Google Chrome OS To Feature Single Sign-In, Ban Other Browsers?

I personally look forward to being rather indifferent to Windows 8/2016/Aspen/Whatever as it manages to still hold at least 80% of the desktop market.

HideyoshiJP

@dallasmay: I can go without directx support, however I can't go without support for software such as Adobe products, since my job requires me to have it.

gantou

@dallasmay: Google has officially said that the OS is only for internet access. They aren't putting DirectX on it are they?

@.- -. --- -. -.-- -- --- ..- ... / .. ... / .-.. . --. .. --- -.: I guess I am less informed than I thought. :P

kidphat

When Google has a monopoly in operating systems, then and only then will the EU care what it does with their operating system.

asadotzler

isn't there an issue with anti-trust laws from prohibiting other software reaching the OS? My history is rusty on the Microsoft Anti-Trust suit.

@Zoolook: It's all speculation dude. Gah. You sit there and rip Google apart like they have announced they are doing this based on some no-name's stupid idea that because he sees a reference to a login manager, that they will restrict it to the browser.

Why would you want to change browsers? IMO Chrome is best!

ddaq89

Wow, you mean Google cry when Apple rejects their app... but on Google's OS nothing else will be allowed to work.

But that's OK right, because Google are not evil and don't exist to make a profit... they just make pink bunny rabbits and kiss babies.

None of this matters, I am sure Google will want 3rd party apps on their OS

Zoolook

I love it when people jump on the speculation and extrapolation train. Gizmodo's doin' it right.

@kidphat:
Oh but you can! I'm not sure but I thought litestep did exactly that. And otherwise there's a project called Cairo (if I'm not mistaken) that does it too...

That's about the dumbest thing ever. OS X's keychain manager is the same damn thing, and so is the password manager in firefox. It's a place to securely store credentials. This is just more idiotic, "ooh, google is eeevillll" posturing from internet attention whores.

matteric

@dallasmay: Well, the news here is the speculation itself. It may lead to nothing, but it may also prove to be true.

Now, you probably take a different stand but I think it's fun to talk about stuff before we know what's there. You must have hated the Cloverfield hype.

USB_Humping_Dog

i still havent seen any browser that really excites me, currently i use firefox, and im still waiting to see something evolutionary!

nikolask7

@kidphat: Shell replacement, buddy ;)

What if you want to change browsers? I think you don't quite understand the concept of Chrome OS. It's *not* an OS with browser, the browser *is* the OS.

Also, it's an open source project, and Google has already indicated it's going to need a lot of help from 'us', meaning Google locking this puppy down is highly unlikely (open source people tend to think.. well.. open source-y :-).

HeddaPigeon

This will be cool if it works for apps created on App Engine as well; even though I don't like the idea of SSO.

When the browser is essentially the OS, I don't think you would have any choice. Last I check, you couldn't change explorer.exe in any Windows OS.

kidphat

I'm still wondering what hardware is going to bother installing Chrome OS. It's pretty gimped from the get go.

I wouldn't care if Chrome was the only browser available if the addons were as abundant in Chrome as they are in Firefox. Once Chrome gets addon support as good as Firefox, I'll make the switch.

Twoje

RWW is epic fail from time to time. After (paid) bad article to (paid) bad article, I had to remove them from my RSS feed. Take what they say with a grain of salt.

@TJ: he meant windows isnt based around the browser.

glaeven

If its a non google app i guess it will just prompt for the password.

ploopsy

@USB_Humping_Dog: Because some people will believe absolutely anything. If Gizmodo posted a note just for fun that said "Google Chrome OS rumored to ship with a free World of War Craft copy" most people would take it as gospel. Just like this post. We know nothing about the OS. We don't even know if it actually exists or if it was just some Google employee spouting off. It has no ship date, no plan, no screen shots, no price, and 100% speculation.

dallasmay

That's some pretty radical speculation coming off of a login manager.

imaria

@dallasmay: Sheep? Why?

USB_Humping_Dog

@Steve: I think I know what you're saying but it didn't come out right, either. Windows is the OS so how can it not be based around...itself? Now I'm confused.

But that's not the point. Google isn't going to lock down ChromeOS. Legally, they can't since Chromium is open source. Sure, they can try to make it damn difficult for others to write installable packages for the platform (which they won't) but eventually there's going to be an alternative browser for Chrome which some people will prefer.

Firefox did it to IE. The same will happen with ChromeOS.

TJ

@gantou: How can you say you are going to pass on this without ever seeing it or knowing anything at all about it?

I will never understand how some people can make such snap judgements based completely on rumors.

dallasmay

I heard that no one actually knows anything about the OS. No one has seen it. IT'S VAPORWARE!!!

All software and hardware should be considered vapor until you can go to the store and buy it. People are such sheep.

dallasmay

@Scazza: No one would care because they "aren't a monopoly and have small market share" Just like the lame ass excuses apple fanbois make up when dissing M$ for bundling a browser while at the same time defending apple's right to create a locked down all in one OS

luciusad2004

@TJ: I think I know what you were saying, but it didn't come out quite right.

Oh and it doesn't make sense anyway. Windows isn't based around the OS like ChromeOS will be.

I thought it was assumed that if you were using Chrome OS you would be running chrome...

@glaeven: Why use Explorer if you didn't want to use Internet Explorer? Because, in time, there ends up being better alternatives.

TJ

@gantou: That and Chrome is not a full OS, just a mini one to get to the internet.

@Jux: Well seeing as it won't be something pre-installed as your only OS there could be a loophole for them.

@Jux: It's fine. The only reason they go after MS is because of how large their marketshare is: frankly, if Microsoft put out an exact clone of OSX right now, especially only on their own hardware, it would be blocked, beaten, and stripped in an instant. Apple gets away with it because of their relative size. Chrome could do just about anything they want and nobody would care, because it's just a linux distro.

Moonshadow101

@Jux: Yeah, if they cut of MS balls for being much less evil, I would love to see how they go after google for this.

Hasn't the EU sort of set the precendent on how friendly this type of stuff is? I don't see Google going down that road.

wanna change browsers? change systems. duh.

why would you use chromeOS if you didnt want to use chrome?

glaeven

As much as I love using google stuff I think I'll pass on this one, there are way to many apps that I use that I would miss. So I'll be going with WIndows 7

gantou

Yawn. Take it from a Linux hacker, in our world the 'Login Manager' is (shock, horror) the piece of software that managers users logging in, including starting the desktop shell. So if Chrome OS is basically the Chrome browser running on top of a minimal Linux system in place of the desktop shell, then of course the browser will integrate with the Login Manager.

And for those yelling 'Hypocrites', you forget the whole point is that NONE of your apps will run on directly on the OS, they will all be webapps running inside Chrome either directly off the web or via Gears, so you will still have free choice on the apps to run, but I seriously doubt it would still work if you were able to replace Chrome with say IE or Opera.

Don't think of it as your browser, think of it as your desktop shell. Want to switch your shell, OK I'm sure we'll find a way, but if it's mostly FOSS then that will be a doddle.

odysseus