"There are a lot of browsers available for the crowd that doesn't want a lot from their browsers," von Tetzchner argued.
Applecom.com is an easy guess: people mistype without the.com all the time, and a lot of browsers automatically add the.com when that is missing.
"What's exciting about this to you all is that when you think about building for the web, there' a lot of browsers out there that implement the latest web standards — that implement the latest and greatest web features".
As a result, there are a lot of challenges and inefficiencies in the interaction model of the web today, and we end up with messy things like assembling information using lots of browser tabs and windows".
We evolved in a habitat where short green grass provided evidence of abundant grazing mammals; pruned shrubs similarly evidenced lots of browsers; and open spaces meant we could see the dangerous lions, hyenas, and other predators.
Microsoft denies this is the case, noting that it has released One Note, a limited cloud-based documents application, for iPhone, and that Office Web Apps run on a lot of different browsers.
"I wanted to make this point that there are a lot of Chrome browsers out there," Fisher said.
"We had participation from lots of people: browser makers, privacy advocates, Mozilla, the ACLU.
