Burning Chrome

Well, I've personally been real happy with Chrome. I've got it on OSX/Windows/Linux.<p>It's not a weird-ux like IE, it's snappy unlike Firefox, it isn't a memory-hog like Safari, and it's well-supported (unlike the runner-ups).<p>It also has an epically nice PDF reader, which could be its own product and <i>I</i> would be very, very happy.

The bit about the Cloud being like electricity is very insightful.<p>However, if you've lived anywhere outside the US and Europe, you know that grid electricity is not as available as you're used to. In third world countries, electricity goes off periodically, specially in places where there are wars.<p>When I was young (and living in the middle east) I heard a joke where 3 men: an American, an Arab, and an African were asked the question: what's your opinion about electricity going off? The American says: does electricity go off? The African says: what's electricity? The Arab says: what's an opinion?<p>I visited Iraq in 2000; practically everyone had an electricity generator at home. I had to learn how to operate it and refill it with gas.

I absolutely love Chrome. I recently ditched Firefox + Firebug for Chrome [Canary build] + Developer Tools.<p>It didn't take any time to get adjusted with the new Firebug like CSS editing and I no longer have to deal with having to regularly restart Firefox once it becomes sluggish.<p>Check out "Google Chrome Developer Tools: 12 Tricks to Develop Quicker" by Paul Irish: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEw9iiopwI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEw9iiopwI</a>

I love Chrome, but I hate silent updates.<p>The majority of Chrome users have no idea that their browser is silently updating itself without their knowledge or consent, and if they did, they wouldn't have any idea how to shut it off.<p>I can think of plenty of cases where most users would want to turn it off—tethered to a slow data network, throttled bandwidth, etc—but the precedent it sets bothers me more than any hypothetical inconvenience. It's like I'm suddenly, unknowingly leasing a little space on my machine to Google, and I'm not always sure what they're installing.

I used to love Chrome, but as of late it's crashing on a daily basis. Perhaps it is a flash issue, but Safari seems to handle it OK.

I think what Chrome really needs is the ability to watch HTML5 video in full screen (not just fill the browser window). At least this is Chrome's functionality on my Mac. I realize full screen video is not part of the HTML5 spec, it's left to the browser to implement. Safari will do full screen HTML5 video...

&#62; <i>Obviously no one will abandon Microsoft products wholesale anytime soon</i><p>Um… not that hard, if you aren’t so cheap as to only run Windows.

<i>I agree with most of the article. Android and Chrome OS are great products, I just don't see how Google is going to make money from them.</i><p>Not sure about Chrome, but I feel like Android is a defensive measure against a possible monopoly. If one company controlled mobile then Google might be locked out of whatever greater potential mobile could reach. So Android doesn't necessarily have to be financially awesome to be strategically successful.

As I read the article, and only a paragraph or two into it, I was reminded once again why I think Google naming both their browser and their Linux distro "Chrome" was a bad idea. Feels like an amateur mistake the kind I wouldn't expect them to make but they did. Yes, technically, one is called ChromeOS, but obviously many folks are going to drop the -OS part when talking about it, thus causing confusion.