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metaslugx That would kill Google's already small business model.
Most people still use IE, and don't know what a browser is. (IE and the Internet is synonymous to them, one and the same) and on the others side Chrome appears to be meant for more advanced users capable of trouble-shooting multiple processes. Thats not exactly a huge market.

tide I completely disagree. While it will be another year (or so--whenever an extension interface is supported) until I'll completely convert from firefox to chrome. The core ideas inherent in Chrome in terms of making it a more stable, savvy browser crush some of the firefox model. Chrome's sandboxing and re-written javascript-object model make it way more stable than firefox. Perhaps this belief stems from some of the more annoying bugs I've recently discovered in FF3, but I think it runs deeper. Google is not just trying to compete in the web browser marketshare, but with Chrome and Google Gears they are trying to re-invent the idea of what an operating system looks like by allowing their browser to let developers run applications offline. Moreover with the computing cloud become a more dominant component in everyday surfing, having some sort of desktop file system is becoming an old idea, fast.

It's true that Google becoming a browser monopoly is bad, but we have to remember that google has always offered it's services for FREE to users. The entity makes its profit by ad-sales and by keeping its model free to users to, it keeps more eyes open to ads. Google is making the web more individualized for the surfer, but more open and standardized for the developer, which is exactly firefox's model, but Google is doing so at a much more sophisticated level, in my opinion.

jayakumar What i meant is "this idea by google is bad"

G.L. See It may seems so, but think more carefully - Google's business is the web. What good will it bring to Google if Google products will only run good on Chrome? I don't think Google will go down to that path.

The reason Google is doing Google Gears is to bring the next generation browser technologies earlier to the current browsers, so it could take advantage of those technologies for its advantages. In other words, it's trying to standardize the features among the browsers. If Chrome is to only run Google products better, then it would be contradicting with the reason of having Gears.

I think in order for Google to maintain its status in the web, they will need to use Chrome to push the improvements among other browsers. So it is very unlikely to me to see Google products only run well in Chrome.