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by gloob 6136 days ago
Please, exactly, tell me what a browser-OS is. Are we talking about something like Chrome OS, which looks like it will be an OS whose primary (edit: or even sole?) purpose is to run a browser? Then it's basically just a crippled version of what we already have. Or would we actually be talking browser-as-an-OS-properly, where some hypothetical browser decides to take up the mantle of process management, drivers, etc?

I don't doubt that lots of interesting things will pop up on the web. But "browser-as-that-thing-I-spend-a-lot-of-time-in" is very, very different from any sane definition of "browser-as-an-OS".

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Google is planning a OS but in the form of browser...

visit: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-ch...