So one more Browser entered in to the Browser war, the Google’s Chrome. According to Google, the new browser “combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.” Google proclaims that, their browser is meant for providing a platform to run web applications much faster and safer. But we have to wait and see the corporate interests coming out, if any
As an internet user, how is this going to affect us? Will it be detrimental or beneficial for us?
I can foresee a few things that could happen in future. Google says that their browser is primarily meant for web applications. Google’s main web applications are Gmail, Orkut, You Tube, Google Maps etc. So defenitely Google will try to make their applications with richer functionalities, more intuitive user interfaces and so on, which MAY NOT work with other browsers. This point has to be considered together with the suit filed by Google accusing Microsoft for their latest version of Internet Explorer not running Google websites with the same efficiency as it would do for all other websites. Nobody think Microsoft will be dumbs. They will also try to pose challenges for other browser which is not their’s. May be a few years down the line, the internet community will have use Chrome for accessing Google and Google’s websites, Internet Explorer for accessing Microsoft sites etc etc.
Imagine a situation where all the people will be using a single brower, financially supported by all the corporates, technically supported by the open source developers and morally supported by all of us. If that happens we would have had a super super Browser which can do wonders for us. Lets hope that all these individual efforts will streamline together oneday, and everybody will benefit from it.
