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Who want's to bet this browser will catch up to and get more popular than firefox? It's sleeker, looks smaller, yet does the same stuff.

andreyf 18y ago
It's also a hell of a lot faster... among those who care about this sort of thing, this definitely is going to be the browser of choice. This is a really big deal.
bmj 18y ago
The one thing it doesn't have at this point? Extensions. I'm guessing there are plenty of people who will dig the browser, but without the bells and whistles provided by extensions, many users won't switch. I can live without AdBlock/FlashBlock, since I don't frequent many sites that have heavy third-party content, but as I said above, I can't live without Firebug right now.
- johns 18y ago
  In the presser, they said an Extension API is forthcoming.
- vnorby 18y ago
  The first thing I thought when I saw Chrome was that they want to stop/override programs like AdBlock for their search ads.
  - LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
    If that's the case, I go to filtering proxies at my end.
    - rms 18y ago
      Oh yeah! I forgot about those. Now I can use Opera. Well, I could if I used Windows. Any auto-updating filtering proxies for Linux? http://www.proxomitron.info/ http://www.proxomitron.info/ was the old standby
  - ashu 18y ago
    That would be the most ridiculous reason they would want to develop a completely new browser for.
    - vnorby 18y ago
      Not necessarily. AdBlock is the most popular extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:all?sort=popular https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:a... 440,000 people download it a week. That's a lot of people not even seeing their search ads!
thorax 18y ago
Well, not sure I'm ringing the bells yet. I think as people play with it, they'll see there's still a long way to go. The biggest is that it doesn't do extensions yet. It doesn't The first focus sounds like it will be the Flash engines of the world (i.e. binary extensions). Then later they'll add a Firefox-like extension model. Next they have their other OS's to support. So it's got a lot of catching up to do. I'm impressed with it so far, but I'm not uninstalling Firefox quite yet.
- maxklein 18y ago
  Extensions on firefox are broken anyways. Look how difficult it is to find and add an extension. I'm thinking less than 5% of firefox users actually use extensions, but I may be wrong there. If google makes extensions work better, the have a real winner. And firefox will die quickly.

andreyf 18y ago

It's also a hell of a lot faster... among those who care about this sort of thing, this definitely is going to be the browser of choice. This is a really big deal.

bmj 18y ago

The one thing it doesn't have at this point? Extensions. I'm guessing there are plenty of people who will dig the browser, but without the bells and whistles provided by extensions, many users won't switch. I can live without AdBlock/FlashBlock, since I don't frequent many sites that have heavy third-party content, but as I said above, I can't live without Firebug right now.

johns 18y ago
In the presser, they said an Extension API is forthcoming.
vnorby 18y ago
The first thing I thought when I saw Chrome was that they want to stop/override programs like AdBlock for their search ads.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
  If that's the case, I go to filtering proxies at my end.
  - rms 18y ago
    Oh yeah! I forgot about those. Now I can use Opera. Well, I could if I used Windows. Any auto-updating filtering proxies for Linux? http://www.proxomitron.info/ http://www.proxomitron.info/ was the old standby
- ashu 18y ago
  That would be the most ridiculous reason they would want to develop a completely new browser for.
  - vnorby 18y ago
    Not necessarily. AdBlock is the most popular extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:all?sort=popular https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:a... 440,000 people download it a week. That's a lot of people not even seeing their search ads!

thorax 18y ago

Well, not sure I'm ringing the bells yet. I think as people play with it, they'll see there's still a long way to go. The biggest is that it doesn't do extensions yet. It doesn't The first focus sounds like it will be the Flash engines of the world (i.e. binary extensions). Then later they'll add a Firefox-like extension model. Next they have their other OS's to support. So it's got a lot of catching up to do. I'm impressed with it so far, but I'm not uninstalling Firefox quite yet.

maxklein 18y ago
Extensions on firefox are broken anyways. Look how difficult it is to find and add an extension. I'm thinking less than 5% of firefox users actually use extensions, but I may be wrong there. If google makes extensions work better, the have a real winner. And firefox will die quickly.