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Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome
tandiond writes to tell us that in a recent blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his thoughts on Google's new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla. "It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here — their business is the web, and they've got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better. Chrome will be a browser optimized for the things that they see as important, and it'll be interesting to see how it evolves." Mozilla's Europe president, Tristan Nitot also chimed in during an interview with PCPro, stating that they don't view this as a direct attack on Firefox, even if it did catch them by surprise. "I'll take another example: just before Microsoft launched Vista, it invited us [to work with it] so that Firefox works better on Windows Vista. Because for it, Firefox being a top-tier application that was very successful - we now have 200 million users around the world - it could not afford to have Firefox run slowly on Vista. Therefore, it helped us improve Firefox for Vista. That's just the same for Google. It wants Firefox to perform well with its applications, that's for sure. Indeed, it even wants IE to perform well with Gmail and the rest. It's just that it has very limited control over this. That's why Google's been frustrated and it is launching this Chrome browser."
Troll go home. We don't need another anonymous coward making unfounded statements about things that he poorly understands (including poor phonetic substitutes for French phrases whose meaning is likely also beyond his comprehension).
Your brain is not a computer.
Stop panicking, Chrome uses Webkit. It's basically just a skin for Safari, like Konquerer.
Isn't their tracking currently based on cookies? A browser that calls home (or implements some sort of fingerprinting technology) could link cookies from one session to the next.
And there you have it. Google dropped their bombshell. Chrome. This is going to send shockwaves throughout the Internet.
And when you go to check it out:
MS-Windows only??? WTF??!?!!
What a perfect way to show openness, platform independence, support for standards, support for Open Systems principles and designs, and independence from Microsoft control.
Yes, we all know it will be "coming soon" for Linux and MacOS, but that is no excuse. If ever there were an important moment to make sure of a simultaneous, multiplatform release, THIS WOULD BE IT. *YOU BLEW IT GOOGLE* Thanks for sending such a positive message.
I'm just glad that another for-profit company has finally entered the mix. Sure, it will hurt and maybe even kill Mozilla, but that's a small price to pay to hurt MS with some real competition for once.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I'm going to be "that guy," sorry, but the browser's name is "Firefox." Only one capital F. For somebody who's been using it exclusively for about 2 years, you've done a great job of never looking at the browser's actual name.
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