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Google Chrome: A web browser by Google
Whether Google is "the chosen company" to bring happiness in software land or is Big Brother itself, we can discuss. But we can all agree on one thing: Google's business is in the web browser. Nearly all advertisements and other Google activities are build in web technology such as HTML. While they were supporting Firefox as an alternative to Internet Explorer, Google had a little secret, which came out just yesterday: Google Chrome. A web browser by Google. Read all about in their announcement: http://googleblog.blogspo...resh-take-on-browser.html.
A few highlights:
A few highlights:
- WebKit rendering engine. Used in different products such as Apples' Safari. Originally part of the KDE project. Becoming increasingly popular.
- Tab-sandbox. Each tab runs in a sandbox, which means that if one tab crashes, the others remain operational. Also, if you log in on one tab, you're not logged in on other tabs. Sessions are tab-scoped.
- Tabs are more than just a web site instance. They're a browser instance. Each tab has its own forward & back buttons, its own addressbar and so forth. We saw this design in early beta's of Internet Explorer 7.
- V8 JavaScript virtual machine. A JavaScript engine built from scratch. Supposedly to "power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers". Sounds promising.
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Comments
By
Little_captain,
Tuesday 02 September 2008 10:38
Looks promosing : ), here is the link to the tweakers frontpage with an article about it: nieuws: Google lanceert eigen browser: Chrome
By
Confusion,
Wednesday 03 September 2008 08:19
At the moment there is only a Windows version available 
By
Cyphax,
Wednesday 03 September 2008 09:49
Reasonably interesting (referring to Google's browser), but I've become less of a Google fan after seeing how they treat their Adwords customers. They really don't seem to care to spend more than 2 minutes on you, which is spent writing you a notification your account's hosed goodbye-thnx-4-all-the-fish. Not particularly evil, but particularly annoying. Google's become one of those corporate giants that I care very little for so in all, I'm keeping at a distance.
mOrPhie I don't want to nitpick, but I'm going to anyway just because it helps you: "There a browser instance" - make that "they're".
Also, in "Each tab has it's own forward & back buttons, it's own addressbar and so forth", "it's" should be "its". The "'s" is a replacement for "is", so you've just written "Each tab has it is own forward [...]".
Once again: not for nitpicking purposes, but if you want to write your blog in English I assume you'd like to know about little grammar and/or spelling thingies.
mOrPhie I don't want to nitpick, but I'm going to anyway just because it helps you: "There a browser instance" - make that "they're".
Also, in "Each tab has it's own forward & back buttons, it's own addressbar and so forth", "it's" should be "its". The "'s" is a replacement for "is", so you've just written "Each tab has it is own forward [...]".
Once again: not for nitpicking purposes, but if you want to write your blog in English I assume you'd like to know about little grammar and/or spelling thingies.
By
mOrPhie,
Wednesday 03 September 2008 12:07
Cyphax, thank you for the feedback. I appreciatie it. But could you send feedback like that to my E-mail so the comments section remains ontopic? Thanks.
i'm currently "test-driving" Chrome to see if it's really that much faster than either Firefox or IE... in any case it will most likely be FireFox that is hardest hit by Chrome's release
By
Confusion,
Sunday 07 September 2008 20:53
Friday I happened to be seated behind a Windows PC and I gave chrome a short try. The JS engine is definitely faster than both IE and Firefox's engine (I tested using the demos at http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/, who ported an image processing language to javascript to make some very cool animations), but I wonder how it holds up against the upcoming new Firefox JS engine.