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Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8
An anonymous reader writes "Google is apparently playing with a nifty integration of instant search inside of its Chrome browser. Typing in the URL bar will automatically bring up a search page, while URLs apparently can be completed much faster as well. It seems as if Google isn't running out of ideas for its browser anytime soon."
Batten the hatches, we're running negative karma! Bloat is creeping into all development, and it makes me mad. MS scarily enough seem to be the only developer fighting it (or, not getting exponentially worse at it, just creeping up in linear fashion). Most new Linux OSs are more bloated than Vista- even Slackware is falling in line just tossing together all the latest versions of stuff and coming across as a totally generic package in the process. The leanest, meanest, while still being full-featured and stable OS is... Windows 7. OpenOffice is so bloated that I just type stuff in WordPad or Notepad and format it at work. Firefox takes so long to scan just a handful of plugins that I don't load it at all unless I have to run a specific plugin, so I use Chrome. Now Chrome's going to start throwing in useless features because they're the hot new stuff, while basic features lag behind. Thanks, PC dev community, you're slowly convincing me that Microsoft and Closed Source are the way of the future.