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What's the problem though? The market clearly exists (right now), so I don't why blame the company trying to get a share and help with this issue. It's clear t

by klohto 5y ago

What's the problem though? The market clearly exists (right now), so I don't why blame the company trying to get a share and help with this issue. It's clear that Google isn't going to optimize Chrome and people aren't going to switch to Firefox with Tree Tabs / Sidebery with background suspension.

pjerem 5y ago
> The market clearly exists Lots of browsers are implementing background suspension. Even if Google decided that they'll never implement this, it will be hard to convice potential customers to pay x$/month to solve a problem already solved by others browsers. And my issue was not about wether the market exists or not. It's about an unreasonable solution to an unreasonable problem. Market clearly exists if you are able to mass product diesel-powered personal jetpacks for $49.99. But it says nothing positive about our future. (but i'd be glad to try it at least once anyway :D )
- klohto 5y ago
  Ha! Try to pray people away from their Chrome browsers, good luck :) They would rather pay than switch. But yes, I agree on the sustainability future. Afraid there isn't a solution other than Chrome losing market share or Google implementing the feature.
  - pjerem 5y ago
    Yep, so they are not going to switch to Mighty either ;)
  - Jiejeing 5y ago
    Who is "people"? The only people I know who are dead-set on using chrome are front-end developers who work hard at making it the new IE6
michaelt 5y ago
Well, it sounds like a parody product because browsers are supposed to be the lightweight, fast clients for the things we've offloaded to cloud servers. By tradition, web browsing is the quintessential lightweight task, letting laptop vendors report "10 hours of web browsing" and the budget-conscious to say "8GB of RAM is more than enough for everyday tasks like browsing facebook" Hearing that someone runs their web browser on a cloud server is like hearing someone has hired a personal assistant for their personal assistant.

by klohto 5y ago

pjerem 5y ago

> The market clearly exists Lots of browsers are implementing background suspension. Even if Google decided that they'll never implement this, it will be hard to convice potential customers to pay x$/month to solve a problem already solved by others browsers. And my issue was not about wether the market exists or not. It's about an unreasonable solution to an unreasonable problem. Market clearly exists if you are able to mass product diesel-powered personal jetpacks for $49.99. But it says nothing positive about our future. (but i'd be glad to try it at least once anyway :D )

klohto 5y ago
Ha! Try to pray people away from their Chrome browsers, good luck :) They would rather pay than switch. But yes, I agree on the sustainability future. Afraid there isn't a solution other than Chrome losing market share or Google implementing the feature.
- pjerem 5y ago
  Yep, so they are not going to switch to Mighty either ;)
- Jiejeing 5y ago
  Who is "people"? The only people I know who are dead-set on using chrome are front-end developers who work hard at making it the new IE6

michaelt 5y ago

Well, it sounds like a parody product because browsers are supposed to be the lightweight, fast clients for the things we've offloaded to cloud servers. By tradition, web browsing is the quintessential lightweight task, letting laptop vendors report "10 hours of web browsing" and the budget-conscious to say "8GB of RAM is more than enough for everyday tasks like browsing facebook" Hearing that someone runs their web browser on a cloud server is like hearing someone has hired a personal assistant for their personal assistant.