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Cloud Browser: Enhancing the Web Browser with Cloud Sessions and Downloadable User Interface

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The web browser has become one of the most important and frequently used computer programs that people use. The web browser has effectively assumed the role of an operating system. Yet there have been predictions that the web browser and the Web itself will effectively die. More specifically, it has been argued that the web browser will lose the battle against native, custom built web apps. In this paper we predict that the web browser may indeed disappear but for entirely different reasons. We present a concept and implementation of a cloud browser that moves the users’ browser sessions and the user interface chrome of the web browser to the cloud. The benefits of a cloud browser are especially valuable to those people who use a plethora of web-connected devices, allowing the same web pages and applications to be used flexibly – and even simultaneously – from different devices.

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  1. Nokia, Visiokatu 5, Tampere, Finland

    Antero Taivalsaari

  2. Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 1, Tampere, Finland

    Tommi Mikkonen & Kari Systä

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), 139-743, Seoul, Korea

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, 30602-7404, Athens, GA, USA

    Hamid R. Arabnia

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sejong University, 143-747, Seoul, Korea

    Cheonshik Kim

  4. Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 48202, Detroit, MI, USA

    Weisong Shi

  5. School of Information Technology Engineering, Catholic University of Daegu, 712-702, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk, Korea

    Joon-Min Gil

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Taivalsaari, A., Mikkonen, T., Systä, K. (2013). Cloud Browser: Enhancing the Web Browser with Cloud Sessions and Downloadable User Interface. In: Park, J.J.(.H., Arabnia, H.R., Kim, C., Shi, W., Gil, JM. (eds) Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7861. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38027-3_24

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