Don't look at it as a threat, look at it as an opportunity. What Google is doing with Chrome OS is making one application the entire point of OS. They are wrapp

Don't look at it as a threat, look at it as an opportunity. What Google is doing with Chrome OS is making one application the entire point of OS. They are wrapping linux kerner around Chrome. This can be done for Firefox too, and for Konquerer/Opera etc. We have always thought that Operating Systems have become very complex, we do not need all those /devs and /procs, we do not really care about sysctrls etc. We want to build fast desktop applications. Javascript is becoming faster everyday. Leave that PyXPCOM is probably within the grasp in a year or two max, or even sooner. GNU/Linux has traditionally lagged in GUI app development, there are so many half mature options to pick from, the only clear winner coming out to be Mono/CSharp, which is ironical at best. Firefox is becoming more and more interesting with the advent of HTML5. All this is leading to an eventuality that Firefox should be able to do most of desktop applications. There is no reason why Gnome Terminal, Pidgin, Transmission can not be written in Javascript/PyXPCOM. This could rid us from the plethora of /etc files, from the command line. What sites you visit once that future arrives, and what are going to be the cookie retention policies are going to be completely under your control. Its not about privacy, they are rethinking how operating systems are done.