Google Chrome, a new web browser
Posted by Saulo on September 1st, 2008 in Technology.
Google confirmed tomorrow’s launch of Google Chrome beta, a new open source web browser that borrows the rendering engine from Apple’s WebKit and components from Mozilla Firefox.
An important design aspect behind Google Chrome is that each tab will be assigned an entire process instead of a thread within a process. This means that if a particular website causes the page to hang, only its tab will have to be closed. In addition, a task manager will allow the user to see which page, plug-in or web application is consuming system resources, a feature available in all modern OSs.
Google has published a comic that explains in 38 pages their web browser project.
How will this affect the battle for market share between existing web browsers? Will Google Chrome be adopted by Firefox or IE users?
Update 1: added a screenshot (found at TechCrunch).
Update 2: The Google Chrome webpage is up.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:22
Good preview. After 3 weeks of Chrome, I’ve come to accept it as my main browser even over Firefox. I still use FF maybe 40% to the time though. I have high hopes for it though I think it’s going to be a very tuff and slow road to the top.