I like the new attention on the JVM. Hopefully Java and javascript will be kept from dragging everything down to crash land.
To do what you talk about would be really easy. See Webconverger.org, boot CD with JUST a browser. Made to be a kiosk boot CD, if you could, then you'd just drop in a browser replacement for Firefox. If Chrome requires Wine, then you'd have to slap that in there along with scripts to autolaunch Chrome and respawn it if it crashed or got closed by the user. You can also include any browser plug-ins once they start making them for Chrome. Of course then you have to ask the question of why go to that work when Webconverger already does this, but with Firefox.
Brian Kelsay
-----Original Message----- From: Billy Crook Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:44 AM
I thought (assuming their speed improvements were real) the JavaScript engine they wrote will probably be useful to other browsers if nothing else. How long will it be until they start using our browser history to target ads... uh, I mean sponsored links!!!
Chrome is a beta, but I don't think you are testing their browser out. I think this is the earliest pre-release of be beginning of the Google OS, and they are beta testing users out. In a few years, the browser will *be* the OS sofar as "normal people" know. Heck, my family thinks I boot Open Office. Slap a slim kernel on in-behind Chrome, "cloud storage" and browser sync, a primitive hardware compatibility layer (oh I dono, using Google gears somehow maybe?), and it will do just what 90% of people want.