following up from above.we tend to neglect the effect of the network effect of the powerful firefox development and support community.somehow this community of users has been able to drive the adoption of a browser that was able to take on even beat a giant company (microsoft) on its own turf without even a tenth of the resources.

As for chrome,there is no doubt that google is targetting mobile devices when it brings out a browser that can support and run web 2.0 apps as well as individual tab controls.mobile devices and thin clients are the key battleground now-there are about 3 billion mobile handhelds worldwide as against less than 1 billion pcs.and chrome is google's throw of the dice in this highly lucrative and competitive space.and i am pretty sure cellphone companies who are already hesistant to share user data with third-party providers/search engines will be even more wary now that the experience of isps in the pc space has shown that isps have not been able to effectively monetize the wealth which passes through their pipes and are being forced to try new  things(see

http://www.internetevolution.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=199847&piddl_msgid=165593#msg_165593).

it promises to be an exciting time! 
 
The chrome is just an acceptance of the fact that browsers are  basic operating systems by themselves.they handle asynchronous network traffic, user input, data rendering, and code execution very well.

I also wanted to know what users think about this new clickjacking vulnerability that is supposed to affect major browsers(most probably even chrome),and has something to do with flawed dhtml rendering.apparently only lynx works against it.but i want to hear what esteemed readers on this website
have to say on this issue.

ashish.

Having heard a lot about the chrome browser from google and in particular its ability to shut down individual tabs without interfering with other tabs as well as getting a decent reading of resources used by each individual tab  and also the sandbox ability(what one is going on in one tab is 'invisible'to the other tabs thereby decreasing effectiveness of driveby downloads,I decided to give the chrome a test drive.for various purposes and just to demo-test various web-apps i already use ie,firefox with no-script and occasionally opera &safari.

i did'nt believe google's new-fangled claims that its a more secure browser and the
fact that it will change the web-browsing experience.in fact,i was more suspicious of chrome,more than anything else-i mean google already funds a great deal of research in the firefox browser and supports it too,then why a newer browser?is it just another way to ensure all web-traffic passes through their search-engine,uses their google apps and their google docs??also,the moment i thought about the sandbox approach,then i thought ,might as well crash the whole damn thing and
then when you restart the browser,push malware/virus through as some sort of security update or just the way microsoft knows about this crash(how hard is it to craft something similar,which instead of sending information to microsoft,downloads stuff or even easier send it through as confirmation to a hacking website/botnet that the pc is  ready for your use?

the browser works okay,in fact for a number of simultaneous downloads it actually is faster than firefox 3.1,but the web-experience was average .as for it being more secure-it  did'nt take too long for malicious attackers to release carpet-bombing,buffer overflow and out of boundread flaws.in fact  it is still vulnerable to flaws that were patched in safari 3.1(they share  the same rendering engine).

http://aviv.raffon.net/

there is no doubt that this is just a test/beta version of a browser from google,but then gmail is still in beta after more than 4 years running.what's the guarantee that this browser won't  take as long to switch to a full flegded version?after using it and only it for two days straight,i started to miss my customized firefox interface with added plug-ins and toys that i use from time to time.and it did'nt feel like fun,so i uninstalled chrome and switched back to firefox.

what to readers think?is it worth the switch? would you be willing to use only chrome? would the majority of pc users who come with ie pre-installed and are quite happy with it,be willing to make a transistion.if my feeling with firefox is right and i am pretty sure about it as i am a part of bugzilla and the firefox development community-the kind of feeling/belonging that one gets from using firefox( i/or like minded people contributed to its development and contributed funds too)is what gives it a stickability factor.in fact i am amazed at how many non-geek users who are more artistically inclined use firefox,its become 'cool' to use firefox. plus the community feeling,i have lost count of the number of people who i have recommended firefox too,nah nothing to do with going to their website and siging some petitions,doing all those weird stunts to promote firefox,blah,blah,blah...but actually sitting downon a pc and (after listening to various malware/virus complaints from end-users) installing firefox ,explaining its virtues to the uninitiated and giving them a test drive. i feel like a missionary or something when i do that.would i show similar excitement in promoting the chrome? nah ,its just another product from a multi-billion dollar corporation,which is looking to increase its market share or product reach(that's what google is today)

my gut feeling is that the only reason why google went ahead with this browser is that they could'nt get the independent firefox community to bend to their will-which again caters to the rebel in each of us.as marketers like to say,every product is all about creating a need,its not enough to say you want a product,you have to be desperate for it and can't do without.its something which the chrome does'nt fulfill as of yet.

let me know what you guys feel.

regards

ashish.