sep 4th, 2008
checked it out, in fact am typing this mail from a chrome tab. not bad, but i don't find it extraordinarily better than firefox, in fact it's comparable. hope it won't take market share away from firefox. i did like the cartoon user guide which makes it sound like the browser is actually doing memory and processor management pretty much like an operating system. not threads, but heavyweight processes, and not interpreted but quickly compiled code for javascript. yes, brings back memories of working deep in the bowels of UNIX and lex and yacc and optimizing code generators :-) yeah, i can do a little tech talking myself still :-)
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Yeah, been using it since yesterday.Check the incognito window feature. I'd say alright, not too great!
I am following it since the weekend. There are several bench marks that are out are saying chrome is blowing both mozilla and ie8 out of water.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/so-is-chrome-the-fastest-or-what/
Also an interesting article why google thought it needed a new browser
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome.html
Anoop
Well, it seems to be part of Google's strategy to position itself not just to take on Microsoft, but also to make inroads into the mobile browsing market.
Chrome allows each tab to be run as a separate process. This takes up slightly more overhead, but it's also supposed to make it cleaner, so that something bogging down one tab can't crash the whole browser.
Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up
“Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser is beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to Chrome exploit code floating around the Web: First up is an automatic file...”
Am on it too ... it is simple, extremely quick & is just a week old. And the way it looks / works ... should grab a pretty decent chunk of the market.
And as you pointed out ... this is fairly dream come true for apps ... 'cos under the browser hood lies an "operating syste"
As for security issues ... Google will find swift answers ...
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