Using it for a few minutes, few things i really like.
1. Someone finally put the Refresh and Stop Button where it should be. Firefox actually had it during beta testing but they somehow decide to but it at the end of the Address bar instead.
2. The Graphics, Curve, Looks more like better then the comparatively toyish Chrome.
3. The Options have always belonged to the Tab Bar and not the address bar. To me i think that is the most logical place for it.
4. The New Tab drop page, I like it. But i am sure i have seen it somewhere else before. Opera? I cant remember.
5. Flash - Since Flash is only available in Chrome and not Chromium. I am not sure if Flash inside Yandex or any other Chromium derivative are using PPAPI or the old NPAPI. Anyone?
6. No, no tabs overflow...... So i am sticking with Firefox.
Arh. True i didn't notice it. But Once you click on the address bar it does show back its address. Not a bad thing i guess. Will need to use it more before i can draw conclusion.
Here's what I see when I visit that page: http://imgur.com/bwf5N (Tl;dr: a blurb of text saying it's not available for Linux, that's it, no info about what it is etc.)
Non-Linux peeps: do you get an equally uninformative landing page?
It .. doesn't tell me _why_ I'd want that. The footer (in fine print) states that this is a browser based on Chromium.
The rest of the site is useless (Oh, it loads pages. And is quick?) or scary (it has Kaspersky integrated, somehow?).
I'm missing the standard 'About' page, introducing me to the project and _showing me what this is for_. Why no Chrome, no Chromium build, Firefox, Opera, IE but .. this?
>4.1. Except when and if, and only to the extent expressly permitted by this License or by the applicable law of Russian Federation the User shall not be entitled to modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other activities with the object code of this Software with the only purpose of obtaining information on how algorithms used in this Software are implemented, to create derivative products using the Software, and otherwise use, or allow other persons to do so, the Software without written consent of the Rights Holder. The User may make a modification of the Software solely for his or hers own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications. The User shall not be entitled to distribute, communicate, make the Software available for the general public or otherwise use such modifications, except as for his or hers own use.
>4.2. The User shall not be entitled to reproduce, distribute, communicate, make the Software available for the general public or otherwise use the Software for commercial purposes (including for payment), including as part of software product collections without written consent of the Rightholder.
9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing.
9.3 Subject to section 1.2, unless Google has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.
How so? It looks like Google Chrome license is in fact more restrictive and yet you don't hope Google die, do you?
And I think that Google is on the liberal side when it comes to EULAs, compared to copyright monsters like Microsoft or Adobe.
And if you reason that true Open Source solutions like Firefox are the way to go, I may remind you of the IceWeasel scandal where Debian had to rebrand its build of Firefox because it could not distribute it with the required tweaks due to copyright issues on Mozilla part.
It's easy : chromium (http://www.chromium.org/) is the open source project. It's licence is open source and can be found at http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/LICENSE?revi... it looks like a "BSD with attribution" licence.
Chrome (google.com/chrome) is the "closed-source" distribution to loads of platforms (includes a few closed source components. E.g. it can play .mp3 files). It's got a standard closed source licence.
There are other distributions, for example "fedora" chromium, that doesn't have any codec support. There are versions that are not release-engineered (ie. nightly builds, but still released by some distro), ...
The question is, will this be another Rockmelt which was just Chrome with a social sharing and Facebook chat extension thrown in or have they taken Chromium/Webkit and re-engineered a faster/better browser and integrated their technology.
I really doubt Yandex is interested in competing against Chrome outside of their target market of Russia (and Russian neighbours, expats), so they don't need a faster or universally "better" browser. Just a better experience for their target users, or at least a comparable experience with better distribution (e.g. it's likely they'll partner with local device retailers to bundle it as default browser).
For those who don't know, they had a Chromium fork called "Хром" (literally "Chrome"), which they advertized for anyone searching for "хром" or "chrome". Then they renamed it to Yandex.Internet.
(Now that I re-read my comment, I think it can be interpreted in an offensive way. To make things clear, by saying "Holmes" I wanted to compliment you for discovering this information.)
Heh! It's funny how Yandex does (or tries to do) everything that Google does after X months/years/decades. It's just Chromium with their "Yandex Bar" which they have been promoting for ages, starting from IE and Firefox extensions. I also think it's rather silly to be based on the open source Chromium project and not support Linux-based systems.
* Yandex Search = Google Search
* Yandex Direct = Google AdSense/AdWords
* Yandex Metrika = Google Analytics
* Yandex Dengi = Google Checkout/Wallet
* Yandex Maps = Google Maps
* Yandex Mail = Google Mail
* Yandex News = Google News + Google Reader
* Yandex Market = Google Shopping
* Yandex Webmaster = Google Webmaster
They even made a conference like Google Developer Day and Google IO :)
What's next? Yandex mobile OS based on Android + Yandex Bar? Let's call it Yandroid :D
Yandex Search, Yandex Money, Yandex Mail and Yandex Market were there for a few months to a few years before Google launched their corresponding offerings.
"They even made a conference" - duh, everyone and their dog make a conference.
Download the new
browser from Yandex. It's quick and secure, while the
Smartbox will find anything you you need and Tableau
take you straight to your favorite sites.
I'm sticking with Firefox because Mozilla respects the Linux community. And use Yandex from my Firefox? Why should I make a compromise when you don't take my platform seriously? Thanks, but no thanks.
If they do nothing else but default the search engine to Yandex, that's what for.
Longer term, one of the benefits they might be able to offer users, over other browsers, is better compatibility with local sites, e.g. local banks. And maybe curated apps/extensions.
Well, local banks here seem to be compatible with everything plus Opera Mobile. Their web clients were developed not so long ago, when it was already unacceptable to have IE-only sites.
Have you ever tried to estimate how much it cost to maintain up-to-date browser, in terms of rapidly incorporating new standards, keeping high-quality, low-resource consumption and major-bug-free code, along with keeping it fairly secure?)
I think they grossly over-estimate their abilities to compete with completely different structures, like Mozilla, leave alone Google.)
Thinking that they are "Russian Google" is a self-delusion. Google is built out of talent, that they are collecting for a decade, and then by money and top-tier world-wide brand.
Yandex is mere a "company". Just compare the assets - data-centers, cables, commercial real estate, etc. Then take a look at amount of research Google's people do. This should be enough.
This browser, I guess, is something like Opera mini or Amazon Fire - the way to divert, scan and monetize user's traffic. Plain, banal scam.
One possibility "Russian pride". That might be wrong guess but there lot of things Russian simply to have something "Made in Russia" (e.g. yandex search itself).
That's OK. There were many engines before Google that were forgotten. It is completely possible that Yandex search for average Russian is better than Google but my impression is that it is not (my impression might be wrong). I know that there are some services that Yandex does better than Google in Russia.
I don't get your point. Are you suggesting that they should had shut down the company once Google appeared, and the reason they didn't is "Russian pride"? WTF?
1. Someone finally put the Refresh and Stop Button where it should be. Firefox actually had it during beta testing but they somehow decide to but it at the end of the Address bar instead.
2. The Graphics, Curve, Looks more like better then the comparatively toyish Chrome.
3. The Options have always belonged to the Tab Bar and not the address bar. To me i think that is the most logical place for it.
4. The New Tab drop page, I like it. But i am sure i have seen it somewhere else before. Opera? I cant remember.
5. Flash - Since Flash is only available in Chrome and not Chromium. I am not sure if Flash inside Yandex or any other Chromium derivative are using PPAPI or the old NPAPI. Anyone?
6. No, no tabs overflow...... So i am sticking with Firefox.