Actions speak louder than words. Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO , which has some authority around issues concerning the open web , think Native client and Dart are bad for the open web[1].
Also one small way to improve the search experience, is easy search in multiple search engines. Firefox's search box is one way of doing so, But it has been removed in chrome. Does it really improve the web ?
Does limiting the power of adblocking relative to firefox for example , really improves the web ?
Do giving better/faster experience for youtube and google(no data but few anecdotes from me and friends) , for chrome users is improving the open web ?
And if we talk about moving the web forward , privacy is one of the biggest issues the web currently has. privacy from big companies , privacy from advertisers , privacy from other people doing searches on you and privacy from being needed to show your real name publicly on the web.
Privacy is probably much more important than technical issues like current javascript speed.
Does google really help "move the web forward" on the issue of privacy ?
about the google sites speed its mostly all SPDY.
It's hack but it's a good one. Thus it's in Firefox Aurora. Enable with about:config look for stuff called spdy, til its on by default
I heard a rumor that Facebook will support SPDY, but Google supposedly paid Facebook to only support SPDY for Chrome users. I guess we'll find out now that Firefox will soon support SPDY.
This is not Chrome's purpose. Everything between the user and the monetization mechanism (advertisement) is strategic to Google. It just doesn't sound as warm and fuzzy when they say it like that.
The two statements are not necessarily in conflict. It helps Google's bottom line to move the web forward, and make more things possible through browser interfaces.
So close... add a couple more details:
- Google makes money from ads
- Promoting open web technologies reduces the stack they have to support
- Promoting open platforms removes roadblocks to reaching customers
- Supporting "competitors" that provide revenue generation channels ensures that even when the lose, they win.
Business is not warm and fuzzy. For that, you need to go non-profit. Look at these and you can see that Mozilla is really warm and fuzzy: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxlive/
Also one small way to improve the search experience, is easy search in multiple search engines. Firefox's search box is one way of doing so, But it has been removed in chrome. Does it really improve the web ?
Does limiting the power of adblocking relative to firefox for example , really improves the web ?
Do giving better/faster experience for youtube and google(no data but few anecdotes from me and friends) , for chrome users is improving the open web ?
And if we talk about moving the web forward , privacy is one of the biggest issues the web currently has. privacy from big companies , privacy from advertisers , privacy from other people doing searches on you and privacy from being needed to show your real name publicly on the web.
Privacy is probably much more important than technical issues like current javascript speed.
Does google really help "move the web forward" on the issue of privacy ?
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983430