More Google Browser Speculation
Main News September 21st, 2004
Google hires some big guns from Microsoft and Sun
We discussed way back in May that Google might do good to make it’s own Browser… and signs are becoming clearer than ever. Just reported in many online papers, Google has done some high profile hiring in the recent days. 4 people who worked on Internet Explorer (one being Adam Bosworth), another one from Java lead developers (Joshua Bloch) and another guy (Joe Beda) who was working on future Microsoft technologies like Avalon and Longhorn. It is also notable that Google now holds ownership of the domain name GBrowser.com leading to more speculation of a browser from Google’s stable.
And well, with Google’s success with GMail and Search Engines… it seems that anything they touch turns into a huge success. However, browsers are a different breed and unless they go with an existing web rendering engine (our prediction is Gecko), it would be tough thing to do…
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[...] big news, which is actually making me going nutso with the kind of craze it is spreading. Google hired some big guns from Sun and Microsoft, got control of the domain [...]
It’ll probably be an IE shell like MyIE and Avant. The easiest, and google is most comfortable with IE. Probably something simple to start off, google bar installed by default, or integrated with the address bar, and a rack of google bookmarks to Froogle and such
See that that toolbar is still IE only
maybe the reason for that is that IE is used by around 80% of the people online and to spend considerate time period on a non-ie browser makes little business sense. i do recommend checking this software out…
http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2004/09/02/firefox-toolbar/
[...] AOL Building a Browser Firefox seems to have reignited the browser war. First, Google made headlines when it got hold of the domain name GBrowser.com pointi [...]
I doubt they want to spend time on an IE addon.
1. Google and MSN are now rivals, and may have to confront each other in the future. Then it becomes a sticky issue if gbrowser is based on IE.
2. The base (rendering engine) behind Mozilla/firefox browser is totally open-source and pretty advanced. And what’s more, its very fast to render - so basically it does its task faster than IE (and that’s something, considering that IE has the shot-in-the-arm of being part of the OS). Its only the necessity of being open-source and having to have an interface similar to netscape navigator, and the need to be able run even on obscure platforms (no, linux is not an obscure platform, think amiga/older mac PPC/solaris) that has crippled mozilla and forced such a slow interface on it.
So, just pick-up gecko, and put on a fast UI - add some features of your own, package it as Gbrowser a 1.5 MB download. :D
And *THEN* see the revolution it brings in. Exciting to look forward to, eh?
And no one would be worried if Gbrowser ran only on windows - much like the google toolbar.