Google Chrome Browser

Google have launched a beta version browser called ‘Chrome’

Why?

Well according to Google with the ever changing web, it is intended to be next-generation built for handling Web applications rather than Web pages.

So what is different:

Browser tabs get their own process rather than tabs sharing processes to solve the ever-dreaded freeze-and-crash problem, by freeing up memory and reducing memory fragmentation.

Each tab has its own URL box, effectively making each tab a browser window.

No about:blank pages. Chrome defaults to a page featuring the four most used search engines and the user’s nine most visited Web pages.

Similar to IE 8, Chrome has an “Incognito” mode to erase browser history when the browser is closed—something Firefox 3 didn’t include.

Chrome can be “streamlined” so that the toolbar and URL box are hidden and only the webpage is shown on the screen.

Chrome features browser extensions allowing it to make hybrid apps similar to Adobe AIR
An Opera-like dashboard start page and auto-completion.

OmniBox will bookmark sites for the user and remember them, but will also suggest searches and top pages the user hasn’t visited but are deemed popular. If you found a good site for digital cameras yesterday, you don’t have to bookmark that page. Just type ‘digital camera’ and quickly get back to it.Or click on one of the popular destination suggestions in the drop-down menu. If your site ranks for your keywords, Chrome will suggest it - IN the browser itself. No need to be using Google suggest.

It’s pretty strong on the security front. Chrome sandboxes Webpages, preventing drive-by downloads and installations. It continuously makes contact with Google to update a list of known malware sites in order to warn the user.

No word yet on how much the browser actually communicates with Google. Given Google’s history of watching everything its product users do, it wouldn’t be surprising if Google would gather browsing information to use for its search and ad-serving algorithms.

Not everyone’s convinced yet it will be an IE-killer—though kind of premature to judge that far since it’s not even live yet—as the world appears relatively content with what they have. Blogger Hank Williams, opining from the pessimism-guaranteed WhyDoesEverytingSuck? blog, reminds readers 25 percent haven’t yet abandoned even 2001’s IE 6.

The bottom line is Microsoft has been fighting the browser wars with spitballs and plastic knives and they are still beating Firefox handily,” writes Williams. “So Chrome, from a business perspective, for the forseeable [sic] future, is totally irrelevant.

Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows.” The crystal ball shows Arrington millions of Web and desktop devices to strip out the Windows layer altogether, making the browser itself the operating system.

Putting the hype in hyperbole, Michael Arrington is singing the Windows dirge song. That nifty new imported from Denmark JavaScript engine, he contends will make Ajax applications like Gmail and Google Docs “absolutely roar.” Combined with Google Gears, “Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows.” The crystal ball shows Arrington millions of Web and desktop devices to strip out the Windows layer altogether, making the browser itself the operating system.

Chrome is part of the coming shift to cloud computing. In this case it would appear that Google is motivated by something much larger than its congenital hatred of Microsoft. It knows that its future, both as a business and as an idea (and Google’s always been both), hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the usefulness of the Internet, which in turn hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the capabilities of web apps, which in turn hinges on rapid improvements in the workings of web browsers.

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