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Old 02-09-2008, 11:15   #6
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re: Google Launches Internet Browser - Chrome

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Originally Posted by Rob View Post
Looks like this is developed for Windows only, at the moment - mac and linux users will have to wait a little while yet.

Wonder if it will support some of the plugins that only run under Internet Explorer. Some of the sites I have to use for work just will not run under Firefox.
AFAIK that sort of consideration usually comes down to licencing. Maybe Mozilla can't afford (or chooses not to spend money on) licencing certain MS plugins (presumably you're thinking about Activex?). Google, on the other hand, practically has a licence to print money, so acquiring licences to use plugins shouldn't be a problem, should they choose to do that.

You're right, they've developed a Windoze version first, which seems like a reasonable approach. I don't imagine we'll have an excessively long wait for their *nix versions to appear though.
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