It all depends on how MS release it, if it is a stand alone product then it will not hurt the other commercial security companies too much but if it is pushed as a Windows Update or comes pre installed on Windows 7 then it will.
This reminds me of collage in the late nineties, they had a new shiny stereolithography machine, I remember we would nerviously submit a model to the queue at the end of the day a hope and pray that it would come out ok the following morning. Due to the cost of running the machine they didn't exactly like us printing stuff for fun.
I totally agree that there is nothing wrong with Gecko, but when it comes down to it, the fewer rendering engines there are the fewer quirks there are to deal with.
Chrome is going to eat into the IE market share more than the FF market share, all those people who have never even heard of FF now have this sitting under their noses: "New! Download Chrome (BETA) - the new browser from Google".
The mobile browser market share of WebKit based browsers is also on the rise so if FF and Chrome were both using WebKit it would make life easier for developers and also help to reduce the IE market share.
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It all depends on how MS release it, if it is a stand alone product then it will not hurt the other commercial security companies too much but if it is pushed as a Windows Update or comes pre installed on Windows 7 then it will.
This one is quite good too: http://www.radsoftware.com.au/regexdesigner/
It has been getting hammered for the last 5-6 hours, there is plenty of interest in it so far.
This reminds me of collage in the late nineties, they had a new shiny stereolithography machine, I remember we would nerviously submit a model to the queue at the end of the day a hope and pray that it would come out ok the following morning.
Due to the cost of running the machine they didn't exactly like us printing stuff for fun.
I'm looking forward to it, I just rebuilt my primary PC and have held back on installing GIMP hoping the new version would be released soon.
You can say what image editor you are using at: http://www.whaturunning.com/The-Best-Image-Photo-Editing-Software.htm
I totally agree that there is nothing wrong with Gecko, but when it comes down to it, the fewer rendering engines there are the fewer quirks there are to deal with. Chrome is going to eat into the IE market share more than the FF market share, all those people who have never even heard of FF now have this sitting under their noses: "New! Download Chrome (BETA) - the new browser from Google". The mobile browser market share of WebKit based browsers is also on the rise so if FF and Chrome were both using WebKit it would make life easier for developers and also help to reduce the IE market share.
I would love to see Firefox move to WebKit, it would certainly make life easier for web developers.
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