The Gossip

I’m sure you read the New York Post story stating that they might be launching their own browser.

And some people scoff – “please. The New York Post? Like they’re a credible paper. I’ll believe that when I see it on Google Tuesdays.”

Well guess what….

The News

A little bird told me that Google has registered the domain name GBrowser.com. It’s a matter of public record. (Be sure to check my trackback links later for where I got this juicy little tidbit.) This was registered back in April.

My Own Wild Theories and Speculations

Honestly, do we really need a Google Browser? What would make it the best thing since Mozilla Firefox?

I’ll tell you what.

#1 Gmail in my browser.

How curse-word-ing sweet would that be? instead of a Gmail tab dedicated to Gmail like the one my work necessitates, they could have a sidebar, or give Thunderbird users special sidebar access that behaves like POP email which we can read offline if we so desire.

#2 A Google version of Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla could use the backing, and Mozilla Firefox is the best damn browser on the planet. It is perfect? Hell no. But they listen to their user base and make appropriate changes quickly.

For example, with version .92, my browser froze when I went to work on the beta version of one of my RSS Sites. Now, with version 1.0, I have absolutely no problems with it.

And it’s open-source – snatch up the code and make your own modifications. Or join the bug team and help them spruce it up.

#2B Easy feeds.

I’m a sucker for a creative man or a really smart one. If Mozilla falls under the wing of Google, that would keep me from the need to have two husbands and a fiancee.

Why am I so excited?

Mozilla Firefox makes feed reading as easy as Bookmarks. Here’s what happens. I have a folder called Feeds in my bookmarks. I browse to a site like Echievements.com. Well looky, looky, in the bottom left hand corner of my browser, an orange button labeled “RSS” appears. I click it and all the available feeds for that site pops up. i subscribe to the one I want (There’s only one right now.)

So far, sounds a lot like subscribing with a reader right?

Watch this.

I go back to the folder where I bookmark the feeds – and Mozilla Firefox has already made me a folder and fetched my feeds for the day AND I can click on open in tabs and read all my news.

In my GD browser. I LOVE this feature.

So what does that have to do with Google and a possible browser?

Are you kidding me? Picture this.

Google.

Plus the power of feeds.

Equals bliss.

What if, in my browser address bar, I could type google investment feeds, and I would automatically be subscribed to the top 30 feeds for investments, all in a nice little folder? If the top 50 sites for investments didn’t have feeds, maybe it could keep searching until it found 30 sites with feeds.

Google my love… I implore you to throw some money at Firefox and make this happen. I’ll be your love slave. I’ll plaster my entire site with AdSense ads. I’ll name our son Google junior. Just do this one thing for me.

Okay…. I’m back from fantasy land… sorry…

#3 The Google technology attached to my browser period.

If a site was down I could click a browser button and fetch the Google cache, if there was one, and browse that instead. If I was at a site before looking for a certain page, maybe Google would already have crawled the site ahead of me and I could Google the pages they found for exacly what I was looking for. I know, I can do all those things from Google itself, but at all times I’m either busy or lazy. Make my life easier.

I’ve got a dozen more ideas, but I have other news to get to – maybe a Google browser wouldn’t be a bad thing, maybe I’m overlooking some way in which it’s inherently evil. Why don’t you tell me what you guys think?

Oh, and don’t forget to check back when the Trackback link below this post starts to show numbers to see any updates and links I have.