Saturday, March 04, 2006

Re-designing the browser ?

Geeking with Greg has text from presentation of Google's Analyst day. More than the concept of "Gdrive" what caught my attention was this little piece
For example: Firefox team is working on server side stored state but they want to store only URLs rather than complete web pages for storage reasons. This theme will help us make the client less important (thin client, thick server model) which suits our strength vis-a-vis Microsoft and is also of great value to the user
Server side stored state would be great and would change the nature of applications that can be developed and which depend on browser for delivery. But the biggest concern is privacy. Does this mean the browsing history would be stored on a centralized server? Does this mean, every user will have an online "temporary internet files" folder which Google would use to harness for personalized content.