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[LS21]

Originally posted by: Anubis
willing to bet it wont be as good as opera

meh, thats not much of a measuring stick.

 

[aceO07]

It does seem to have some nice features (according to the comic). Each tab is a separate process. Private tab (great for banking) to clear out all info after it closes. It might be worth looking into, though FF3 with adblock and firebug and other extensions is unbeatable.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Just another step towards the internet appliance.

So obvious that they are going this route.

This is also why you do not invest in technology! It could work, it could fail, it could put APPL and/ir MSFT out of business. Things evolve to quickly in technology stocks.

BE WARNED!
<= value investor.

 

[dwell]

There's no way I am giving up Firefox and my extensions for some Google betaware. Google are terrible at desktop apps (Google Desktop, Google Talk, Web Accelerator) and from the screenshots this does not look to change anything. I read the comic and all the tech mumbo jumbo seemed nice, but giving up all the functionality I have now for faster JavaScript and isolated processes ain't worth it.

Webkit does kick some serious ass though. I'd love to see Mozilla dump Gecko for Webkit at some point, but seeing how Firefox is so closely coupled with Gecko with XUL it's never going to happen.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: n7
Eh, i don't see this replacing FF due to the extensions i use in FF...we'll see how this is, but i don't see it likely being all that awesome.

what FF extensions do you regularly use? The only one I ever found really useful is the quick search on different sites.

Adblock Plus
BugMeNot
FatCash
FireFTP
FireVortex
Forecastfox
Foxclocks
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
Googlebar Lite
IE View
Nightly Tester Tools
Organize Status Bar
Translator
Unlinker

 

[clamum]

Unless it has built-in mouse gestures (or a plugin), and a plugin like Firebug, I'll stick with FireFox.

 

[rivan]

Neat. I'll probably give 'er a shot, but adblock and greasemonkey are musts for me.

 

[zoiks]

I lub Google.

 

[oogabooga]

I like FF3, it works pretty well for me. I love that the extensions I use (Adblock, greasemonkey, gmail manager, foxmarks, better gmail, age, etc) make web browsing much easier (Especially foxmarks for syncing my bookmarks between computers).

This would have to be significantly better than FF to make me switch.

 

[judasmachine]

I'll check it out, but it looks kind of Fischer Price like.

 

[RichardE]

I have even more warm fuzzies for google after reading that comic

 

[MaxDepth]

Google (page 8):

Placing blame where blame belongs.

In other words, if it doesn't meet our spec, then it is your fault.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
Google (page 8):

Placing blame where blame belongs.

In other words, if it doesn't meet our spec, then it is your fault.

Did you read the page? It's so if you click a link and all of a sudden your tab is freezing up, threatening the wrest of your browsers information you can find out specifically which tab is causing the issue.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Nik
The comic suggests that you can move tabs between windows, like drag a tab from one browser window into another browser window. I'm not sure why anyone would need to do that, but that's pretty cool

I've wanted this feature forever. Or be able to break a tab out into its own window.

you can swap tabs between FF windows by default, as far as breaking out tabs into their own new window, you might need an extension for that...

but I agree, anything that promotes better organization and manipulation of tabs/browser pages is much welcomed

 

[uberman]

Since there's a lot of speculation on what Google knows about us. (Leo LaPorte says) Is this browser a data mining tool for Google?

 

[Aharami]

would be funny if this browser comes with adblock built in, considering internet ads are google's cash cow.

 

[PokerGuy]

No adblock means no go for me. If there's an adblock extension then I might give it a try.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: classy
IE will continue to reign

boo

You know, say what you want, but I have not had any problems at all with IE7.

 

[HannibalX]

Somehow in the back of my mind I just don't trust Google to not record everything I do if I were to use their browser.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Somehow in the back of my mind I just don't trust Google to not record everything I do if I were to use their browser.

Go incognito! It must be perfectly safe!

 

[George P Burdell]

15 minutes to go!!!

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Somehow in the back of my mind I just don't trust Google to not record everything I do if I were to use their browser.

Go incognito! It must be perfectly safe!

I'm already incognito!

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Somehow in the back of my mind I just don't trust Google to not record everything I do if I were to use their browser.

Same thing I was thinking. The individual process per tab sounds mighty interesting. It'll be nice not to have an entire browser hang because one tab is waiting on javascript/flash/some plugin that's eating up the browser process.

 

[dwell]

Originally posted by: uberman
Since there's a lot of speculation on what Google knows about us. (Leo LaPorte says) Is this browser a data mining tool for Google?

Read the EULA very carefully. I would not doubt if there is something you have to opt out of in order not to record your browsing history.

 

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