http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/10/the_goobrowser_wont_die.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the_goobrowser_wont_die Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/10/the_goobrowser_wont_die.php#comment-22708 Otis Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:46:28 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/10/the_goobrowser_wont_die.php#comment-22708 <p>Now that I think about it, is anyone 'keeping track' of that MS guy who worked on IE before Google hired him? Is Google investing/contributing people/time/anything into Firefox development, by any chance?<br /> </p> Now that I think about it, is anyone ‘keeping track’ of that MS guy who worked on IE before Google hired him? Is Google investing/contributing people/time/anything into Firefox development, by any chance?

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/10/the_goobrowser_wont_die.php#comment-22707 Otis Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:22:14 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/10/the_goobrowser_wont_die.php#comment-22707 <p>Google doesn't need to build the browser, just like they don't need to build a desktop OS. Firefox will beat IE (in a year or so, my estimate, after news of version 1.0 spreads to less geeky media and finds new non-technical adopters), so then Google will have a 'platform' to build upon. They don't need to build a browser, they don't need to even lease it, I think, they can just build powerful, rich, desktop app-like extensions.<br /> </p> Google doesn’t need to build the browser, just like they don’t need to build a desktop OS. Firefox will beat IE (in a year or so, my estimate, after news of version 1.0 spreads to less geeky media and finds new non-technical adopters), so then Google will have a ‘platform’ to build upon. They don’t need to build a browser, they don’t need to even lease it, I think, they can just build powerful, rich, desktop app-like extensions.

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/10/the_goobrowser_wont_die.php#comment-22706 Cory Doctorow Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:39:58 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/10/the_goobrowser_wont_die.php#comment-22706 <p>I can only hope that they're serious about not making a browser. Once the Google book-search launched with a DRM system that exploited browser vulnerabilities to remove features from your computer while you looked at their site (something that violates the spirit and possibly the letter of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act), I lost all confidence in a Google-branded browser. </p> I can only hope that they’re serious about not making a browser. Once the Google book-search launched with a DRM system that exploited browser vulnerabilities to remove features from your computer while you looked at their site (something that violates the spirit and possibly the letter of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act), I lost all confidence in a Google-branded browser.

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