WHOA - What’s with all this Chrome stuff?

Lofty goals are important.  Changes in the technology continuum create a better experience for everyone.  No doubt about it.  Things like the rise of Google, Youtube, Ebay, and so forth are all examples to that.
Something new comes along, some folks make money, a leap in technology is made and everyone plays catchup.  And then we are all better off.

So let’s talk about this Chrome business.  Now, just because a browser is better doesn’t mean people will use it.  The only thing that will change Internet Explorer’s dominance is knocking Windows off the desktop.   Don’t hold your breath.

I have been a Firefox user for years. I use IE when I have to.  I love the flexibility, quickness, the tabbed browsing, extensions, etc all that stuff that makes it a 100X superior browser to Internet Explorer.  And I have tried to get so many people to change over.  Technical people, non-technical people, you name it.  The bottom line is Internet Explorer is good enough.  There are enough new features being released in IE that few but the technically elite will bother to change.  I am also betting that most people that switch to Chrome will be Firefox users at least at first.

What will undeniably happen is that all the browsers will keep pace as well, transforming the web as we know it in the long run.  Chrome and Firefox need Internet Explorer and vice versa. At the root of it all is a focus on Google Chrome to be the platform for their web-based Apps.  We will have to see if this incentive along with the technical prowess of this browser is enough to turn the tide.

So give Chrome a whirl, know this is a first version.  Some things will come up as Alex Lewis has mentioned, but they can and will improve.  But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and proclaim this will knock Microsoft’s browser out of the box.  Maybe with steady improvements and some marketing or a tie-in with an Android-based phone revolution, we will see something significant in the long-run.  This is certainly significant news and it could be one piece to a grand story that remains to be told.