[olug] Chrome

[T. J. Brumfield]

If you type in "redmondsucks" into the omnibox, it pulls up
http://www.internet2.edu/ running on Google's dark fiber network.

If you type in "ithrowchairs" into the omnibox, it pulls up Internet
2000, now with Clippy!

If you type in "geniusbar" into the omnibox, you get an elite internet
with only one page that says "iPerbole is the greatest thing ever!"

-- T. J.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:
> Sheesh, it just browses the *same* internet.  Where's the innovation in
> that?!@?
>
> :P
>
> Carl
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:46 -0500, T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
>> > Really? I haven't seen a single one, other than Google Earth which supported
>> > Linux before Google bought it.
>>
>> I run Picasa, Google Gears, and Google Earth just fine on Linux, all
>> with official Linux support.  Google even helped write some patches
>> for Plasma so that it could support Google Gears as Plasmoids.
>>
>> > That's okay. It's got nothing special or innovative after all.
>>
>> Wow.  You obviously didn't read the comic.  V8 is pretty huge in and
>> of itself, but each tab is a separate process, and each function
>> within the tab is a separate process.  It makes reclaiming memory much
>> easier to do.  The browser is also really big on sandboxing, and
>> approaches the web with a sane security model.  The separate process
>> thing is also a big deal for me, since I loathe how the entire process
>> hangs on one request (be it network, javacsript, etc).  Browsers are
>> also pretty unstable in how any one thing can easily bring everything
>> down.  The comic also suggests you'll easily be able to check out the
>> sub-processes and monitor them to check for CPU and memory usage.
>> Incredibly innovative and useful there.  They go even further and do
>> garbage collecting in between sites within the same tab.  Monitoring
>> connections across multiple domains can prevent cross-site scripting
>> attacks.
>>
>> The greatest innovation however is the sad tab.  Never underestimate
>> the power of "cute" in marketing your product.
>>
>> I'd say Chrome represents the single biggest batch in browser
>> innovation I've ever seen with a release.  Yet you suggest there is
>> nothing special or innovative about it at all.
>>
>> -- T. J.
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