You actually can specify larger images to be used in your application
shortcuts when the user chooses the menu in Chrome:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/webmasters-faq.html#customshortcuts

In addition, you can write script in your page so you can offer UI to
create the shortcuts yourself using Gears:
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_desktop.html

Hope this is useful info!

-Ben

By default Fluid uses the favicon.ico file just like Chrome, but provides an option when you create the single-instance browser to replace with your own icon file.

It will be interesting to see if sites start to add larger files sizes to their favicon for this purpose.

The Aurora concept looks great.

These remind me of the concept cars that are rolled out for the Motor Shows each year but never seem to make it into production.

I suspect that there is a big overlap between the people who would like to use a browser like this and people who are comfortable using a command line interface.

The icon is actually part of the zip file I linked to.

You’ll notice that it’s a bit fuzzy over 128px – this is the best quality logo that I could get from the Xero site.

It’s an OS X icon file (so .icns extension). You may need to use something like this to convert to Windows format: http://www.gdgsoft.com/gconvert/macos_icons.aspx

I hope that the Xero guys won’t mind this?? :-)

I have a cartoonist and technical writing capability to put together cartoon based user manuals, cartoon books for you, lets talk.

Dean

Hopefully they will market their “supperior” browser to the general public better than Firefox has (not that their campaign wasn’t extremely successful in the tech-savvy audience).

I’m over that asswell. If its faster then FF and IE, i’ll use it right a way

Re diffusion of Chrome… I’ll be watching the stats too. They have a number of things in their favour: seamless switching, real-estate on the front page of Google.com (I’d be surprised if they don’t push it heavily there), an established affiliate network (get paid for every install that originates from your site) and a small army of people with AJAX-heavy sites that may just want to push browsers with the V8 engine for their own benefit. And they are releasing at a time when many people are (soon?) going to be changing browsers via a windows update to IE8 whether they like it or not. It might be surprising how many non-geeks make the switch.

BTW, you probably already know this, but your comment entry box doesn’t render properly – right side is cut off by the right sidebar.

It wasn’t really his decision to make. WebKit came out of Konqueror the KDE browser which was already open sourced. I always liked Konqueror when I ran linux as my primary browser – It was fast, accurate and it just worked.

So what was smart was choosing a great foundation to build Safari on.

Glen

(It’s meant to use Greasemonkey, but I can’t seem to use the Greasemonkey approach to XHR).