I just finished reading the long article on Google’s Chrome poster by Andrew on the module blog, and I don’t know if it’s me (a huge fan of Firefox) or the way its been written. The only way it made me wants to read more was it gave me an insight on what a Google’s working environment sounds and feel like. Although I have used Chrome and it does excite me as a user by its speed and other tab dragging facility, but I don’t really thinks it helps the opensource community which have given all their efforts to push for firefox to overcome IE (check staticstcs here). They could have helped to develop Firefox alot more than what they used to or they should have made it as one of Googles money sucking products and stop playing on moral note that they have made it opensource.

The article goes on to talk about how in future Microsoft worst nightmare will become reality by making browsers work like platforms without the need for such platforms like windows. But I’m sure I’ve heard or read somewhere that Microsoft are actually working towards this idea and its not thier nightmare but a reality of things to come.

Without going to more details, I personally think competition is good for us the consumers, but companies like Google should be more honest with their product and admit that it actually serves them and their interest and not play on the moral aspect of making it opensource.

By the way, did they mention why they called it chrome?

Happy chroming everyone