Welcome to the world, Google Chrome

You might have to be living under a rock to have missed the launch of Google’s brand new, open source browser Chrome earlier this week; but you might be wondering what all the fuss is about.

So what’s new?
A new open source browser, you say? What’s wrong with Firefox? Well, Firefox is an excellent browser. But unlike both Mozilla and Internet Explorer which have both recently released new versions of their browsers (IE8 and FF3), without many obvious improvements on the previous version, Google, as is their way, have gone out of their way to innovate.

They claim that they wanted to create a browser which was truly equal to the current and growing demands on web browsers: for example video, gaming, and javascript heavy web applications. Perhaps the most exciting factor is the multi-process approach to the tabs, where each tab is allocatied its own processing power… which if it really works as they promise should improve the browsing experience hugely. Whereas in existing browsers a jam in one tab jams up the whole browser – with Chrome each tab works independently of the others, so that even if something has gone wrong somewhere, you can carry on with what you were doing instead of staring at an unresponsive browser in growing frustration.

Read More » September 4th, 2008 / Tags: chrome, google chrome / Trackback