I never expected this move from Google. Since they were funding Firefox and it was all good, it was not obvious to me. Anywayz, Google elaborates on why they have developed a new browser. They claim that we use browsers to work on applications than browse through mere webpages, which is true in a sense. Chrome is to support these next generation web applications which will push us more towards the cloud.
I am currently writing this post from chrome on my XP VM. It looks simple and I really like the memory statistics they provide for each tab (processes). If one of your tabs is hogging your system memory, you can kill that tab and save the rest. This is kind of neat. They seem to have taken a multi-process approach than the existing multi-threaded approach. I was reading the Google chrome comic that throws light on the thoughts behind chrome and I somehow felt that this browser has been thought out like integrating an OS to the browser. For example this feature of killing a specific tab seems new to me. They have used webkit rendering engine which Apple uses in Safari and yeah by Google's Android too.
I havent fully explored Chrome but I think for Chrome to move forward strongly, they should bring in some solid security features. I havent seen any highlight on security features of Chrome. If they could innovate some good web security in terms of phishing, malwares etc, that would make a good mark. Fortunately or unfortunately, they dont have a mac / linux version yet, so I'll be staying with Firefox and probably use it as a secondary browser once the mac version is released.
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