How can the author claim Firefox is Google's ally? Does he not realize that Chrome is a WebKit browser? Is he completely unaware of the recent TraceMonkey vs. SquirelFish Extreme vs. V8 battle?
All Google is doing is telling its users like it is...There's a lot of advancement in the world of browsers, and Microsoft's not a part of it!
Fast JavaScript VM's are Google's ally. In the long run, TraceMonkey, SquirelFish Extreme, and V8 are all money-makers for Google. IE7 and Microsoft's slow JS engine is not.
> There's a lot of advancement in the world of browsers, and Microsoft's not a part of it!
Umm.... the benchmarks I've seen of IE8 show substantial (order of magnitude) improvements in javascript speed. They are still behind, but we should be able to count on a big increase in javascript speed across the board in the next couple of years.
All Google is doing is telling its users like it is...There's a lot of advancement in the world of browsers, and Microsoft's not a part of it!