Well, the rumor that won’t die has a name. Its called Chrome or Google’s browser. I won’t believe it until I see it, rather, this seems like more FUD at this point(for linux). A few other articles speculate a few things about Google’s tabs & running those pages in a ’sandbox’ mode, a mode that is ’safe’. I will speculate on this sandbox mode & the great thing about Chrome.

First, comes Google’s sandbox tabs. Well, there is a bit of interest here with tabs themselves being able to run independently from another tab. If that tab crashes, then, the browser itself is fine and just that one tab is effected. Now, my question really is how safe can this new browser be? I mean first they are beta testing it on Windows. The program itself will be using different APIs from the Windows system, that I’m sure once reviewed will show gaping security flaws because I’m sure it will be using an undocumented API a few times, the browser may be hooking itself onto other processes in an unexpected way.. I just see a whole slew of problems coming from the Windows beta. Which leads right into the next paragraph…..

The Great thing about Chrome

For all the problems that will be found their will come patches. Why? Because this is an open source project, anyone can download the source and peer review this code. Any cracker can download this source code, look it over, find an issue & have the next Storm worm running.. See the issue with open source on windows is just that.. I’m disappointed that Google released an Open Source Project first on a closed system with out doing both Windows & Vanilla Linux at the same time. I mean all Google has to do for the later is release some source code & have a hungry, egger community finish what they have started. I’m sure the Google browser would find such a community.

Conclusion

I guess over all I’m just bummed that Google would decide really launch a browser, an open source browser first on a closed system. They have chosen not to wait for the open source browser on the open source system to do a dual launch. I mean all in all if they would have launched first in the Open Source community waited a while for a Windows launch the marketing would have gone pretty much the same. Their would still be the tremendous amount of buzz coming from every blog, and TV news network(Possibly a slight loss, I’m willing to concede). I guess I’m not in waiting for source code I can’t wait to get my hands on and play with. I hope all the hackers out their have fun with Chrome & I’m sure we will see some exciting plugins come in the future.

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