The thing with Google, and Apple, in today's times is the instant launch they get with just their name, whichof course comes with the reliability that they'd back it up with an above average product at least and define a new set of stats for the market.(Although sometimes I wish they were a little faster...Googletalk Desktop version needs updated features since forever, and so on). And so it's unsurprising the kind of rage Chrome is these days. Whether it'll survive, only time will tell. For now, it's simple look, easier search in the address bar and visited website tab are finding favor, and reports claim it's faster and is fighting Microsoft's IE8 head-on, the comparison with the more established and bigger favorite Firefox is still iffy. Although my Firefox 3 crashes more often than it should (retrievably) and takes up more memory than Chrome, I think I'm sticking to Firefox for better functionality and stability. Neatness is one thing, but first love is first love. There're bound to be improvements in the future anyway, so the battle is on. What's your choice?
UPDATE: Just got to know, Google apparently has a clause in T&C for Chrome that says Whatever you compose on Chrome...right from emails to blogs, is google's property. Google says it will fix it in the next edition. Gawwwd. No Chrome for me!!! Here:
""By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services."
UPDATE: Just got to know, Google apparently has a clause in T&C for Chrome that says Whatever you compose on Chrome...right from emails to blogs, is google's property. Google says it will fix it in the next edition. Gawwwd. No Chrome for me!!! Here:
""By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services."
24 comments:
thanks for the T&C update
it's crazy
plus i upgraded to FF3 from 2 the day chrome was launched, i don't like the amount of time it takes while indexing
Well that EULA thing was supposedly a copy-and-paste error by google. (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080903-google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.html)
As about creating a rage rite away..well once a company gets a *cult* status among the techies it does happen, then the companies don't need to push their latest product news as people are ready to "pull" the news from them. As about reliability...well after the iPhone's bugs and seeing apple's evil policies i won't agree that they are reliable.
And just to finish i am preferring chrome for now, but it is missing a few key features i need - RSS feeds support (!!!), adblock, flashblock, full screen mode, slower rendering of pages containing images and flash. But for a start its an amazing browser !
well i would wait till chrome is out of it's BETA release.. and offers full functionality.. to me it seems as a combination of firefox and menu like IE... but the number of addons that firefox offers at this moment .. is greater than chrome...it's FIREFOX for me :)
I didnt find chrome impressive at all, well and if a browser is not impressive, why should I take the pains of installing it, and using it.
One place where it fairs better is that it eats a lot less memory as compared to Firefox, this becomes important when you are doing development / compiling on your machine.
I would go with Firefox. BTW thanx for the info that whatever we do on chrome is a chrome property
Let me take this opportunity to declare that this is a very multifaceted blog. Reading this article and then immediately afterwards reading, for example, the "Sleeping with..." post on the same page, and so on... will readily bring this impression to anyone's mind.
I liked the Beta Version of Chrome. Will wait for full version.
I.. I.. I, IE5, have got just one question for you.. How come this Firefox happen to be your fir.. first love? Were you just being.. being.. casual with me?
Baap re, aren't they some kinda laws against being so big-brothery on the internet?
Chromes cool but too many processes (one for each tab) doesnt look too good. But the good thing is, now that Google is in the fray, all the browsers are definitely going to get much more cooler to survive. Cheers to competition !!
Update from the FF camp : TraceMonkey their newest JS engine is faster than V8, so in affect FF 3.1 wud be faster than Chrome. Also the bunch of super awesome new add ons for FF completely seal the game as of now (check out Ubiquity - its the coolest thing I have ever seen in a browser).
Those terms and conditions are gonna give them fairly negative publicity... :-)
That clause is gone. Check google blog.
:) :) :)
PS - .....indeed
Couple of points -
- The License is some schmuck employee's mistake who burnt too much midnight oil
- Faster and neater aside, there are many many improvements under the hood. Did you read the comic? It has got multi-threading!
- Add-ons should come very soon, it is open source after all!
- Wouldn't recommend waiting for non-Beta version, gmail took 2 years (or was it more) to come out of Beta.
- gtalk updates in the background all the time (do you remember updating/installing new version to start using emoticons in blue?)
@Phoenix
Now how in God's name did you even come actoss that clause? Do you actually read all those terms and conditions that each software asks you to read and accept before you use the software? Hmm...
Also, I haven't visited your blog in quite some time, but even you seemed to have gone for the minimalistic, no-frills approach to your blog page that Google is a huge believer in.
Cheers!
I think gmail is still in BETA!! After all these years!!
[burf]
Crazy yes, mistake maybe, but still, super silly. I'm sticking to FF for now.
[Kon??]
Yeah that news maybe right, but negative publicity it gets anyway. As long as it is there at least, it's such a no. In fact why should it be there anywhere on any google product! :P
by reliability i meant the assurance of something at least on par with the market, if not living up to all the hype.
Add ons will come, i guess, in time. Happy chroming..
[daman]
Yeyyyy! :P
[shantanu]
Woh to hai, there needs to be enough incentive to take the pains of installing it....plus all those processes that chrome opens, it is an OS in itself! Manually killing them in case of a hang would be so much harder
[blueMist]
:)
[vibhav]
duh, uh, why say the obvious? :P :P
Jokes apart, a blog just reflects the author. It's like me...a little bit of everything...and nothing in particular!
Nothing important..
[vik]
Well, I told you, it never meant anything. Even if it breaks your heart to know, truth is, I was never in love with you.
[akshay]
I don't know...internet s the closest community we have in the world governed by anarchy! Cyber laws are for different domains, but who can interfere with company policies. Upto the customers' choice.
[veikiin]
Yeah, the competition bit is good news. Everyone got a rude wake up call :D And asI said, more processes makes manual killing harder :P
Thanks for that update, makes me feel happier abt sticking to Firefox
[natansh]
you bet...Google's existing image of using user data doesnt help its cause
[ritesh]
Hmmm...damage done. Chrome still not finding favor with me :P
[catalyst]
Indeed to what!
[natansh]
But with gmail beta works well enough, although they recently updated it big time!
hi phoenix: hop u doin well. As tp this post, let me confess i am pathetic with computers, as well as the technological upgradations, u can call me a computer illiterate if u want to. And as to the concern that u have pointed out, as well as i cud understand it, even i wont like it.
[prad]
Hail geekdom don!
I'm still waiting for gtalk to update invisible mode n colored emoticons on desktop :(
[slow sprinter]
Minimalistic..not very, but yeah, sticking to classic template.
Didnt READ it, but have a frnd in Microsoft :P for detailed analysis :P
[oceanic mirages]
:D Good thing, there's too much litter in the world by tech freaks :P
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