Gone are the days when the very mention of chrome and gears was the roughneck lingo of one’s insider appreciation of the finer points in automobile worship. Chrome is no longer the pinnacle achievement of one’s bumper. And gears are no longer covered in grease.

Today Google announced Chrome a web browser that runs on Gears. And when Google talks, we listen.

I haven’t had the chance to digest the full enormity of the announcement yet considering how fresh it is. At a glance there are a few things worth mentioning.

First, the Chrome site is down. Does that mean it’s a botched launch? Perhaps. Lots of grumbling on the Internets today about how Chrome will be killing Firefox’s market share in light of being a marketing partner for the upstart, open-source browser to kill the monster browser that is IE.

Second, Firefox is great but not that great. To find out why, watch this video (all 45 minutes of it) if you have a spare 45 minutes. In it, Chris Messina, the lead evangelist for Firefox back when it was not a household name (and thus largely responsible for putting Firefox on the map in the first place), laments that Firefox is losing its relevance because of competition from Silverlight and Flash. His argument is laudable because it puts to task something that concerns most developers who are working one web-based apps: namely the fact that it’s almost impossible to develop apps for the web without standards. Standards were the basis of Firefox’s early work and now … not so much. Being open source also does not necessarily mean innovative. So the rant below is also a jab at the workings of the Mozilla foundation which is becoming more a part of the problem than the solution. Alas, I digress.

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Third. The announcement comes in the form of a Web comic. It was written by the product team that built Chrome but illustrated by Scott McCloud Sleepers trailer , who is the guy who wrote the book on writing comics. If you’re going to do an explanatory comic, he’s the guy to help. I mention this because the announcement covers a lot of heady topics perhaps unsuitable to the non-geek among us. I think this comic does a lot to explain why Chrome is needed by heping illustrate (literally) how browsers should work. If you want to have google explain it in words, you can see their official (text) announcement

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Fourth, as I mention above the Chrome site

was down when I started this article. Now it’s back up but it’s limited only to a form for being put on a list to download the app when it’s available.

Fifth (I have no idea how many of these points I’m going to make, btw), Chrome is an offshoot of the open source project for the Mac called Webkit as well as Firefox. As the lone Mac guy here at the office, all I can say is booya to that. If you’re going to improve the experience of users on the Web, it makes sense that it would start with a Mac. Just sayin.

Sixth, they open sourced it.

Seventh, they put the tabs at the top.

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Eight, threading.

I am currently a big user of Prism Sappho buy and Fluid The Chateau hd

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Ninth, in the past mozilla with Firefox has been powerless (or reluctant) to take plug-in authors like Adobe and Microsoft to task for creating plug-ins that have inherent security flaws. Google has no such fear. Let’s hope they can introduce the public to this concept as well.

As I learn more about Chrome and what this does to the state of the neverending browser war I’ll keep you posted. Until then, polish your real chrome and gear up for more!The Spider Baby or Maddest Story Ever Told movie download