What Comes After Chrome

I imagine a browser that is more than just a browser — that makes it easier for me to create on the web, and easier for me to discover what others have created. I dream of the browser fueling a virtuous cycle between creator and consumer, and ultimately growing the web ecosystem.

Over time, I came to believe that the web computing model could extend beyond the browser as we knew it — and become the entire computing experience. A few years later, I was also overseeing engineering for Chrome OS, which embodies this idea. And along the way, I helped kickstart Fuchsia OS: web-like computing taken to a much greater extreme.

It’s hard to think of a better summary of the last 20+ years of web browsers — where most of the innovation could best be labeled as incremental.

The vision of an internet computer strikes so many chords with me, and connects back to what I’ve wanted to create since forever. It’s not enough to just be the browser that most people choose. We need to make the web computing model work better, and it’s going to take another step function or two to get there. To me, that’s about evolving the brow... See more

But, my hopes for web computing always felt limited by both the inertia of what Chrome already was (it’s hard to move the cheese on people), and by Google itself. A company that once oozed innovation now stood in its way. At some point, so much of our focus became navigating a sea of reasons not to innovate, for fear of causing users to see fewer a... See more