On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:13 AM, pauric wrote:
First, the Task Manager. By empowering 'average' users to first understand problem sites (sessions, threads, processes, widgets, plugins.. whatever you want to call it) and take more granular control of their tabs, it will underline the mutlithreading capabilities. This will in my view change the preceptions the time spent online as a single activity and users will start managing time in terms of parallel activities. Something not really feasible today.
Normal people don't use the Task Manager in Windows today. And when introduced to it, it's usually in the "bad use case" flow, which gives them a negative connotation of what it is. In other words, when they have to use the Task Manager it means something is broken. The only perception the Task Manager in Google Chrome might bring to the average user in my opinion is that the browser is now as broken as Windows is.
Developers, conversely, will now have the finger pointed directly at them as opposed to the browser crashes taking flak for their bad code.
And that works so well in the rest of the software world, doesn't it?
The second is the combination of the ability to pull out a tab to its own window and minimise the omnibar, blurring the lines between cloud and desktop even further.
How is this any different than opening a new window (via menu or right click or the code doing it for you) and removing the chrome? Which you can do and have been able to do in all the browsers for at least 8 years?
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