Re: Firefox to become adware?
Reply #57 –
Also, it's sad/funny how these comics can be summarized as "we looked at Opera, copied much of it and somehow made it worse in the process."
When Chrome 1 appeared, I reviewed it. To me it was clear what was good and what was bad about it. The good: They took Opera's interface and made it simple and common-sense out of the box, with more features gradually to be discovered by user interaction over time. Opera's worst problem was to push too much on the user upon the first launch. The bad with Chrome: They removed all configurability.
The title of my review: Dumbusers have a new default browser.
I suppose he means that "normally" (for some value of normal) separate windows would be separate processes and therefore it'd be harder to drag tabs around between them. But they still had to work around that! Unless all the windows are the same process and all the tabs separate processes? Regardless, they still had to deal with it in some way. He's just indicating there's a problem and they came up with one possible solution to the problem, and somehow that ties into the UI? Wtf?
I suspect that the multi-process architecture tied into the UI, in their minds, the following way. First, they think that the process-per-tab idea is totally awesome. The idea is that a hung-up tab can be killed without affecting the rest of the app. To emphasise the idea for users, they come up with the visually separated tabs in the UI and bypassing DE decorations.
All that would be justified if it were so amazingly revolutionising and mind-blowingly innovative that without those GUI cues the multi-process behaviour would be unintuitive for users. Wrong on all counts. What could be more obvious that I
can kill a hung-up tab and it in fact gets killed without crashing the rest of the app? Once the first noob excitement has passed, the GUI just stands out like a sore thumb in the DE.