continue to do so. If Google can get their platform in front a ton of people, the developers will most likely follow (although they maybe using different machines than the consum…

>On a random side note, just picked up a Samsung Chromebook.

Which one: the one with the ARM (the Series 3) or the one with the Celeron (the Series 5)?

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by robocat »

venomsnake wrote: post #21
deepak-kumar wrote: post #12

I used to be a Firefox fan but not anymore, I made chrome my default browser and I am highly satisfied. Now I use FF just to test while developing things. I love lightness of chrome and have shifted all dev related work to chrome. I wont be surprised if chrome becomes the first choice all the developers in next couple of years.

On a side note the only problem i had with chrome is that you cannot disable disk cache. The problem was easily solved with junctions to /Device/Null for the Cache and MediaCache folder.

Not sure if this is valid but:

User Bapabooiee:

Well, you guys are in luck (BTW, great work-around, Xenofon), since Chrome now has two startup switches that you can use:

--disk-cache-dir and --disk-cache-size

Simply close Chrome, right-click your Chrome shortcut, click Properties, and then in the field labeled "Target:", make it look something like this:

"...chrome.exe" --disk-cache-dir="CACHE_DIR" --disk-cache-size=N

Where 'CACHE_DIR' is the new cache location, and 'N' is the cache size limit, in bytes.

Use whichever switch you need, or both. Keep in mind, however, that these features may not be completely stable yet. But you probably shouldn't have any problem with using them.

And to anyone who's interested, I caught gander of the existence of these switches directly from a source code file for Chrome. See here:

http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_s...

Hope this helps!

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by k__ »

claudius wrote: post #9
rogerchucker wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Difference: IE was ugly and IE experience was ugly.

Chrome (okay, I only looked at Chromium) is ugly, has basically no way to adapt it to one’s needs, runs out of RAM quickly, is slow and needs updating all the time. Not really a difference to IE.

I find it interesting that there are still people out there who think Chrome is ugly.

Firefox and Internet Explorer have all bad tab and/or adressbar placement.

Or do you just find any browser ugly by definition?

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by 7952 »

kijin wrote: post #4

Or rather, how Google plans to rule the consumer computing world. It's been a while since the average Facebook addict really needed a computer anyway, they can all throw their laptops away and switch full-time to phones and tablets and I won't care. But businesses and professionals have different needs. I don't see web apps and NaCl apps replacing Office suites, IDEs, or 3D graphic design tools anytime in the next de…

A lot of businesses tend to be very file/folder focused. There are difficulties in creating browser based line of business apps that interact with the file system. They need servers and sysadmin support which is against the whole ethos of a user driven ecosystem.

An OAuth secured http api that wrapped basic file system commands and gave some kind of indexing and file level hashing would make a whole set of apps much easier to develop.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by wslh »

jlgreco wrote: post #16

I don't think I could disagree with the author more, and I am coming from the perspective of someone who also bought a pixel. (Actually we agree there, it is the best put together machine I've ever used... more on that later.) I'm not running ChromeOS on my pixel right now. I tried it for a weekend, it wasn't my cup of tea, and I slapped Debian onto it instead. No big surprise there, I have different needs from most…

I agree that ChromeOS as a base operating system is difficult to imagine but I think that the new rich GUI is moving towards HTML (beyond its use for browsing). Flash, Silverlight, and WPF will be replaceable very soon. Metro has a similar goal but less "standard".

I also prefer to have the opportunity to use the browser engine as a rich GUI but develop in any programming language (like Python or C#). It seems like this is not the Google vision because there is not an official Google's WebKit COM bindings for Windows while Apple has a good Javascript/Objective-C integration.

Re: How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome

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Post by nivla »

rogerchucker wrote: post #6
pjmlp wrote: post #2

Good luck. There was a company in Redmond trying to do the same with IE.

Difference: IE was ugly and IE experience was ugly.

Neither IE nor the IE experience was ugly for that time, the time when they decided to introduce ActiveX. Infact, it was the hip browser. I used to remember being on Netscape (my fav/default browser) and unable to browse most modern sites as they were designed specifically for IE, similar to how you now come around those "works only on chrome/webkit" sites.
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