Comments on: Who wins a Browser War?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:05:44 +0000

I have to say IE8 really missed a trick by not cutting down in size. Firefox is looking a little old. At least Chrome answered all those who were crying out for a browser that doesn’t have 5 levels of menus taking up valuable screen space on their netbooks.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:17:19 +0000

I’m with Tony on this one. I think their long-term strategy is to become the equivalent of Microsoft Office for the Web 2.0 world – and having a browser is like becoming the operating system for that world

It’ll be interesting to see if they start doing deals to get Chrome pre-installed by the PC manufacturers, or the ISPs (on their setup disks). That seems to be the strategy they’re taking with mobile phones.

Cheers, Jon

By: Hobo

Hobo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:42:43 +0000

RE What’s next….

You have heard of the mobile revolution lol.

… and we’ll always be tweaking for the next version of IE of course

By: Mike Annable

Mike Annable — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:25:38 +0000

I haven’t tried chrome yet, but I was thinking the other day. I remember back in the mid to late 90’s making websites. I always had to be concerned with layouts between Internet Explorer and Netscape at the time. Oh yeah, we can’t forget silly AOL and Web TV.
Then, 10 years later it’s IE and Firefox. Now we have to be concerned with Google Chrome. Geesh…..what’s next?

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:10:22 +0000

Hi Katy, While Webkit was originally apple baby and is indeed the basis of Safari it’s basis is in the old KDE browser making it a Linux thing There isn’t a Linux version either still the good news is since your already testing Safari you don’t need to test Google as well (at least that’s the theory) given they share rendering engines.

By: Katy

Katy — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:51:33 +0000

I did see on the BBC News 24 Program “Click” this morning that Chrome is based on Apple’s Webkit. If that’s the case, why isn’t there a Mac version available?!

To be honest, I can’t see me moving away from FireFox, although as a Web Developer yet another browser to test on is something I don’t need!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:39:43 +0000

I think the best outcome will be Firefox incorporating the V8 Javascript engine and couple of other Goodies – then there will be no need for anyone to use Chrome.

By: Tony Murphy

Tony Murphy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:54:08 +0000

Hi Tim.

I would agree with you that Google are going to get more dosh from PPC via their new browser, but I thuink that it is also (mainly) a part of their strategy to become the new desktop and operating system.

Google are investing in online storage – your new hard drive
They are providing you with iGoogle – your desktop
They give you Chrome – your browser
They are investing heavily in web apps – your new microsoft office

They bring you tea!
Well, I’m still waiting on that one

cheers
Tony

By: Numptie who can't read

Numptie who can't read — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:48:10 +0000

Hey i agree, i tried chrome too . . . after about 20 minutes i closed it, re-opened firefox and have not opened it again since. If memory serves, that was only 2 days ago, and i dont really remember but there was something lacking that only firefox serves for my general webmaster purposes. Cheers, i gave it a stumble thumbs up and a digg too!

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:56:09 +0000

@Graham – WordPerfect ROCKED!

If you all don’t mind, I’ll just take your word for it and not even download the thing. You can’t just put chrome on a browser and think people are going to love it.

I put some 22″ rims on my Flock browser, but it’s still slow.