xcelsior

Google Clarifies: Search Isn't Almost Done

Some small businesses are already changing to web based platform in lieu of Google Docs. I don't know what your bias is, but Chrome is already one hell of a browser despite being in its beta stages. They are very much a software company.

How The Street's Digesting Apple

There's not too much of a doubt that Apple's brewing something awesome inside closed doors as their history of explosive free and viral marketing has taught us. Don't be so quick with your lost in confidence in AAPL just yet.

Ride Out the Recession with Activision Blizzard

The December 2008 release date for Starcraft 2 is such a lie. It will be AT LEAST several months after that before it is released.

Google’s Chrome Saturating an Already Crowded Browser Market

Sorry, the author of this should actually try the browser. It is significantly faster than Firefox 3.0, not marginally 13% faster. Despite Firefox 3.0's fix on many memory leak issues of FF 2.0, it still becomes a monster memory hog at times. Your claim for lack of innovation shows your lack of knowledge about Chrome. Part of the reason of Chrome's resilience is that it manages every open web page as a separate process instead of a forking a thread from a singular process. The disadvantage is that there is higher startup memory, since creating a new process incurs more memory overhead. But the benefits is there won't be an extra layer of memory fragmentation and when a website crashes, it won't crash the whole browser along with other working websites. That is innovation there.

The point of W3C compliance is so people don't have to write websites for certain browsers and the future of all browsers will be following this standard. Getting your website to work on Firefox will probably do the same with Chrome. If it doesn't, then Google devs have some work to do. The reason Firefox is awesome is its sophisticated plugin extensibility. When Chrome has that community, it will definitely be something I'd use (especially when there is a adblock plugin that will block ads, including Google Ads [haha]).

Google: Chrome, Android and The Cloud

Guys, there are privacy options in Chrome that allow you to surf a page in "incognito" mode so no history of it is saved. Plus the fact that all the web processes are run with lowest privilege possible defeats your privacy argument about Google.

What (If Anything) Google Chrome Will Mean for Businesses

Considering that Chrome is built on Webkit, the same toolkit that runs Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Konquerer, and that it is open source, I don't see how this is anything evil. It does seem that, however, it will change the dynamics of the user experience.

I still love Firefox but after reading about the memory and process management of Chrome and a completely revamped and more powerful javascript engine in it, it looks like a very promising browser. Firefox 3 has fixed many of Firefox 2's memory leaks, but is still quite a memory hog. Heavy AJAXified websites still run sluggishly, so I'm hoping Chrome's javascript engine will improve on these aspects.

Meet Chrome - Google's Windows Killer

You silly Wall Street people. You scratch the surface thinking that this is a blood-thirsty competition between big corporate companies before digging deeper and understand what the technology behind Chrome is about.

When I heard about Chrome, I first asked myself, why should I switch to it? I love Firefox already with some useful plugins so I don’t see much of a reason to switch to it. Like many of you, I thought Google was reinventing the wheel. So I read on…

Chrome is NOT an operating system!! Jumping into such a conclusion after seeing the word “os” shows that you lack the understanding on the technology behind Chrome. Chrome behaves like an operating system in terms of memory and process management, unlike current browsers that work on a singular memory address space. Instead of forking a thread within its browser process, Chrome creates an entirely new process. The disadvantage to this is that it has more overhead because it takes more resources to create a new process (allocating a new address space) than to fork a new thread (since the memory space is already their from the parent browser process). The advantages are that it scales better, incurs less memory fragmentation, and a bad web page does not crash the whole browser along with other webpages you’re viewing. The memory fragmentation is abstracted back up to the operating system (.ie Microsoft Windows) to handle the process memory management.

Chrome is built on Webkit, which is a standard web browser toolkit that helped build Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and KDE’s Konquerer. It is also open source so that other developers could propel forward the user internet experience. If you think this will cause user confusion as to which browser to choose, consider Microsoft’s IE. So far, it is closed source and not W3C standard compliant (W3C maintains an international web rendering standard). They’re changing though, because they’ve stated that IE8 will be standards compliant.

I don’t deny that Google is trying to take some of the desktop user experience from Microsoft. They’ve already been doing that with Google Desktop Search against Windows Search and with Picasa (a photo organization software). But before you label this as a corporate hate game, get your facts straight. Steve Ballmer may hate Google, but Google does not hate Microsoft, considering their Chrome browser only works on Windows so far. Admitting that you are an average PC user is not a sin, but commenting like you’re more than that is.