For the meantime we are relying on Firefox to a huge degree to bridge the gap; but, there has been talk of perhaps moving toward the Chrome browser. Firefox's Prism, however, is the perfect web-app viewer and we've loved the ability to create the various necessary Google prisms where we decide a particular web service would work best in that way. The sheer number of Add-ons and given Mozilla Firefox has been an icon for open source makes me WANT it included in Ubuntoogle on that standard alone - there's that Ubuntu philosophy again. Besides, Mozilla is sponsored in part by Google aren't they? There is no hope of ever moving to Google Chrome OS, hence our name, although I see why that could be the perfect choice for the Nexus.
The kicker for this project also includes a pretty technical counterpart which I've been using for quite some time to show folks Ubuntoogle, which I hope you'll adopt and love as much as I do! It involves running a portable open source Windows virtualization platform on USB (VirtualBox) with the Ubuntoogle .vdi on the USB as well. When placed in the USB port it auto-runs and opens the last saved state of Ubuntoogle in less than 15 seconds. The saved state being seamless mode with Firefox already open to my gmail, which used the Integrated Gmail Ad-on so it has my Voice and Calendar right there. If I have their information in my contacts already a quick switch to Google voice, name find and a click calls me and then calls him for me and it just amazes people!
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