Where were you when Google launched the Google Chrome browser?
Will you remember what you were doing on this special day? One day your grandchildren will come up and as you hand them a Werthers Original while you sit comfy in your knitted sweater on a creaky old rocking chair you will recount the day the Google launched its browser.
I, on the other hand, have committed myself to forgetting about it as soon as possible. I predict (and hope) for a market share similar to that of Windows Safari (less than a percent). Early adopters will download it en masse, and it wont make a difference. Early adopters aren’t the force they like to think they are.
If you follow the links on techme or the trackbacks on Google’s official blog you’ll see everyone praising the skies. Most tech news blogs aren’t that great.
Part webkit, part some home-brewed JS, as a developer I loathe having to support yet another browser.
My first question is what development tools will be available for it? Will it have a firebug (firefox), web inspector (webkit), developer toolbar (IE) like add on? The only way I will even think about saying anything nice about this browser is if it has full fledged javascript debugger with full support for evaluated javascript (not the half assed crap you get with all the other developer tools where you can’t see the names of the files so instead you are left looking at a drop down list of 40 or so unamed evaluated javascript files when you use Dojo’s require()). Hell if it has that I’ll bite. I doubt it will be any good, I’ve seen and used Google’s desktop software before (Google Talk for example). It isn’t anything to write home about.
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