Category Archives: Chrome

Chrome narrows Firefox's lead. Now what?

As an update to my last post about the future viability of Firefox comes news that Google Chrome will now have the built-in ability to sync your bookmarks with the cloud – presumably with Google Bookmarks – as well as … Continue reading

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More Firefox: beating the competition and making money

My last post generated a fair amount of discussion (comments+email) about Firefox’s future given the increased competition in the browser marketplace. Let’s say Firefox does buck the trends that open-source applications seem to follow (either having their best features taken … Continue reading

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Why you (probably) won't be using Firefox a while from now

Mozilla CEO John Lilly on the number of fast, capable browsers in the market: “The world is a lot different from a year ago, and we have three brand new browsers and there is a lot more competition and as … Continue reading

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Opera Mini and S60 Browser – both not quite there yet

On my N82: spent some time with Opera Mini after a while – had been using Nokia’s built-in S60 Browser exclusively over  the past few months. Here’s a list of peeves and loves about each browser.   Opera Mini Good … Continue reading

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Google's Chrome gamble that no one's talking about

Much has been said about Google’s open-source browser strategy after the Chrome release. The consensus seems to be that Google doesn’t want to win any direct “browser wars” (at least, not in the Netscape v/s IE sense), but to raise … Continue reading

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