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Hello,

U have some good points, but those are not really reasons to not use the google browser. We don’t even know yet how its going to be, as its never been released yet.

1, only time will tell.
2, well i guess u need u need to read the term of usage really good than.
3, google comes with a great ad blocker, if a web page has ads it would stay in that tab. I don’t see any reason why google would turn this in to a ad feed machine.
4, google browser has been build on the webkit engine, so i highly doubt it will break the web of gives us another browser to debug for.. but than again. If u don’t like debugging why on earth do people become a developer…

5, webkit is a proven platform and follows the standards…
6, firefox and google’s browser is like comparing firefox with safari…
7, nobody gets forced to use the google browser. If u dont like google use a other?

I’ll more than happy to give this baby a spin tomorrow

I think that Google Chrome is going to shuffle the deck of web browsing, looking at the comic seems to provide really interesting features. I also think that Google Chrome is about to eat market share more form FIrefox than for other borwser.
As a user I’m hoping that feature introduced by Google Chrome are going to be implemented in other browser, but I don’t think I’m going to be a Google Chrome user mostly because of privacy concerns.

Agree with wisher. IE wont suffer FireFox will. Google is making a very selfish decision and I hope they fail in their efforts. The time and money would be better spent in support of webKit or Gecko engines

I believe the ethics and practices of a company should dictate society’s trust in them. Large corporations are not inherently evil, and neither is a monopoly. The corporation has gotten a bad reputation because the last ten years or so the media has focused on ousting those who abuse it. If you follow Google’s track record, they are are mindful of community, their employees, and how to enhance and improve the way we work online with every new product. Your paranoia is justified by the trends of other companies, but you can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and blanket all corporations with your paranoia or else you’ll simply have a miserable end user experience, and one that isn’t really open minded. I have my own skeptical thoughts about Chrome, but admittedly they’re more about the new memory management algorithms that are designed to make Chrome more efficient than other browsers.

There’s something deeper to learn about Google from this product than the initial reaction to the product features, however. Ignore for a moment the observations about Google leapfrogging their competitors with more user value and a new feature or two. Or Google diversifying away from search into other applications; they’ve been doing that for a while. Or the privacy red herring.

No, the story is about seemingly incremental features that are actually massively expensive for others to match, and the platform that Google is building which makes it cheaper and easier for them to develop and run web-scale applications than anyone else.

Pretty evil stuff :-)

onreact, in response to what you said to v1 (hope this doesn’t come across as hostile):
1. Very correct, google wants to own the web
2. You can opt out of google double click cookies at any time: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html – same goes for yahoo also
3. Its based on webkit so Id expect someone will come along with an extension to do this sooner or later to block ads.
4/5. Safari (aka webkit) has been available for windows for a long time (since June ‘07). Google is based off of webkit so you can expect them to follow standards pretty closlely.
6. Last week google signed a contract with the mozilla foundation to continue support into 2011.
7. No one is forced to use googles products – also chrome gives you the option of changing what search engine you use when you run it the first time.

Also its available for download right now: http://www.google.com/chrome

It was only a matter of time before Google launched a web browser. It is very hard to keep track of all the business that Google buys but you can bet that the web browser is only the beginning. Anyone want to take a guess on when we will see an OS from Google?

I think you’re right about all 7 points, but I’m still going to download it and enjoy the heck out of it!

Warning: incoming ranting.

1. we have 1 monopoly… at least with 2 big competitors we’re in a better situation then with just a single monopoly. The more vendors that enter this fray, the better. It’s unlikely that they’ll completely obliterate everyone.
2. Privacy: If you’re willing to sacrifice your privacy to use this browser, that’s your choice. Some users will not mind this issue. You might however but you can choose not to use an alternate browser. Who’s being forced?
3. Ads: So you’re advocating that people should STEAL a service from websites? Many websites provide a free service, IF you agree to view/display their advertising. Yeah, great one there… let’s promote destroying free services revenue streams so less websites make money or lose the ability to provide such free services at all.
4. Web Development: Web Developers have a difficult enough job to fix websites for the 4 most used existing browsers now IE7, IE6, Firefox, Opera. Do you think a Google browser and IE8 will make it easier? Currently building websites often takes up less time already than tweaking them for different browsers. Don’t even start with “information should be free” like I’ve heard from other areas… when hosting content and bandwidth are free… when the time people spend, collating, collecting, building and distributing are all free… when living itself is free… maybe then.
5. Web Standards: There are already competing standards and interpretations, yes. Recently there’ve been some interesting contests on who can implement the most of standards, who can implement them better, who can make them render faster and so on. Hopefully with another competitor we can see this trend continue. It’s worth noting that it uses the webKit rendering engine … which safari already uses. Nothing new to see here.
6. Firefox: They’ve contributed more to open source then either you I could ever hope to, how much must they continue to give as a corporation? Hard to criticise them when you see how much they’ve put into moz’ foundation and what have you.
7. Search: what the hell? If someone builds a better search engine, I’ll use it. Sure I’m not a representation of everyone but I think it’s fairly safe to say that there’s very little product loyalty these days with regards to websites. We use the latest and glossiest gadgets and whichever works best for our needs. Search can always be improved…

Anyway just my overly opinionated thoughts, I’ve played around with Chrome, seems swish but it will not replace FF3 as I have dev tools that I like to use that chrome doesn’t have.

More competition creates innovation. I welcome this browser… and think back to when IE stagnated the hell out of the internet back in the day. Don’t let us slide back into such a hellish time. Please, for the love of god.

Nice article.
No one can easily shift from one browser to another. Even i feel difficulties while using browsers like Netscape and IE because i am using Firefox.

I’m sorry but most of those are really stupid arguments. Especially the 6th one: I don’t give a damn about that FF guy, OK? All I need is really good browser. FF is far from good, I’m sorry. It is probably the best we have but still it’s not good. I hope Chrome is gonna be better.

To be perfectly fair – yes, 1st argument makes sense. I don’t say it’s right, but it at least makes sense and is worth further consideration.

One more reason not to use the new browser that now google will know when and where you are doing Seo.

I forgot to mention. What the hell is wrong with Google?

I always hear “whaaaaa, google hold all my private data”. This does not concern me for 3 reasons;

- There are laws to prevent your data from being mistreaded
- I have been using google since it first got big, including Gmail. They have never given reason to complain, never sold my data and the apps they make are very high quality.
- I have nothing to hide in the first place.

As for the situation in China, google had 2 choices. Pull out or filter their content. So which do you think is better? Either way the Chinese are gonna end up with their information filtered so at least they can find the information thats avalible easier. Google arn’t that bad guys in the situation the Chinese govornment that are.

I Broke Google Chrome!

Here’s the beta comment I sent:

“I noticed while it was installing, twice it wanted to access the DNS/RPC server remotely. So I ran this reg script to disable remote access (using XP by the way) and rebooted:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Parameters] “RpcProtocol”=dword:00000004

I accessed 2 or 3 pages before running this script. Worked fine then. After script, broke your browser. I can’t even access Google. Firefox, Safari, Opera, and that dreaded IE still work!

So thanks for teaching me that trick!”

Wonder why they feel the need for remote DNS/RPC server access. The other above mentioned browsers don’t need it. Broke Secunia’s Online Software Inspector also. If I change that part of the registry back to default (dword:00000001) Secunia’s inspector works. Wonder what else I broke.

I uninstalled Chrome, removed all traces of it from my registry and firewall permissions.

1. I don’t have a problem with Google’s “monopoly”. They consistently do great things and thats all that is important.

2. Google doesn’t know everything that you do.

3. Ads don’t bother me anymore, they are easy to ignore as long as they don’t float across the screen.

4. Chrome runs off of Webkit. Therefore if a website works with Safari it will work with Chrome. And so far that proves true.

5. If your going to say that about IE and Chrome then please include every single web browser out there. But, all of them are starting to get away from that and adobt most of the same standards.

6. Yes they will support them. Because as the web browser improves (no matter whos it is) Google wins and makes more money.

7. Someone will eventually trump Google. It happens all the time in everything. Its just a matter of time. Until then I will continue to enjoy and use Google products.

Now, so you know I’m an avid Firefox user. I love it to death! But Google Chrome does some good things that no other browser does and I’m looking forward to its being around improving all browsers. You people who are Google haters need to get off your high horse and just enjoy the good things out their.

P.S. I’m posted this comment using Chrome. :)

Chrome definitely is the most interesting development on the browser market for the past few years, at least for someone who is not a browser pro. It definitely got some excitement into the game, and it does many things in ways, which might be interesting for others to pay attention to: minimum screen real estate for menus and bars, very basic and simplistic design, the task manager (rocks!), the potential to run some pretty cool stuff if all their references to web-app development are correct, etc. I think it will take market share from Firefox, rather than IE; but I think if FFox will take up this challenge seriously, it will get a development jolt which will allow it, in the end, to have much more compelling features, and take share from IE.

As for your points, I think you’re wrong.

1. Google is in fact heavily involved in many open source projects. It isn’t just involved in Firefox development. Google very much advocates open source. Google Chrome as it has been said will be completely open source, not partially open source. If they want part of Firefox’s market share they’re obviously wouldn’t make it partially open source.

2. As for privacy, if Google already knows everything because you most likely use one or three of their services what would using their browser give them anything they couldn’t already find out about you? No. Google Chrome could streamline the process, but who cares if they know what OS you’re running or your screen resolution anyway?

3. No doubt Google (basing Chrome partially on Firefox) will implement extensions. They’re not stupid, they will implement a way for people to import Firefox extensions because they know it’s the only way to get Firefox users.

4. Google Chrome is virtually no different to the Apple Safari web browser. In fact, the Webkit engine has less hassles and bugs rendering websites than IE does. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a serious layout bug like I have in IE since forever. You’re stating that Google Chrome is an entirely different browser altogether, this isn’t true. Google Chrome is virtually Apple Safari with better memory management and a new skin.

5. Google are using as it has been stated and it is known Webkit for it’s website rendering. Google aren’t adding any propriety “chrome only” attributes, functions or ways of rendering the UI. If anything, Google will make the race for web standards compliance faster and more vigorous. Microsoft, Opera, Firefox are already working on web standards compliance.

6. Google will continue to support Firefox. Do you really think Google would damage ties with Mozilla when they use part of Firefox itself in Chrome? Because anything Firefox creates Google will be able to use and would be the first to know, and vice-versa.

7. Google will be the default search engine. How is this any different to what Firefox currently has as it’s default engine? And how is this any different to what the Google Toolbar does as well.

This is a pretty un-thought out post. You should have backed up your points a tad better. The browser isn’t even a 0.5 beta yet, come on. It’s completely non feature complete.

oh really nice article, i mean the first nice and sensible article about chrome if you ask me i am also a little bit against chrome reason behind this is they tried to acquire FF they refused and they started making their own browser more like fulfilling their ego, second firefox development level has reached too much its plugins and many other tweaks and working like a charm chrome is new and imo needs more than 365 days to fully compete firefox atm any browser is better than chrome maxthon opera whatever you name it.

google e’ in effetti in testa nella gara per i sosia del grande fratello.

I agree with most of your points. I especially agree that it will make it a little more difficult to code to a new browser and to make sure that a site looks good on all of them. For me, it just doesn’t make sense for google to be competing with Firefox because they already donate money to them. Time will tell to see if chrome becomes popular.

it’s funny, the more i use Chrome (for windows), the more unstable it seems to get… crashes a lot more, can’t handle sites with flash, hangs every time i close a tab… all that to say, i’m switching back to Firefox

The reason #2 is only one does matter. Google is not a simply “yet another browser vendor” or some greedy software corporation. It’s a huge corporation with strong interests to people’s private and business data. I don’t imagine what an angels they should be to not share these data with government structures.

I’ll lick the ones that doesn’t stick…If you get my drift.

1. Totally wrong and FUD. Chromium is under BSD license. Anyone can get the code and do whatever they want.
2. Privacy: heh.
3. Ads: I am pretty sure in a few month there will be a Chromium based browser with flash -ad blocking options.
4. Web Development: Total ignorance. Program for standards. It uses webkit .
5. Web Standards: Uses open source webkit what are you talking about?
6. Firefox: Why not? They extended the deal to 2011 already.
7. Search: Irrelevant. It uses your default search engine not googles.

In general you don’t know what you are talking about. How old are you again?

My 2 cents, it may not even be worth that much:

1) Microsoft is a natural monopoly that occurred due to dominating their market and finally taking it over. They continually abuse their status as a monopoly and break the rules (Sherman antitrust, etc.) but not necessarily because their some kind of bad guy. Google is on their way to becoming a possible monopoly but they aren’t there yet. Incidentally, WebKit is not proprietary and the GUI and code around the edges is proprietary in every browser, some just publish it so you can see it. While I do blame Google for bending to the pressure of the Chinese government, it was they not necessarily Google who imposed restrictions. Come into my house and obey my rules or leave. A billion people is a lot of users…

2) I tend to agree with this point, but I imagine there are lot of people that already did this to some extent. Google is the first one to save everything forever though. Its a huge temptation and I expect them to eventually give in to it. Innovation has risks to the users as well as the innovators (see Microsoft and Intel).

3) Not one shred of fact or publicly known evidence to support this opinion. Hard to argue since opinion is the only thing present.

4) Web developers have to deal with a new release of any browser as if it were a completely new browser, so truthfully I don’t see how this differs from the current webiverse in any way.

5) I totally agree on this point. I already see websites that don’t work on Chrome. This is made much worse by the fact that IE hasn’t bothered with using real web standards at all up to this point. Being the biggest has its advantages. Most sites that don’t work in Chrome also wouldn’t work in FF since they were coded by web developers who were only interested in IE.

6) I actually see the wisdom in doing just that. You see Microsoft has discovered that “doing evil” becomes a matter of side effects of business thinking when you are a monopoly. The easiest way to stop these side effects is to try to not become a monopoly. Competition is healthy and prevents that. Do the execs at Google think this way? I don’t know.

7) This is taught in college at basic levels. Market pressures are nothing new. As long as the entry into the market isn’t barred by unnatural business operations like collusion, or attempting to bar entry by strong-arming then it’s normal and will happen whether you like it or not.

In closing I just want to point out that you should try to support your statements with actual facts more when you write something like this. What you’ve done is create a post that will get you torn apart by those who disagree and they’ll follow your lead. They’ll make wildly accusatory statements without a shred of factual evidence to back them up. Nobody wants a flame war. One last point, its not “idiot crap” just because you don’t agree with it. If you want a discussion you have to expect to talk to those who don’t agree with you, otherwise its a cult not a discussion.

I agree with you that Google’s monopoly over the web is becoming ridiculous. However I think that the release of chrome will not rival firefox. I personally love firefox because of the plugins available to web developers. I would also hope that Google keeps it’s high ethics and doesn’t become like Microsoft

I think your dead on about your seven points, just another way for Google to dominate in every way, but can you blame them?

Google Chrome is use big RAM resource. I only use chrome to check gmail, if I needed to :D

In my opinion chrome is still better than IE. But for regularly browsing i still use Firefox. I like their add on. It is very useful for my work.

well, you actually couldn’t say that Google wanted to go at war with firefox, they have supported it for years and moreover sergy brin said in an interview that they certainly do not intend to outsell Firefox’s market share. Instead they just want to keep the internet open for the next version which ‘others’ cannot actually see now, which will be solely based on Javascript. I think that probably that is why they have worked so hard on their Javascript processing engine!

Thanks for having time to present these 7 reasons. I am a user, that’s I am not competent in all this details, but I can say this Google Chrome will go into my life.

Love the image you have source for this post. Totally agree with this. I can’t see it taking off though. There is not much chance that MS will ever bundle with Chrome, Linux distros will probably always bundle FF or Konqueror and Mac will always use Safari or maybe Camino. So, it is unlikely Google will ever be able to get much penetration.

yeah….so let use firefox!!!!!!!!!!

Very good interesting post i really liked reading it this was new to me as i was doing some research days back and wanted to see how far google chrome is good but still after reading it my few of the concepts are clear but still stuck with few confused..