Comments on: Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support

Instead of waiting for Microsoft to tweak its Hotmail site, Google decided to tweak its Chrome browser.

[sukhijatt]

I would like to see google buyin yahoo.. that woud be nice...for the competition...

[divide_by_zero]

I think Mr. Shahine is correct, why go out of the way and drop everything to put out a fix for a browser with a market share of around ~1%. I would venture to guess that, that one percent is mostly composed of techies who have at least one other browser installed and probably use a stand alone mail client anyway.

While I'm a fan of Google, I think Chrome is kinda pointless. If they want to chip away at IE's market share why not just put their support behind Firefox, instead of releasing yet another browser? Yeah it's Google, but this just seems like an up hill battle that I doubt they will win.

[gamerstyle]

Got it and agree with you totally ;).

[queticomn]

Are you all talking of the in permanent mode BETA gmail. hA! I use both live mail an yahoo mail, much more user friendly. FireFox own chrome, an after hearing of MineField from Mozilla i tried it at it very fast but be careful if you try it its in alpha stage of development.

AS for users of chrome who claim chrome has growing ranks of users including bias CBC/C-net (same company)! Well look here,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Webapps.svg

FireFox an Safari are exponentially growing in market share. hA!

[cquick01]

Wow! What a dangerous precedent -- this practice is very underhanded! Google should be shamed for this type of behaviour! It's making me think twice about continuing to use Google services (and I use several) -- AND NO, I'm not a Microsoft junkie either.

Personally, I think MS stand is valid. I downloaded Chrome, tried it and had NO COMPELLING REASON to move to it. My browsers of choice... Firefox and IE. All others are wanna-be browsers.

[brian.lee]

This kind of thing isn't just a Hotmail issue it's the Microsoft mentality... Sometimes I think Microsoft has a mandate to only support IE. Before the current release of Hotmail it never worked properly on other browsers and it was always dog slow compare to Yahoo Mail and Gmail. At one point I preferred Yahoo Mail over Gmail.

Web Mail for exchange is the same it's crippled or broken on any browser other than IE

[ktswami]

Very amusing situation, but actually, not really. Now multiply this by 10 years and add in if you're a browser that innovates ahead of everyone else and gets copied...and then get little respect for their browser speed and open web standards efforts (to make it easier for all developers to support all browsers).

Welcome to what the Opera browser team & 75 million Opera users on desktop and mobile deal with. Check out the UA crapola that Opera has to send out to support the web site that give Opera the finger. Scroll down to "site fixes."
http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/

[carltonleesg]

The problem with Hotmail is %100 a Microsoft problem. They are supposed to be the smartest software company in the world but their own web site(s) suck. That is very telling. As a business the decision for Microsoft can lead to a loss of %30 percent and more of your potential customers.

[forever4now]

I got rid of my hotmail account and I avoid all other Microsoft sites, so I'm not forced to use IE.

Microsoft would like people to believe they have a browser choice, but they continue to make it as difficult as possible to function entirely without IE.

[drno7]

I never use IE 7 or 8 RC1, I always use FireFox 3.0.5..never any problems with the hotmail site whenever i use it in the browser, i mainly use the Windows Live Mail program for that. I have used Chrome a couple times, don't like it yet, as for Safari, it lasted about 5 minutes on my computer and it was dumped.

[rodigna]

i download the google chrome but when i used it in my inbox at hotmail doesnt want to open i've tried how many times but it didnt work!!!

[ffreds]

Are some people older than 1' still using the worst webmail available ?

I remember Hotmail way before it was bought by MS. I remember when we had our own free email redirection service (hot stuff at the time, one of the two or three first on the web ), Now there are WebMail services all over the place and people *still* use hotmail ? What's wrong with them ?

Sheep.