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does anyone care? does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser? this thing has turned out to be a huge flop for google, and a big waste of time. as long as

does anyone care? does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser? this thing has turned out to be a huge flop for google, and a big waste of time. as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain.

shadytrees 18y ago
does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser? I do. as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain. It's necessary for the health of the internet. A two-browser monopoly is just as bad as a one-browser monopoly. Assuming Google implements this correctly, it will be the first damn browser to actually make syncing bookmarks user-friendly. That's a feature that should be standard by now, but it's not. The browser space is still open to innovation.
justindz 18y ago
I do as well on my Vista work laptop. I sometimes have to do IE or FF specific things, and I use FF at home on Ubuntu, but for Windows I just use Chrome. I don't need a lot of plugins at work, the omni-tab page substitutes well for bookmarks and the browser is way faster, which is important since Vista is so chipper.
timae 18y ago
I use it a lot and really like it. As far as what Google stands to gain: they pay millions to firefox and others for search referrals stemming from the firefox homepage and the integrated search bar. Also, Google certainly benefits from people surfing the web faster (more page views = more money for them).
- unalone 18y ago
  I've always wondered if this is naive: couldn't a large part of it be that somebody at Google said "all these other browsers suck" and decided to fix it? I mean, Chrome takes ideas from other browsers and puts it together into something that's superb in nearly every way, especially for a beta. Google could very well have started the project intending just to make a really good thing. That and, you know, the millions of dollars thing. That's big too. (Does anybody else find it annoying that Google's software is always more aesthetically pleasing than their online programs?)

shadytrees 18y ago

does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser? I do. as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain. It's necessary for the health of the internet. A two-browser monopoly is just as bad as a one-browser monopoly. Assuming Google implements this correctly, it will be the first damn browser to actually make syncing bookmarks user-friendly. That's a feature that should be standard by now, but it's not. The browser space is still open to innovation.

justindz 18y ago

I do as well on my Vista work laptop. I sometimes have to do IE or FF specific things, and I use FF at home on Ubuntu, but for Windows I just use Chrome. I don't need a lot of plugins at work, the omni-tab page substitutes well for bookmarks and the browser is way faster, which is important since Vista is so chipper.

timae 18y ago

I use it a lot and really like it. As far as what Google stands to gain: they pay millions to firefox and others for search referrals stemming from the firefox homepage and the integrated search bar. Also, Google certainly benefits from people surfing the web faster (more page views = more money for them).

unalone 18y ago
I've always wondered if this is naive: couldn't a large part of it be that somebody at Google said "all these other browsers suck" and decided to fix it? I mean, Chrome takes ideas from other browsers and puts it together into something that's superb in nearly every way, especially for a beta. Google could very well have started the project intending just to make a really good thing. That and, you know, the millions of dollars thing. That's big too. (Does anybody else find it annoying that Google's software is always more aesthetically pleasing than their online programs?)