Google's Marissa Mayer on Chrome, New Web Browser

Sorry about my grammar.

I should also rephrase myself. Uninformed is a better word than retarded. It's difficult to be subtle in a second language.

The reason I'm venting is because of the Eolas patent lawsuit. $600m for copying European technology and then adding one feature.. also copied from another company. By that logic Windows Vista is liable to the tune of millions of trillions of dollars. And American IP would be valued at something close to infinity.

Opera used an MDI interface and Firefox copied this idea as a simpler tabs based system probably because it was easier to implement. Chrome´s automatically generated home page (the nine bookmarks) is also from Opera. As is many of the privacy functions like blocking Javascript redirects and alerts, popup blocking and cleaning sensitive data. Zooming and the download system might also come from Opera. I haven´t used every single browser version in existence, so I might be wrong about some of these features. Please enlighten me.

Today Opera is a powerful alternative to more common browsers. In my opinion Opera is more important than Internet Explorer. Sure, most business people would say that this statement is nonsense, but who do you think is pushing web standards ahead ? Opera or IE/Silverlight/C#/WPF/Word/Office/Visual Studio/WMV aka Microsoft ? And do you think cell phones use IE ?

The multiple process functionality is a result of Webkit crashing all the time, Web 2.0 using more memory than Java and because most websites don´t check for CSRF attacks. Google Chrome is a standard Microsoft move. Microsoft embedded IE into Windows. Google embedded Gears into Webkit. Other Web 2.0 companies where making Google look bad because of software crashes and Flash video ads running at 100% CPU. Google is protecting their own brand from the stink of failure.

Anyone who belittle Opera are retarded. Netscape is dead. Opera is still here. Go play with your pets.com sock puppet.

Of course the bigger elephant is that this is a preventative maintenance move because the new version of IE will not allow google to track your every move meaning loss of revenue.

You Opera guys take yourselves too seriously. If Opera didn't exist, absolutely nothing would change about the web for better or worse.

Opera is the BeOS of browsers.

Why is Opera always the elephant in the room? I love Chrome to death, but Google should give credit where credit is due. Many of the great leaps in browser functionality and innovation are thanks largely to our friends in Norway.

Kelsey,

This is a fantastic interview. Mayer offers some intriguing details about the purpose and development of Chrome that I didn't get from outlets like The New York Times or NPR. Thanks for the great video.

-Andrew