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
#2Its kind of interesting to hear about how long-running the talks about Chrome have been. I think its easy to take a micro-scale view of browser development and see the weekly press releases that come one after another and declare that this feature is an answer to that feature and ignore the long development ramp-up time that each improvement required.
Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
#3I 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
Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
#4I 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)?
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#5Woah! 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!
Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
#6I 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
It's completely open source. It wouldn't be hard to fork it and add in ad blocking. Google controls their own specific branded instance of Chrome but that's all. Hardly the stuff conspiracy theories are made of, though.
Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
#7Woah! 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!
the tabs, buttons, and address bars fall away and the Web app looks pretty much like a desktop app. Welcome to the cloud era.
Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
#8Woah! 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!
Great feature. Unfortunately, Adobe have a patent (http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/5546528.html) on dragging tabs to create new windows. They filed suit against Macromedia over it in 2000 (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/2000...).
Hopefully Adobe will be good sports this time...
Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
#9I 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)?
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.
Re: Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
#10Woah! 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!
Woah! I had no idea about the "application" feature of Chrome! That is so simple, yet so ingenious!
It's a feature in the next version of Safari as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyctim/2568406483/
It's sorta funny because in the past people complained about sites hiding browser chrome and rejoiced when browsers let you disable that Javascript feature; now it's reversed and we're excited to be able to view sites without browser chrome.