PS3 Might Be Getting Google Chrome Soon

The PS3 on launch was able to browse the web through it’s built-in browser which was a first for a gaming console. The browser was although very bad and many people just refused to use it, it was updated a lot in recent years but it still didn’t live up to it’s expectation. Many of Sony’s customers were expecting to get a proper browser like Chrome and now they just might get it.

A member on popular gaming forum NeoGaf recently explored the ps3-webkit-support.diff and found something interesting:

I’m going through ps3-webkit-support.diff because I’m bored. Looks like we’re getting Chrome Actually, since Geoff’s added a couple of files for ChromeClientPOSIX.

Naturally the full source of His changes are in that. Diff file also. From what I can tell, the only posix platform refers to the PS3 in webkit, It does not show up at all in the mainline source code (Unix versions are under Their Typically widget library like Qt or gtk). There’s a lot of Functions That Are not Implemented, but they’re Mainly Ones That involvement windowing That You Would not expect to be supported on the PS3.

Might this not mean much since I do not see the cool stuff from Chrome theses sources, like bookmark syncing, but it’s a freaking huge project., And only covers what the diff Needed to be changed so it works on the PS3. Might it not just get Chrome branding visible to the user, but I think if he’s calling it chrome client, we can expect good things for the future.

Source: PS3Life