I’m going to keep this one short because I don’t have a lot of time and I’m short on energy for this here topic.  But it goes something like this, “Dear, All-You-Chromy-Whiners: Stop it.  You’re embarrassing yourselves.”

I said it once and I’ll say it again — Google is not terribly interested in entering the web browser business.  They do, however, want to ensure that their applications/services run quickly and smoothly in whatever browser their visitors elect to surf with.  Surprise!  So, along came Chrome, and just in time for the release of their _Android_ mobile phone package.  Imagine that.

So all these so-called tech bloggers shouldn’t be totally flabbergasted that the Chrome Engineers didn’t implement a bunch of tiny tweaks to enhance every single product produced by Google.  That wasn’t the point of the release.  Google is not a an overnight venture start-up dedicated to one product.  They’re a multi-billion dollar Brand committed to making money, which they do by selling adverts through online services. Correct me if I’m right.

AND, umm…do you get why there was no Mac release?  Or at least why it wasn’t a release one priority.

If Chrome catches on, demanding reasonable market share, and there is a need for further development, then Google will implement damn near everything that everyone is crying about.  But until that happens, let’s all be happy with the current EULA update and be about our merry ways.  If we really want to make a difference, let’s bang on the doors of our current browsers to implement all the cool features of crhome.  (You can get most of the Chrome features in Firefox already through Addons.)

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It isn’t very often that I come to you with one of my many Firefox Add-ons, but this latest one from Mozilla Labs is pretty darn great and you need to know about it.  It’s called Ubiquity, and the following video will give you just about everything you need to know.  Check it out.

They’re using it on a Mac, but don’t let that throw you off.  I’m running it on an XP box and so far haven’t had any problems.  Support for Linux isn’t yet available, but I’m sure it’s just around the corner.

Install Ubiquity.  Take it for a spin.  Let me know what you think.

Project Pogo ?  More like "why the heck?"  This is the new browser from AT&T, and I can’t figure out what’s going on here.  Perhaps just maybe I’m that dense.  (I’ll take it, if you can throw it.)  Why, I say, do we need another web browser?  Especially one that is so closely tied to that of FireFox ?  I’ve been using the product for over a week now (at home and in the office,) and I haven’t been able to see a reason to switch from my already favorite browser to this new beast.

I will say that it leaves a much smaller footprint on my machines, but I’m going to have to attribute that to Pogo’s lack of support for the many addons I have installed with FireFox.  I need these plugins.  (Wait till I tell you about SocialBrowse.  It’s good stuff.)  I really do need them.  And perhaps, just maybe, they do work in Pogo.  But what, or why, is my excuse for figuring out how to make them work?

Pogo’s big selling point is that its tabs are 3D.  3-what?  Exactly.  I don’t need larger tabs eating up my screenspace.  I can work them just fine in FireFox, and if I was really having trouble I would install the ColorfulTabs addon .  (It changes the colors of your browser tabs.)  It’s safe to say that I’m not having trouble.

Final words, the broswer isn’t bad, but it’s not great.  There’s no reason to switch to it from your current browser.  It’s nice, new, and clean.  But so is your current setup.  I’m sure.