Why would Chrome save users from Windows when they already have Ubuntu as an unbundled Windows alternative?
If the Google name gets people who currently use IE to try out something else, that's a win for web developers.
Chrome is different than the other browsers in its slimmed-down interface, sure. But as other browsers, and the computers they run on, get faster and more compliant, the advantage that Chrome has over them as a client for web applications will erode. Apparently FFX 3.1 Beta 2 already has a faster js engine than Chrome's beta did.
If the Google name gets people who currently use IE to try out something else, that's a win for web developers.
Chrome is different than the other browsers in its slimmed-down interface, sure. But as other browsers, and the computers they run on, get faster and more compliant, the advantage that Chrome has over them as a client for web applications will erode. Apparently FFX 3.1 Beta 2 already has a faster js engine than Chrome's beta did.