Google Chrome browser: Dethroning Microsoft or killing off Mozilla?

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Chrome is Disruptive Technology

Chrome is disruptive technology and seeing it downplayed by the established players is a text book symptom described by Clayton Christensen years ago.

The interesting questions to me are not if Chrome (beta) is ready for prime time (it is not) or which established browser will suffer more (they all will.) Much more interesting is that Chrome has all the trappings of a disruptive technology hiding in plain sight. Established browser vendors may publicly downplay Chrome... but I can guarantee that they are (or at least should be) taking this very seriously.

I wrote more about this idea here:

Google Chrome: Disruptive Technology
http://faseidl.com/public/blog/212172

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Not intuitive; tinker-factor looks like owning an English sports car; hope you like your Recently Visited Thumbnails as there is no readily apparent way to delete them. It's a busy world folks, a browser is not a toy.

Chrome- flashy speed, naked browsing !!

You all have me worried with the coding warnings.
I just tried the first few simple searches and found the address bar was a search box ( of course!), then saw my last weeks searches and history on the left side in full living color to every last bump and nubbin, realizing only then, that I really was 'one-with-Google' as the pages opened like lightening bolts, and searches were as fast as ever.
It does look a little lonely without the Google Toolbar currently.
Can this be a dream for those with two computers?

One for the world to admire in full content, and,
The other to use for personal, detailed, and confidential work?

Read that Use and Terms notice...you don't own a thing, nearly, in Google-land. You will be assimilated. You will not receive patents or royalties. Your mind is their mind. Their document, their choice.

Now we live in a glass house, faster, and faster, and faster!!!

Live fast, be happy.

Chrome breaks sites by obeying alternate styles

Google Chrome breaks sites by obeying alternate style rules as if active.

Basics here:

http://jeremyjarratt.com/2008/09/03/google-chrome-obeys-alternate-css/

Basically, avoid style conflicts, and list your alternate links BEFORE your active ones.

running it now

So far, I can make a few quick observations (as I'm using it right now). Number 1: it has an ugly UI. Number 2: it only imports from IE, not firefox or opera (read what you will into that).
Number 3: it gets acid 2 test right, but gets a 78 out of a hundred on the acid 3 test (linktest failed).
In this test box it occasionally doesn't show some characters when going from one line to the next - eventually they appear, be patient, it isn't that you skipped them in you zeal to express an opinion. Be patient when adding text - the thing goes crazy and substitutes letters for spaces and overwrites characters Don't freak out thinking the insert key got hit - it didn't.
Usually adding a carriage return helps.
The inline spell check works though. I'll reserve judgement, but Firefox will be my main browser until someone knocks off the king. That's FF2, btw. I'm still waiting on FF3 to have all the kinks worked out.

There's more on this story,

There's more on this story, in today's IT Blogwatch.

Google's new browser

Well, Google has certainly given bloggers something to scribble about. Point is, if it is good, secure software, we will use it, and then, thank you Google. Auldsod504