This Chrome madness has to stop. People complained IE had too much market share and with that came the “best viewed in IE” BS. Soon you will be able to replace IE with Chrome in that line.
On the mobile end, it’s even worse, WebKit dominates the market in such a way that one of the W3C guys called for it to stop; other browser vendors are gonna implement -webkit flags, which is so not good for the Web.
Google says it supports openness and all, but that’s only if it fits into its schedule. Chrome will have 40% soon (I know StatCounter and other sources aren’t that reliable, but you get the point when looking at their charts). The higher its market share, the more broken the web will be. The only competitor that can rival it is Firefox, but it has to have a freaking process-per-tab model (which they’ve been attempting for over 3 years now), a better UI (which will come with “Australis” or w/e they’re calling it) and maybe some other stuff I forgot but definitely those 2, since those are the things fanboys shout when they move people to Chrome; however, the pace at which Mozilla is almost doing nothing could end up being too little, too late. They’re sitting on this huge pile of cash and are implementing very little things. MAKE IT HAPPEN, MOZILLA.
Seriously people, you know this will heavily impact the way the Web will evolve (screw web apps, especially with more and more of them becoming Chrome-only) Get everyone to switch to Firefox or Opera or Safari, or even freaking IE (v9+ though). And don’t tell me to just have Chrome for “in case if” scenarios, 1 browser should suffice. Even with the cross-platform availability it has, I will not install it.
It comes with Flash (which Google is bundling to keep it alive since they need ads in YouTube videos, which is only possible through h264), has no 64-bit builds, I could go on forever, but this post is getting quite long already.
The whole argument of “it’s so much faster and more stable” is OUTDATED. Other browsers are as fast (0.1ms is NOT noticeable for the average user, and it’s mostly those people who are switching to it – for no reason!). And how many times does your browser really “crash”? (Doesn’t take away from the fact that Mozilla has to implement this though).
I’mma end my rage post now,
Happy browser switching! :)