No. This will not become popular.

On the other foot: The cloud is where the future is. And applications that backup share and allow for diverse communication mechanisms. (So things like Google Gears, Twitter, Microsoft Mesh Live, Windows Live, Amazon S3, Jungle-disk). So one way or another there's going to be apps that are going to be opening holes in your firewall and open vulnerabilities to your system. So you could always argue that why not lot let a browser do that for you.

Browsers are your primary attack surface, so do you really want your front line application to also have root access to your communications, Identity info, and personal files. I think everything has suggested that Microsoft, Firefox, and Chrome have sought to limit these. Plus there's what there not telling you that is most questionable.

If your behind a NAT/Firewall router on a typical broadband highspeed connection there's probably no way you could host applications (chatroom, Photos, etc) off your system without modifying your router's firewall rules or worse yet implementing UPnP (a horrible security idea). So how do they plan on marketing this... making everybody modify their router? What I figure is they do some sort of magic by making your system talk to their root servers and then relaying trafic that way. So you get into all these weird scerernios with do you trust them, what happens if you want to use another service etc. PUT IT MORE SIMPLY

Everything is going to the cloud. Because of dependability and flexability (anywhere anytime I have my data). Doing this really is going backwards putting your stuff on the PC (which could crash or die or be hacked at anytime).

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