Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak

Dr Pete writes "Financial Times has an interesting piece about Lars Bak and Kasper Lund the authors of the V8 virtual machine in Google's Chrome browser. 'Chrome attracted more than 10 million users in its first 100 days. Although that's an impressive number, it still only translates into about 1 per cent of browser usage online. It will be a while before it can compete with Firefox, Internet Explorer and others. In December last year, Google announced that Chrome was now out of its development, or Beta, phase and is ready to be shipped as a pre-installed browser on some PCs. This could rapidly increase the number of users. Moreover, the European Commission's antitrust battle with Microsoft over, among other things, how its own browser, Internet Explorer, is integrated into its Windows operating system may give competitors such as Google a chance to claim ground.'" Interestingly enough Google Chrome is currently fighting it out with Safari as the #3 web browser on Slashdot.

Comments

I won't switch to Chrome

[Anonymous Coward]

until I can image zoom B's into DD's. Text only zoom is just not that helpful for my purposes.

Re:imature piece of code

[Architect_sasyr]

Ignoring the random plug for some site or whatever, my first thought was "Chrome? Ah this is the asshole whose given my users a forking web browser". As such, Chrome is banned from my networks due to my users obsession with 50+ tabs a day. Lucky for them they close Firefox over night or they'd be stuck with Lynx.