Back in 2004, Firefox reached version 1.0 and quickly became the alternative browser of choice for people sick of Internet Explorer and Safari. It’s hard to imagine my internet experience without it now, but it’s good to remind myself that before 2004, all I ever used was Internet Explorer (scary, I know).
Anyway, I really like how this video looks as it recounts the story of how Firefox came to be and came to be one of the most popular browsers on the market. These days it’s getting some competition from Google Chrome, but for at least a while longer, it’ll be the king of browsers in my mind.
It’s been in development for what seems like forever and early versions of it have been less than satisfactory (because of missing key features), but it looks like Google Chrome has finally been released for the Mac. The release is a developer’s release so it’s still not final, but it’s pretty close to the final version. Bookmarks, history, and everything else in the Windows counterpart seem to be there. Get it now.
Over at the389, you can play around with this javascript scrollbar experiment that turns a bunch of scrollbars into waves. It’s part of the Chrome Experiments website which also has a lot of awesome fun javascript goodies to play with. [via]
Hey man, was just browsing the Apple website when I came across a picture of your website on the Safari page. Just thought I’d give you a heads up in case you didn’t know. Anyway, love the site, keep it up!
A Google employee named Scott went to Times Square in NYC to ask random people on the street what a browser was. It turns out that a lot of people think a browser is a search engine. [via]
The Google Chrome team and Motion Theory have come together to offer this very pleasant look at some of Google Chrome’s revolutionary browser features. All of the UI enhancements of Google Chrome are shown as colored blocks and it’s quite wonderful when paired with the music.
