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Chrome: is Google losing it?

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I have been trying out the google chrome browser and i was a little let down. Google used to be the hub of innovation but this browser is a disappointment. The minimalistic address bar is a very poor clone of Firefox's wonderbar and the default homepage is an exact copy of Opera's hot dial, also the javascript console is a copy of safari's. And the list goes on....

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It solved the "elephant int he room"-problem wih browsers, that the whole thing crashes when one tab crashes. Each tab having its own process is great.

I miss some features from Firefox and I still use Firefox but Chrome defineately has potential.

And like bdfh42 said, it's waiting for a killer app.

Surely taking the best of a lot ideas and putting them into one browser is a good thing. That's how processes become streamlined and businesses flourish.

Chrome is not a general purpose browser. It's a desktop client for AJAX applications. It's more like NeWS than it is like Netscape. Use it for what it's for and it's fine.

but no bad for an early beta though.

Chrome will come to the fore when the first applications that rely upon JavaScript compilation for performance come along - the browser is waiting for the first "killer app".

Remember that processor speed increases are no longer a given - we need to develop ways to execute more code in the browser despite that, as then we can deliver the very rich browser based applications that (for the moment) are just a twinkle in a developer's eye.

To address the original point, I don't think Chrome is a sign that Google is losing the elusive "it". Google has a bunch of less-than-popular initiatives out there. Sometimes, they roll new products out not as an end-game but as a means to some other non-obvious goal.

The non-obvious goal being world-domination and the end of Microsoft.

So... do you like the browser or not? Forget whether it is "innovative", the question is are you happy as a user.

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