Atomic Number 24

[Isuka]

I'm trying out Google's Chrome web browser thing. It's nice, and this forum loads insanely fast.
So far, so good... well, except for that security flaw, but they'll take care of that in no time, right?

[Protodude]

I'm not really a computer whiz, but for me it hasn't been any faster then Firefox, and at times it's even been slower. I don't know if this is due to my internet connection or the computer itself. There also don't seem to be any features that other browsers don't have, though I'll admit I haven't used it much.

[G.Silver]

I don't really get why Google has made this thing. I mean, sure, I'm happy to welcome our benign Google Overlords, but what are they getting out of this? Is anyone making money off of browsers these days? The only thing I can think is that the Google browser reports the sites you visit and your buying habits for increased Google Ad accuracy--like instead of basing context-sensative ads on websites, the ads are aimed at you no matter what you are looking at. That sounds like pretty smart advertising, but also a huge invasion of privacy, so I'm sure people would be screaming if this were actually the case. What is the goal here? Did they just REALLY want their tabs above the address bar?

[Segaholic2]

One of the biggest points is that Microsoft and their domination of the browser market share could start using that dominance to push their own search service over others', so yes it is all about revenue.

[DackAttac]

like instead of basing context-sensative ads on websites, the ads are aimed at you no matter what you are looking at. That sounds like pretty smart advertising, but also a huge invasion of privacy, so I'm sure people would be screaming if this were actually the case.

Someone linked me to a news story yesterday, and the banner ad on top was consistently for gay dating sites. My friends say that it just came up as generic ads on their computers. So either it's already happened or my friends are have a good laugh at my expense.

[Locit]

One of the biggest points is that Microsoft and their domination of the browser market share could start using that dominance to push their own search service over others', so yes it is all about revenue.

I'd forgotten Microsoft even had a search service.

[DackAttac]

For some really stupid reason, I can't mentally connect Microsoft and MSN at all.

[Isuka]

I had a hard time figuring out what the "MS" in MS-DOS stood for. Really.

On closer inspection, this forum loads particularly faster than most of the other sites I frequently visit on any of the main browsers (tried IE, Firefox, Opera and currently Safari), Chrome actually isn't much faster than the others.
They even have a page explaining why they developed it, but it can be summarized as 'cause we felt like bloody doin' it, fella!
The only genuinely promising feature of Chrome is the fact that it separates each tab into a different, isolated process, so if a buggy site manages to freeze the browser, you'll only have to close that tab and not the entire application. But this same technology may be implemented in IE 8 and Firefox 4 (and that Opera Peregrine project) too, so it's pretty relative.
Oh, and the porn mode, which was confirmed in IE 8.

[DackAttac]

I had a hard time figuring out what the "MS" in MS-DOS stood for. Really.

Holy fuck. That's gotta push my retard index into "clinical" status.