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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Poulette. I'm
Speaker 1: an editor here at how Stuff Works, and I'm joined
Speaker 1: by one of our most fantastic writers, Jonathan Strickland. Oh
Speaker 1: pardon me, I was just browsing okay, like uh on
Speaker 1: Internet Explore. Oh well, Internet Explore eight Beta. We thought
Speaker 1: we'd talked a little bit today about web browsers and
Speaker 1: specifically kind of some updates that have happened over the
Speaker 1: summer of two thousand eight. It's kind of the summer
Speaker 1: of web browsers in a way. Yeah, I think about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of browser updates. Yeah, which,
Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty i don't know, maybe less than
Speaker 1: exciting topic for a lot of people, but you know,
Speaker 1: actually has brought a lot of advancements, right and considering
Speaker 1: that most of our worklies on Internet browsers for us,
Speaker 1: it's really interesting. So we're going to infect you with
Speaker 1: our enthusiasm and interest in this topic. I think I'm
Speaker 1: glad you said enthusiasm and interest. I'm glad that. In fact.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to Internet Explore. H ally, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this has been out for for a little while. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: you know it's uh, the newest version of Internet Explorer.
Speaker 1: It's got it actually has brought some some different changes
Speaker 1: colored tabs and wow, you know, but that can actually
Speaker 1: be pretty, you know, pretty useful in being able to
Speaker 1: figure out which piece you were just looking at you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a great one. Yeah yeah, we joke
Speaker 1: about it, but really, these these things that seem pedestrian
Speaker 1: do actually have some uses. One of the the updates
Speaker 1: in the Internet Explore eight uh really was just behind
Speaker 1: the scenes stuff that you might not notice immediately but
Speaker 1: will make a big difference in your browsing if that's
Speaker 1: what you use. Um, they updated, they improved their HTML
Speaker 1: reading capabilities and other markup language reading capabilities so that
Speaker 1: websites look the way they're supposed to look. Um. As
Speaker 1: the web grows and evolves, it's become a lot more complex.
Speaker 1: Like originally back in the day, they were all kind
Speaker 1: of text files almost when the occasional picture and if
Speaker 1: you're really lucky, a MIDI file that would have absolutely
Speaker 1: no control and you play over and over as you
Speaker 1: looked at a website, but now they're far more complex. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the web was never really meant to do
Speaker 1: what we're doing with it UM, so you know, it
Speaker 1: was originally used for basically for academic use and for research,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't supposed to have all these flash files
Speaker 1: and you know, sound files embedded in them, and e
Speaker 1: commerce and all these other things. So the web browser
Speaker 1: has had to evolve to take advantage of this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's actually, uh come a long way a very short time,
Speaker 1: just ten fifteen years. But so that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: where these updates come into play, is to make sure
Speaker 1: that you can actually you know, see and take advantage
Speaker 1: of all these cool things that people are doing, because
Speaker 1: if you don't update your browser, then you know, the
Speaker 1: browsers just browser doesn't know automatically how to access this
Speaker 1: kind of information. So that's that's what I E. Eight
Speaker 1: is kind of doing. It's it's updated so that you
Speaker 1: can see the best and newest stuff that's out there
Speaker 1: on the Internet. But there are a lot of other
Speaker 1: updates that went along with it as well. For instance,
Speaker 1: UM sixty four bit downloads that doesn't sound that exciting,
Speaker 1: but actually it means that now the Internet Explorer, you
Speaker 1: can you can download files that are in excess of
Speaker 1: four gigabytes in size. Yeah, well that's a big thing.
Speaker 1: That is a big thing, especially well, you know, we've
Speaker 1: talked about cloud computing a lot on here, but you know,
Speaker 1: as people store more files online and larger files online,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna see fewer software programs offered on
Speaker 1: the shelves of stores because they're you're basically going to
Speaker 1: put your credit card in and get your file download
Speaker 1: directly to your computer. Hey, you know, fast, easy, and
Speaker 1: very very large. So that's it. They're getting ready for that.
Speaker 1: When when we get into the point where where uh,
Speaker 1: entertainment is digital is through digital downloads. Like if you
Speaker 1: wanted to download an HD movie, that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big file size, you're gonna need a browser that's capable
Speaker 1: of handling that. So yeah, they are looking ahead and
Speaker 1: that's a good thing because I think, well, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: digital downloads are the future of of media distributions. So
Speaker 1: they're kind of getting ahead of that before. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't want to lag behind. Good good plan. So
Speaker 1: but there are other things as well, there's the in
Speaker 1: private browsing, which has another another common term on the net.
Speaker 1: Yeah you wanna, you wanna say, You're gonna let me
Speaker 1: say I it's horn mode. Ground wow. Wow, Oh I
Speaker 1: feel so dirty right now. Right in in private browsing
Speaker 1: just limits the number of cookies and tracking information. It
Speaker 1: really cuts down on all of that so that you
Speaker 1: can use your browser to look at websites and not
Speaker 1: necessarily worry about being tracked everywhere or someone Like let's
Speaker 1: say you're sharing a computer and well, well, let's not
Speaker 1: even talk about the porn. Let's just say that it's
Speaker 1: for something perfectly innocent, like I'm shopping for my wife
Speaker 1: for for an anniversary gift, and that would be that
Speaker 1: would be a legitimate use for it. Exactly a legitimate
Speaker 1: use for the in private browsing. I want to shop
Speaker 1: for an anniversary president. I don't want her to be
Speaker 1: aware of it. We're sharing the same computer. I might
Speaker 1: turn that on so that I can look around, and
Speaker 1: that way there's no real trail there, so she's not
Speaker 1: gonna know that I'm buying her a something. I can't
Speaker 1: say it because she listens to the podcast A right then, Okay,
Speaker 1: but you know, is it is it functional? What do
Speaker 1: you know? Have you heard anything about how that will now?
Speaker 1: Not the king, I mean there have been some Internet Explorer.
Speaker 1: It is still in beta, right, so it's got some issues. Right.
Speaker 1: Beta's test phase, it's not and it's it's none its
Speaker 1: final format is what beta means, So it means it's
Speaker 1: some things may not work the way they were intended
Speaker 1: to work. Right. Basically, when a new software program is
Speaker 1: UH first launched, it's an alpha phase, which means that
Speaker 1: lots of stuff is not going to work the way
Speaker 1: it's opposed to, and it usually is internalized. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's very rare that a company will will release an
Speaker 1: alpha build two external users, but it does happen. It
Speaker 1: does happen, and UH, but you're more likely to see
Speaker 1: a beta, which means that if you install this, it
Speaker 1: could you know, behave weird it could you delete your
Speaker 1: entire hard drive contents there, It could be completely incompatible
Speaker 1: with like three other programs that are on your computer.
Speaker 1: Or if you've downloaded XP Service Pack three and you
Speaker 1: have two of Internet of Explore eight, you'll have them forever. Yes,
Speaker 1: you will not be able to uninstall them, which is
Speaker 1: just one of those kinds of things that happens when
Speaker 1: you try out new software, which we do a lot of.
Speaker 1: But after beta, once it's it's passed through the beta
Speaker 1: stage and it's gone through testing, that's when they launch
Speaker 1: it publicly. There's no Gamma. I don't think I've heard
Speaker 1: of any Gamas anyway. No, there's just the Omega, the
Speaker 1: Omega build. Yeah, so uh so, Yeah, that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that that i'd heard was a problem with it.
Speaker 1: And I also heard um that the newest version of
Speaker 1: Internet Explorer Beta too, um actually uses twice the system
Speaker 1: memory and creates six times the process or threads as
Speaker 1: the newest build of Firefox, which means it's using quite
Speaker 1: a bit of system resources. And you probably will see
Speaker 1: when they finally release Microsoft finally releases the final version,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that they're probably going to take care of that,
Speaker 1: and they'll have to scale it back some because otherwise,
Speaker 1: if you have multiple applications open, you run the risk
Speaker 1: of either owing to a crawl or actually crashing your
Speaker 1: system as your computer says, hey, I just don't have
Speaker 1: the resources to run all the stuff you want me
Speaker 1: to run, or maybe your old just to your computer, go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I might have the little wily kyote moment and sweat
Speaker 1: drops over your top of your monitor. And and the
Speaker 1: reason we're talking about Internet Explorer first is because it's
Speaker 1: the most popular browser on the Internet right now, for now,
Speaker 1: for now. Part of that might have something to do
Speaker 1: with it being pre installed on almost every PC that
Speaker 1: you can buy. Um, I'm just saying, yeah, well, that's true.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't even know that they
Speaker 1: are alternatives out there, right so let's let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and inform them. Let's talk about one of those alternatives.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about the most popular alternative to Internet Explorer,
Speaker 1: which is Firefox. I. Firefox has its roots in the
Speaker 1: Netscape browser. If you're a long time Internet user, you've
Speaker 1: probably used a copy of Netscape and you might have
Speaker 1: thought it had completely gone away, Well, you know a O. L.
Speaker 1: Bottom a few years ago, and actually just before that
Speaker 1: Netscape release. They're the source code, basically the code that
Speaker 1: they used to write the program um the guts if
Speaker 1: you will, um to the public and said, hey, do
Speaker 1: what you want to with it. And Firefox is one
Speaker 1: of the results of that that source code release, an
Speaker 1: open source, free web browser and uh, this summer they
Speaker 1: had the Firefox Download Day when they released the Firefox
Speaker 1: three build. Um. Firefox three, of course being the the
Speaker 1: latest version of the browser as of this recording. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that this will go out before Firefox four comes out,
Speaker 1: since that would be record turnaround time. But they actually
Speaker 1: they had a Firefox had a Firefox Download Day where
Speaker 1: they tried to get as many people to download the
Speaker 1: browser within a twenty four hour period um as they
Speaker 1: possibly could, and more than eight million people downloaded it. Now,
Speaker 1: granted there was there was no pre existing record, so
Speaker 1: they set the record set the honestly say that they
Speaker 1: But Firefox three, Uh, it's it's got some nice little updates,
Speaker 1: which we talked about in another podcast. But we can
Speaker 1: we can do a quick rundown here. Um, the bar
Speaker 1: is awesome, Yes, the awesome bar. Yeah, the awesome bar
Speaker 1: is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, the awesome bar which will sort
Speaker 1: of figure out what you're going to try and type
Speaker 1: as you type it. Uh. I actually do like that feature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it took a little getting used to it first. I
Speaker 1: think I think a lot of people kind of resisted
Speaker 1: at first, but but it's it's not bad and it's
Speaker 1: in fact awesome, but Fairefox three. It's based on the
Speaker 1: get Go one point nine web rendering platform, the web
Speaker 1: rendering platform that that kind of tells you a lot
Speaker 1: about how fast your browser is going to go, because
Speaker 1: it's how fast the browser can can convert data into
Speaker 1: the images that you're looking at when you're when you're
Speaker 1: viewing a web page. Yeah, so how fast the web
Speaker 1: page actually pops up after you tell it to the load? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: It has, you know, a lot to do with the
Speaker 1: speed of your connection. This be to your processor memory
Speaker 1: and your computer, but it also has to deal with
Speaker 1: the software you're using to do this, and and if
Speaker 1: you're using Firefox three, uh, it's gonna pop up a
Speaker 1: lot faster than if you had been using Firefox too, right.
Speaker 1: And other things that we're new in the Firefox browser
Speaker 1: include security. Um, there's some more security uh applications built
Speaker 1: into the browser. For instance, now, if you go to
Speaker 1: a site that uh that Firefox knows has malware on it,
Speaker 1: malware being malicious software, a warning will pop up and
Speaker 1: tell you, hey, this is a this is a wretched
Speaker 1: hive of scum and villainy. I just thought they're a
Speaker 1: little star wars n Old school. UM. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: the malware issue, that's that's definitely helpful. And there are
Speaker 1: other ones as well that that tells you, um, you know,
Speaker 1: if if there's a security concern, it'll pop up and
Speaker 1: alert you. It also, um is proactive and alerting uh
Speaker 1: anti virus software about problematic web pages. So it's it's
Speaker 1: Firefox is really doing its part and trying to make
Speaker 1: the Internet a safer place. Yeah. And um and I
Speaker 1: have to uh to throw in my little pet browser
Speaker 1: project here, um, which sounds like I'm belittling it, but
Speaker 1: I'm not another branch on the Firefox family tree. It's
Speaker 1: never really from the Mozilla Foundation. It's from a group
Speaker 1: of people call who call their browser flock. But it
Speaker 1: uses the same source code and they have a new
Speaker 1: data out of their flock too. Um. The one for
Speaker 1: regular version is still on one at this point, but
Speaker 1: you can download the second version. And the thing is
Speaker 1: it's basically it's basically like what you would see from Firefox.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it has the same version of the
Speaker 1: awesome bar it uh. It also you know allows you
Speaker 1: to plug in add ons, which is actually a new
Speaker 1: thing for Internet Explore eight although that's still you know,
Speaker 1: they're still working that out in data, but you can
Speaker 1: add you know, customization to your browser. Um. But the
Speaker 1: thing about Flock that makes it so different is it's
Speaker 1: sort of a social networking thing because you can it's
Speaker 1: got built into it a chance to uh network with
Speaker 1: your flicker, your Facebook account, your MySpace, Twitter, and all
Speaker 1: kinds of other accounts, and it's built right in along
Speaker 1: with the mail. So a lot of the add on
Speaker 1: ones that you would put into Firefox are already built
Speaker 1: into the Flock interface. Um. So it's kind of cool
Speaker 1: and it's very very much if you've already been using Firefox,
Speaker 1: you will find Flocked to be very very similar. And
Speaker 1: it is also free, so you know, I just add
Speaker 1: that on because you know it works so well with Firefox.
Speaker 1: You know. Of course, there's Safari has a new update
Speaker 1: from Apple, and uh, you know, Opera actually has a
Speaker 1: new data out along the nine point five. I've lost
Speaker 1: track of which nine point five it is, but I've
Speaker 1: always enjoyed the Opera browser. It is also a free
Speaker 1: browser from a software company in Norway, and they also
Speaker 1: have browsers for mobile phones and for the Wii. Actually,
Speaker 1: if you have a Nintendo Wei and you access the Internet.
Speaker 1: Opera is a software you would use to that, and
Speaker 1: I think that's all the browsers. Wait wait, wait, first
Speaker 1: of all, first of all, let me let me just say,
Speaker 1: in the interest of full disclosure, Uh, Pallette and I
Speaker 1: have a fundamental disagreement on whether or not Safari is
Speaker 1: a good browser. But we were not going to tell
Speaker 1: you who who's who believes what? You aren't just gonna
Speaker 1: let me throw Safari. No, I wasn't gonna let Safari
Speaker 1: go with a wait no, I think I just took
Speaker 1: my hand. Think you all right? I'm not a big
Speaker 1: Safari fan. So that's why I have Firefox on my
Speaker 1: Mac at home. I do have a max so but uh,
Speaker 1: Safari actually from Apple does also use the Gecko rendering engine. Um,
Speaker 1: and it is. It is quite fast. A lot of
Speaker 1: people enjoy the fact that it is very uh scaled down.
Speaker 1: That's I think that's the one of the biggest things
Speaker 1: that Johnathan has a problem with is that it is
Speaker 1: very minimalistic. There's you know, afford and back and reload
Speaker 1: and pretty much it. There's not a lot of you
Speaker 1: can add add ons, but it's kind of tricky to
Speaker 1: do that, and some of them charge. You know, ad
Speaker 1: blocking is not uh something that's free. You can you
Speaker 1: can down download a free add on for Firefox or
Speaker 1: for Flock that does a really great job of blocking advertising. Um,
Speaker 1: but the best one I know of for Safari, pith Helmet,
Speaker 1: actually is a shareware, so you have to pay a
Speaker 1: small fee to use it and add it to your
Speaker 1: your Safari account, but you can try it for free.
Speaker 1: It just starts saying, you know, hey what, okay, fine, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying not to use a pun Okay, that's
Speaker 1: fine with pith helmet. I know, Okay, the temptation is
Speaker 1: too great. Let's let's well, so we are overlooking a browser, Chris.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised you haven't heard about it because it
Speaker 1: really kind of slipped under the radar. But recently a
Speaker 1: little web company by the name of Google entered the
Speaker 1: browser field. Yeah, I've heard of them. Yeah you might,
Speaker 1: you know, search around in your memory, you'll probably find it.
Speaker 1: So Google has come out with Google Chrome, a brand
Speaker 1: new web browser, and it's fast. Yeah, it's it's really fast. Actually,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of Safari in a way because it
Speaker 1: is very it is also it is also very minimalistic.
Speaker 1: It is you know, it's not fancy. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: lots of flashy stuff. Well, if you think of the
Speaker 1: Google web page, right, yeah, Google dot Com, it's it's
Speaker 1: sort of like that. It's very function this is what
Speaker 1: it's for. This is how it works right now, No, no,
Speaker 1: we should we should say that first of all, Google
Speaker 1: Chrome is in beta mode, beta phase. But then again,
Speaker 1: everything Google does kind of beta face. Gmail has been
Speaker 1: out for a couple of years and it's still beta.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that we'll ever see an homegap
Speaker 1: version of Google Chrome. But it's it's a it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's it's rendering him engine is the WebKit engine, right,
Speaker 1: So it's it's lightning fast when it's pulling up web pages.
Speaker 1: It's you know, if your connection is good, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a fast browsing experience with Google Chrome. Now, there
Speaker 1: have been people who have reported that not every web
Speaker 1: page loads or displays correctly, but it is still in beta.
Speaker 1: It's a brand new browser, and and they actually had
Speaker 1: to release it a little ahead of schedule because information
Speaker 1: about the browser leaked out, which it's actually amazing it
Speaker 1: it took so long to leak out because they've been
Speaker 1: working on this for a couple of years and no
Speaker 1: one had heard of this at all until September one
Speaker 1: of two thousand and eight, and then suddenly it's all
Speaker 1: over the internet and everyone has to have it. And
Speaker 1: they on September two, they held a press conference. Google
Speaker 1: held a press conference, and in the middle of the
Speaker 1: press conference, Google Chrome went live. Um. I downloaded Google
Speaker 1: Chrome as the press conference was going on. Installed that.
Speaker 1: The whole thing took maybe a minute and watch the
Speaker 1: second half of the press conference on Google Chrome. It
Speaker 1: was so fast. Didn't it didn't crash, didn't have any
Speaker 1: problems like that, and uh, it's got some neat features. Um.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites is you know, often when I
Speaker 1: when I get a browser, the very first thing I'll
Speaker 1: do is I'll change the homepage. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: want the generic homepage usually. But Google Chrome what it
Speaker 1: does is for its generic homepage, it pulls up nine
Speaker 1: sites that you visit the most and presents them in thumbnail. Uh,
Speaker 1: in three rows of three, and you can see the
Speaker 1: thumbnails all in one view. And you can click on
Speaker 1: any of those nine and go straight to that, So
Speaker 1: you don't you're not limited to one homepage. You now
Speaker 1: have nine home pages right there, and it's the nine
Speaker 1: sites you go to the most I can tell you've
Speaker 1: never used Opera. No, I have not used Opera. The
Speaker 1: most recent version of Opera has a similar feature where
Speaker 1: you can but you actually can tell it which ones
Speaker 1: you want to. Yeah, you can. You can fiddle with
Speaker 1: the Google ones. Okay, so you can actually tell yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to. You have to kind of dig around
Speaker 1: a little bit. The underneat thing is that in Google
Speaker 1: the Google Chrome, it's tabbed browsing, just like with Internet
Speaker 1: Explorer and Firefox, but each tab is its own process,
Speaker 1: which means that there's this that if you close one,
Speaker 1: if one's giving you a lot of trouble, you can
Speaker 1: actually pull up a tab organizer, see which tab is
Speaker 1: really draining your resources and close it without affecting the
Speaker 1: rest of your browsing experience, and you should see a
Speaker 1: market improvement in in system performance overall, like with Firefox,
Speaker 1: Internet Explorer, the older versions. Anyway, you couldn't necessarily do that.
Speaker 1: You you'd be browsing and suddenly everything slows down. You're
Speaker 1: not sure which tab is causing the problems, like with Firefox.
Speaker 1: It was usually if it had a lot of flash
Speaker 1: on it. Flash pages cause Firefox issues. Um Sometimes you
Speaker 1: can only play like the first couple of seconds of
Speaker 1: a flash video and it just stops. And it's because
Speaker 1: there's too much flash on the page and it just
Speaker 1: can't process it. Um and And both Internet Explorer and
Speaker 1: Firefox also had problems with memory leaking, where you know,
Speaker 1: the more tabs who had opened, the more memory it
Speaker 1: was consuming, and eventually your your system would grind to
Speaker 1: a halt if you were browsing all day long. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Firefox too, you know, had a huge Yeah. Yeah, Firefox
Speaker 1: three is is better. It's it's not perfect, but it's
Speaker 1: much better than it used to be. Well, Google Chrome
Speaker 1: is trying to address those issues head on. And also
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of meant to be a platform for
Speaker 1: all the Google apps and web based applications that are
Speaker 1: out there. It's it's kind of they built it with
Speaker 1: the thought that the Internet has evolved and that we're
Speaker 1: moving to this cloud computing model. Why we just love
Speaker 1: saying that, don't we. But we're moving to this cloud
Speaker 1: computing model where everything's on the Internet, So that means
Speaker 1: the browser has to be robust enough to be able
Speaker 1: to handle these kind of applications, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: what Google Chrome is supposed to be. But the uh
Speaker 1: that actually brings up a web content brings up the
Speaker 1: problem that most people have had with it. And I'll
Speaker 1: quote here a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty free, and non
Speaker 1: exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modified, translate, published, publicly, performed, publicly, desplate, display,
Speaker 1: and distribute any content which you submit, post, or display
Speaker 1: on or through Google Chrome. Why would you have a
Speaker 1: problem with that? Well, why do you hate America? Well,
Speaker 1: this language actually came from the original version of the
Speaker 1: End User License Agreement or LA that came along with
Speaker 1: Google Chrome. So if you downloaded Google Chrome during the
Speaker 1: press release announcement and installed it without looking at this,
Speaker 1: you might have gone back and gone, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: what did I just say that I could allow Google
Speaker 1: to do with my content? Are you suggesting that I
Speaker 1: didn't read the entire LA before? I don't, Well, you'd
Speaker 1: be right. I I didn't know. I didn't know, and
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't a lot. But the
Speaker 1: people like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, they had yeah, and
Speaker 1: they had a problem with this because um they said
Speaker 1: that what what Google meant by this was, hey, we
Speaker 1: own all your content. Anything you post through this this
Speaker 1: web browser belongs to us. Um And as one lawyer
Speaker 1: pointed out, it could actually violate the terms of your
Speaker 1: employment agreement with your company if you were to say,
Speaker 1: go to your web mail program and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: send email and you're not supposed to share your email
Speaker 1: with anybody else. Basically you're saying, I own the rights
Speaker 1: to my email. Well, if you're using your company email,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't. So you know, there there were some issues.
Speaker 1: Now Google has backed off of that and they said,
Speaker 1: you know, this is not what we meant. We're just
Speaker 1: saying anything you we want to be able to display
Speaker 1: the information that you were saying. So if you post
Speaker 1: to your blog using Chrome, you're saying, it's okay for
Speaker 1: us to take this inform put it on your blog. Right.
Speaker 1: But so many people have caused a stink. I've read
Speaker 1: that Google has said, Okay, okay, well, this isn't what
Speaker 1: we meant. Let's clarify that. Yeah, the Internet's really made
Speaker 1: made the whole intellectual property uh argument much more complex,
Speaker 1: and we're probably going to see a lot more of
Speaker 1: these kind of little hiccups down the road, possibly from Google,
Speaker 1: which uh and other companies as well. Right, you know,
Speaker 1: do I need to scare you? Hey, so far he's
Speaker 1: got a new update. You didn't even ask for it.
Speaker 1: There we got that'll work. Um, but I guess, uh,
Speaker 1: I guess that's a good round up for the web browsers,
Speaker 1: don't you think. I'm sure that by the time this
Speaker 1: goes alive, someone else will have come out with anybody.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, there's no doubt. I mean, well, and it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if if Google Chrome will have
Speaker 1: any staying power or well, there's such they've got such
Speaker 1: backing that it's uh, you know a lot of people
Speaker 1: have been asking, especially the Mozilla Foundation. They're saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think is this going to
Speaker 1: take you guys out? And uh, you know, to their
Speaker 1: credit they've said, well, you know, bring it on. Well
Speaker 1: not only that, but I think I think it will
Speaker 1: push for innovation and all the other browsers as well,
Speaker 1: and then we may we may see that you know,
Speaker 1: all browsers are supporting this kind of web based application
Speaker 1: model and they move away from being browsers into more
Speaker 1: like web based operating systems, and uh, I think that
Speaker 1: that would suit Google just fine. Well, I guess that
Speaker 1: wraps this up. If you'd like to learn more, you
Speaker 1: can read our article on how Firefox works. We also
Speaker 1: have articles on the other browser systems. We will soon
Speaker 1: have an article on Google Chrome, and that's all going
Speaker 1: to be on how stuff Works dot com. Now stay
Speaker 1: with us to find out which of our articles Google
Speaker 1: is really interested in. So it turns out one of
Speaker 1: our articles um actually makes a cameo appearance in a
Speaker 1: recent Google document. Really that well, the you know, we
Speaker 1: were talking about Google Chrome, and one of the ways
Speaker 1: that Google announced Google Chrome was they released a comic
Speaker 1: book which went into great to tail about the browser
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Speaker 1: nineteen of this comic there's an illustration of a couple
Speaker 1: of different screens. It is supposed to show tabbed browsing.
Speaker 1: One of those shows a How Stuff Works article Why
Speaker 1: do Kangaroos Hop? So, if you want to find out
Speaker 1: why Google is so excited about this article, I suggest
Speaker 1: you go to how Stuff Works and you read why
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