The Mike Abundo Effect

Google Chrome is barely a day into beta, so I don’t expect it to be perfect. I do, however, expect it to run.

I’m sure Chrome runs Web apps like lightning, with its process isolation and V8 JavaScript engine. Google seems to have forgotten, however, that while Chrome runs Web apps, it still runs on the desktop. They may have used their index to test Chrome on thousands upon thousands of the world’s most popular sites, but they apparently didn’t test it on as many desktop configurations. Read the rest of this entry »

In a matter of hours, Google will unleash its new Chrome browser. Built from the ground up to support the rise of Web apps, Chrome will strike at the very thing that gives Windows most of its value. Read the rest of this entry »