Google Chrome

[drplokta]

There's something that no one is mentioning with reference to Google's new web browser. Which is that if you read what the comic says about the browser, that's not a web browser, it's an operating system.

It has a programming language (Javascript). It has a filesystem/database (Google Gears). It has process management. It has window management and display logic. It has permissions-based security. This is not Google trying to compete with Internet Explorer, it's Google trying to compete with Windows -- or rather, make Windows irrelevant.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I guess they've seen all the vitality in the Firefox addon market and want to pull independent developers into working for them. I'm certainly a fan of the Firefox approach as its cross-platform and the tools can be installed at user level. Not sure I'd be nearly as keen as a sysadmin though, with all the users installing a rapidly diverging toolset.