“I actually can’t remember why I have Google Chrome installed in my computer. Probably because I updated my DivX? I really can’t remember, it just appeared out of nowhere, kind of… “ John Lilly wrote about Apple pushing Safari installs onto users through iTune updates. Chrome installs via DivX seem rather similar to me. Where is the respect for the user?

Google, which announced App Engine’s Java support on April 7, has posted a list of the Java classes which App Engine applications can access. Simon’s right, surely? It only takes someone else to offer a different subset of Java classes and compatibility is utterly broken.

“the bottom line is that Firefox and its friends still give me a better over-all Web experience. And, when you’re like me and you need to find information quickly on the Web all day long, that’s no small thing.”         (tags: firefox)

Firefox support is free for everyone and powered by the Mozilla community, just like Firefox. Tenser scores ink! Eskilstuna’s own helpful rockstar on the SUMO project.

‘I don’t like the design of the Google Chrome.page. All of the toolbars I’m familiar with are missing, and I don’t even know how i got it. If I uninstall it, will I be able to get just plain Google?’ wonders Stellar. And so on and so forth. If you promote software as aggressively as Google have, you end up with users who wonder how they got there. How many Chrome users were not aware they were getting a new browser?  It might seem funny to people that understand what has happened, but I bet Stellar, and others, are not laughing.

I love this quote from Ian. He’s 100% correct, and we were all having those conversations. “To me, what Sun needs to do with OpenSolaris was obvious. And from some conversations with some people at Sun on an individual basis, it was obvious to the individuals. But collectively, large organizations tend to have a lot of inertia. And getting beyond that inertia was much more challenging than I thought it would be based on those initial conversations.”