Did you notice the “Create Application shortcut” link on chrome. I think that link is the key use-case for Chrome.

http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2008/09/coolest-feature-of-chrome.html

I already have 6 links created on my desktop(gmail , reader , analytics , adsense , google docs , and a GWT based app).

Knowing that each application is going to get its own process really makes me feel – that yaa this is an application

basically, Firefox (3.0.1 here) does little to assist me in offline scenarios such as the one described above. optimally, it would keep a cache not of everything browsed, but perhaps everything in the last 24 hours. this would allow me to retrieve pieces looked at in preparation for a piece even in offline settings.

as is, when i was on the plane, those pieces were unavailable b/c FF was in an “Offline Mode” and kicked me that error page. worse, i couldn’t even back through the session history on open tabs to trace back through a sequence of pages visited. this, again, triggered the “This page is unavailable due to ‘Offline Mode’ ” etc etc page.

what i was limited to, then, in attempting to compose a page was nothing more or less than the tabs i had open at the time. which could be improved, i think.

also, if i’d been forced for some reason to shut the machine down and brought FF back cold start, i would have been able to retrieve nothing.

that make sense?

Of course, not all the offline stuff we wanted made 3, to avoid guessing at how some of it would be standardized in HTML5. Firefox 3.1 will have a bunch more. But I’m told Firefox 3 should not do anything dumb (like hang on DNS lookups or attempts to refresh a cache) when offline.

Whatever bugged you, I want to make sure we fix for 3.1. Thanks,

/be

Write once, run everywhere really crappily, but one place exceedingly well == multiple internets.

By separate Internets, sufficiently differentiated user experiences from one “stack” to the next that the net effect is essentially different Internets. For example, as good an experience as Gmail can deliver in FF, IE, my bet is that the experience will be way better on Chrome. Maybe for example, Chrome will have Gears built in instead of as a plug-in. Users may as a result establish a preference for using Chrome with Gmail (and the other Google services on Chrome steroids). IE on the other hand is a better front end to some of Microsoft’s back-end services (as well as third party services). You’ll want Android to open your Google Docs, but an iPhone to open our iTunes.

That’s what I mean by different Internets. Sooner or later, the inconvenience of the experience differential will end up driving users to make choices. At the point that users start to make choices and those choices are soup to nuts (client to server), they’re essentially deciding between Internets.