Rumours / News / Unconfirmed Reports, etc

[Guest rsingh]

Made this thread so every one can put stuff up, News or rumour about technology, companies, etc

anyway heres one i stumbled upon.

Google's makin a browser

Rumours surround Google browser

Google hosted a web browser conference

The net is buzzing with rumours that Google is working on a web browser.

Online journals, or weblogs, have put together a series of developments which suggest that the search engine is developing new web tools.

A US newspaper has also reported that Google has poached former Microsoft workers who created early versions of the Internet Explorer browser.

Google declined to comment on the online reports and said it had announced no plans in this area.

New tools

Speculation about the Google browser has intensified following a news story in the New York Post.

The story said that four people who worked on Microsoft's web browser have recently been recruited to work at Google.

One of the new recruits to Google, Adam Bosworth, is thought to have had a pivotal role in the development of Internet Explorer.

Also now working for Google is Joe Beda who was on the team working on Avalon, the interface system for Longhorn which will be the next version of Microsoft's operating system.

Mozilla's browser is getting more popular

Industry watchers say the fact that the 2004 Mozilla Developer Day w

as held on the Google campus is also significant.

The Mozilla project came out of work at AOL on what was the Netscape web browser.

Mozilla has produced its own browser, called Firefox, that is enjoying a surge in popularity as increasing numbers of people and organisations tire of the security problems that plague Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

High-profile technology columnists and US government security organisations have all recently recommended that people stop using IE while Microsoft produces patches for the biggest security bugs in it.

Microsoft has also yet to decide whether to continue producing new versions of its browser.

This surge of interest in Firefox led to the latest version of it being downloaded more than a million times in 100 hours.

Google-watcher and web-designer Jason Kottke said Google's interest in Mozilla was significant for another reason.

He said the work that Google is doing on Gmail and Blogger show it is definitely interested in building software that more like familiar desktop programs rather than web applications.

"Mozilla is a platform that definitely lends itself to doing that," he told BBC News Online.

The experience Google is building by running Gmail and Blogger would also help any effort to build a browser, he said.

As a result Mozilla's work could be used as the basis for Google's own browser.

Free publicity

But perhaps the most persuasive evidence comes from the fact that in April Google registered the gbrowser.com domain.

Industry watchers speculate that the Gbrowser could refer to web browsing software or be a program that searches for music or images.

It could even be the public name for the personal search system, codenamed Puffin, that Google is known to be working on.

A Google spokeswoman said that the company had a policy of not commenting on rumour and speculation.

If Google does push ahead with the Gbrowser proj

ect it could cause problems for Andreas Schwarz who has created an image browsing program for Apple computers that has the same name.

"I've been planning on rewriting my program from the ground up for version 2.0 and have been trying to figure out a more creative name for it," he said, "so hopefully it won't be 'gbrowser' for too much longer anyway.

"It would probably work to my advantage," he said. "[People]looking to find Google's gbrowser may also stumble on to my program."

[smartsingh24]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife...ws_6108247.html

interesting info on the xbox, and some tidbits on longhorn :TH:

[simmal tree]

i started using mozilla and it was really great but then i got overindulgent in getting more and more add-ons

now for some reason it doesn't work on my computer and i use netscape

but i can't deal with explorer , hahahaha..

[SarabLoh]

just keep mozilla plain and simple ..... and make sure u dnt mess with any one usin mozilla .... evey hacker uses this browser as well... to fix it easiest thing to do is delete it and reinstal it

[TarunSingh]

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i use avant browser

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[theturbanator]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

mozilaaaaaaa is the bomb

just gonna wait now for smartsingh to come and brag about opera :lol:

[smartsingh24]

lol. U asked for it. Ur looking at the biggest opera fan this side of america. I loooooooooooove my opera. why? customizable skins, tabbed interfaces, rss newsfeeds, and customizable features. It packets information faster than IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and whatever else you want. it's got so much kool stuff, I can' even begin to describe it. Only forseeable drawback I see, is that it being a minority (IE being the majority leader in browsers), is that u have to reinstall all the plugins for opera, like Quicktime, Shockwave, and nething else you need, but that isn't a big problem, just a lil long-winded. Neways, everyone go download opera at http://www.opera.com

[Guest rsingh]

I hate IE for some reason its started crashoing my pc. I mistakenly clicked work ofline and it starts oping load of windows which i cant control and then a warning comes up to restart. :lol: @ microsoft is crape. they use the public to do the security tests on new software

[smartsingh24]

Try opera :TH:

[Guest vikramkhalsa]

Mozzilla is great...

just gonna wait now for smartsingh to come and brag about opera dry.gif

i was gonna say the exact same thing...