Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome 604
tandiond writes to tell us that in a recent blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his thoughts on Google's new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla. "It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here — their business is the web, and they've got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better. Chrome will be a browser optimized for the things that they see as important, and it'll be interesting to see how it evolves." Mozilla's Europe president, Tristan Nitot also chimed in during an interview with PCPro, stating that they don't view this as a direct attack on Firefox, even if it did catch them by surprise. "I'll take another example: just before Microsoft launched Vista, it invited us [to work with it] so that Firefox works better on Windows Vista. Because for it, Firefox being a top-tier application that was very successful - we now have 200 million users around the world - it could not afford to have Firefox run slowly on Vista. Therefore, it helped us improve Firefox for Vista. That's just the same for Google. It wants Firefox to perform well with its applications, that's for sure. Indeed, it even wants IE to perform well with Gmail and the rest. It's just that it has very limited control over this. That's why Google's been frustrated and it is launching this Chrome browser."
"It"? (Score:5, Funny)
Because for it, Firefox being a top-tier application that was very successful - we now have 200 million users around the world - it could not afford to have Firefox run slowly on Vista.
I like that pronoun for Microsoft.
Not "them", or "they", and certainly not "he" or "she", but "it".
Like a fish in the hot sun... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Linux support will be coming later (Score:5, Funny)
Like most of the other Google toys, the Linux version will come out after Chrome leaves Beta.
Re:This is a good thing for Mozilla/Firefox (Score:2, Funny)
...so Debian and Ubuntu can have their own forked version, complete with silly name? Whoopee!
Re:Linux support will be coming later (Score:4, Funny)
Google toys leave beta?
Re:Not worried? Perhaps they should be. (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone except Microsoft welcomes Chrome (Score:4, Funny)
"We are so, so happy [today.com] with Google Chrome," mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth.
Re:Open source mojo (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, don't be so sure. I'm sure I've seen that "i++;" line somewhere before...
Is it web-based? (Score:4, Funny)
They could implement it using iframes and AJAX.
Re:Download is now available (Score:3, Funny)
It will get even faster over time, as the Google Overmind figures out what you would have likely posted (based on the tracked history of everything you've ever used your borwser for) and posts for you ahead of time. You get first posts before you even see the story in your browser! Of course, your posts will contain Double-Click-served ads, but it's a small price to pay.
Re:Not worried? Perhaps they should be. (Score:2, Funny)