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Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 42 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new developer tools. Chrome 42 offers two new APIs (Push API and Notifications API) that together allow sites to send notifications to their users even after the given page is closed. While this can be quite an intrusive feature for a browser, Google promises the users have to first grant explicit permission before they receive such a message.
The web was perfectly fine until the mid-2000s, when the San Francisco crowd got their hands all over it. It has been all down hill since then.
I'd like to quote from a famous song, "We Built This City", by artists Jefferson Starship. This song captures the essence of what is wrong with the web today.
That sums up exactly what's wrong with Chrome, Firefox, and the web of today. When I look at Firefox or Chrome, I don't recognize their UIs any longer. They are difficult to use for anyone who isn't a rotten hipster. When I use Firefox and Chrome, I don't "recognize their face".
Like this submission shows perfectly, both Chrome and Firefox are "knee deep in the hoopla". They're all about buzzwords like "push notifications" these days.
Firefox is very clearly "sinking in its fight", with the "too many runaways" referring to the victims who have had to flee it and the awful changes that Mozilla has victimized the Firefox user community with.
It's getting to the point where I don't even want to use the web any more. I just want to do dances like the mambo, or even listen to the radio.
That perfectly describes the games we see with Google, Mozilla, Opera and even Microsoft. The web today is all about corporate shenanigans. Just look at all of the talk recently about Microsoft and IE and Spartan and of that jazz. They're all playing "corporation games", indeed!
While some of us just want to dance with the web like we used to, before it all went to hell, we have these browser vendors telling us that we need these push notifications and advertisements. They have written us off of the (web) page!
As normal people wanting to browse the web, we have lost the beat, thanks to the choke hold put on us by the browser vendors these days. It's all about the money, and anything having to do with the web that isn't about the money swiftly gets the wrecking ball.
The web was once the greatest creation that humankind had ever managed to build. But as quickly as it arose, it was torn down by greed, avarice, and shitty browser user interfaces.
And as those great musicians sang:
That's what we need to remember. We can't ever forget it.
I use SeaMonkey which is the descendent of the old Mozilla suite.
Its got all the same web engine stuff as Firefox does but it doesn't have the crappy UI or some of the other "unwanted" crap from Firefox.