I agree with the above. Google Chrome feels extremely solid even for only being in the wild for a couple of months, give it time. Eventually, Google will take over the world...I mean, a plugin API will be created for Chrome. :D
On Nov 29, 8:34 pm, mooky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A 'finished' browser in 3 months? Thats science fiction. > Patience grasshopper ;-) > > There are plenty of basic, fundamental things to get _right_ before > worrying about plugins. They will come once the core of the product > has settled enough that they can publish a plugin api that doesnt suck > and wont change every 2nd week. It will take some time & require some > limited internal usage before it matures. > > In my opinion, FF may have a singing, dancing, toast-making 'plugin > system' - but since the fundamental things are wrong, the plugins > arent much good to me. > I could care less about plugins - Id rather the fundamentals were > right. > > On Nov 21, 8:51 am, "Cagri Ozturk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Google and the rest of the Chromium developers, > > It has been almost 3 months since I saw that "try chrome beta" link on the > > Google page. And it has been almost 3 months since I began using it, as my > > primary browser. And I think I'll switch to something else. > > > 3 months is long enough, I presume, for introducing a plug-in system. Yes, I > > love them, "new tab from selection" to "tinyurl" "stumbleupon toolbar" to > > "linkify", to "open selection links", "freedownloadmanager browser monitor", > > and the rest of the plug-ins and add-ons. They are very functional, and they > > save me virtually hours in a given week. For any of the functionality these > > and other plug-ins, I am sick of the necessity to launch Maxthon or Firefox. > > I managed to add some functionality such as mouse gestures via stroke-it and > > other alternative means, but I am really tired of looking for and finding > > unorthodox and often imperfect solutions to problems which should be > > remedied by a less lazy development process. We no longer live in the 20th > > Century, in which double-clutch cars or wheel-dial telephones were > > acceptable. Nowadays browser plug-ins are basic functionality, which Chrome > > still lacks. > > > Yes, it is fast, yes it is cute, yes it has V8, modular tabs, this, and > > that. But it is incomplete. And I gave it a try. And I waited for three > > months for it to be completed. At least for a date to be announced. Tough > > luck. > > > I am not very knowledgeable about the corporate culture and plans of Google, > > but here is how it looks from my point of view: > > > Google is a bunch of lazy geniuses, who create a promising product, and get > > bored, and move on to create another promising product without perfecting > > the first one. That is what happened with Googletalk, that is what is > > happening with Chrome. Instead of fixing the incomplete Googletalk, > > developers are happy to leave it in the year 2006, and shame, introduce > > conference chat and video calls to Gmail. Instead of fixing Chrome to give > > it basic functionality, Google channels its "creative" energy into changing > > the color scheme of Gmail. Yeah themes, that is what I was just looking for. > > Will save me much time. > > > In a nutshell, someone please create a googlegroup to notify people when > > Chrome, or plain Chromium is completed, and add me to that group. For I will > > not bother to check every now and than. > > > Cagri --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
