The real reason Google is making Chrome

btw

"..memory leakage problems that cause other browsers to slow down the longer you run them as they slowly but surely eat up all available memory."
This is a gross statement for many reasons - who proved that Chrome has no memory leaks at all?
1) If so - it means that Chrome has no bugs (do I have to prove that since it's in beta it's very likely that it has hundreds of bugs?) or will have no bugs - can you guarantee that? Can Google? Neither can, take every big peace of software from any company and you'll find bugs even in final versions.
2) You have to go through third party (professional and unbiased) tests to say something like this.
3) A JVM does not mean flawless memory management, Java has a JVM as well and I can tell you (being a Java developer) - there's no Java VM I'm aware about that were bug free, besides, it only "tries" to not let the memory leak, and in a lot of cases the JVM has no way to prevent that - it's up to the programmer how he uses the resources.

sounds like vista

The explanation of why Google Chrome takes (much) more memory but in the long run actually pays off reminds me much of the excuse why M$ Vista abuses lots of memory:
"The net result is a Web browser that takes up a bit more memory when you first run it, but doesn't have the memory leakage problems that cause other browsers to slow down the longer you run them as they slowly but surely eat up all available memory."

ma pravdu

Taky se mi zda, ze chrome je pouze prostredi pro beh aplikaci googlu. Nemyslim, ze by firefox, ie nebo operu nejak vic atakoval. Ma rychle nacitani/provadeni javaskriptu, takze je pripraven na google apps

It always seems to amaze me

It always seems to amaze me why people think someone cares about replacing Office in the enterprise (both small and big).

The real challenge today is enterprise software, and not Office.

If you think about it financially, its pretty obvious that a small business will have the 400$ a user (which is by far cheaper if you combine the payed subscription for different WEB 2.0 technologies that try to mimic the whole package)
and won't go cheap on user productivity.

People, wake up, no manager is going to go cheap on his worker's productivity for a few hundreds bucks, just because someone released a new browser that happens to look fresher than the rest. (and please, don't sell me this "Office is overcrowded with features story again")

The only thing that changes is that Google is first to realize that offline is important, just as online, and that with all the computing power, it still makes perfect sense to use this machine power that is already available on our laptops.

I don't think Microsoft needs to worry....

Web-based documents have been out for a very long time and I have yet to see evidence of a stampede to such new means of doing business. Hey, I even recommended using web-based docs to my supervisor, but for me personally, when I wanted to write a memo thereafter, I turned to Microsoft Office. When I wanted to put together a simple spreadsheet, Excel it was. My last presentation was done in Powerpoint and my next one will likely be done in that software package, too. If Google is aiming at Office, its a misfire.

Give it a few more years and then people will be ready...just about the time when Microsoft comes out with its new concept OS. Sorry guys; hope in vain for the Big MS' death .

Javascript Compiler

If this is true, then this is something I can get excited about; especially since this is open source. No more using the MS script engine in my Desktop apps!

not only M$ should be worried...

Nice article,

but, I think that not only M$ should be worried about what is happening but the whole OS community..

See...:

SuSE ---> Novell --> M$
KDE ---> Trolltech --> Nokia
Mysql, openoffice, java --> SUN
and now Mozilla --> Google !??!?

Now not only M$ is worried... Everybody should be worried!!

gatuus

I love it

Everything google makes is great, they just keep making working on a pc a better and better experience! Keep it up!

Good concepts, and new concepts

Sun Microsystems introduced the JAVA technologies around 1990. Their credo was to provide a development system agnostic with respect to the underlying OS. The Java Virtual Machine completelly hided all the OS details, so why stay with Windows ?
They partially succeeded, they partially failed: who's running a 100% JAVA desktop today ?

Google Chrome logics is to decouple the browsing experience from the presentation layer. Integrate the memory management, the processes, the security, ... into a single environment. Provide and unify the widgets. This way, you don't need the OS, the rendering layer, the desktop manager. You don't need applications either, everything can be managed through the internal engine (the gears).

So ? Windows killer ? Office killer ? Let's take an appointment on Sep. 1st, 2018. There are good concepts and new concepts in Chrome. We'll see if good concepts are new, and new concepts good.