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In-Game Web Browser Round-Up

Posted by timothy on from the not-complete-until-it-includes-one dept.

theodp writes "CNET takes a look at Web browsers you can run inside of the latest video games, offering mini-reviews of PlayXpert, Steam, Rogue, and Xfire. Why run these instead of your standard browser? Well, these browsers run lean and mean, play nice with full-screen apps, provide hot keys that can make them appear or disappear in an instant, and offer transparency so you can continue to play a game in full screen while chatting, reading e-mail or looking up cheat codes. So how much longer before we see a variation of this on our real-world car windshields?"

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  1. Needs Adblock by ticklemeozmo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As with most geeks, no browser will get our full attention until it gets adblock.

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  2. I seldom alt-tab by sw155kn1f3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Usually I have all my chat windows etc open on second monitor where I can see them. Second old 17" LCD does the trick.

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  3. Re:On windshields? by geminidomino · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So how much longer before we see a variation of this on our real-world car windshields?
    3000kg at 100km/h is a force to be respected.

    3000kg * 28 m/s isn't a force, it's a momentum. ;)

    Now, when you hit something that makes you stop in .5 seconds...

    3000kg * -56 m/s^2 = -168000 N Now THAT'S a force to be respected. *G*