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Google's Chrome, Interesting Features

kensai — Tue, 09/02/2008 - 09:47

Google announced yesterday that they will enter the Internet browsers market, and typical of Google, in the pursue of building hype the announcement was made into a comic book which is available here.

Is there something special in this browser? Well, some of the things that make it special at least in my case, are:

  • Built from scratch, thinking of the latest trends and user navigation habits on the net.
  • Claims to offer better performance, security and simplicity.
  • Is not going to be single-threaded, and instead of multi-threaded it will feature multiple processes.
  • This will help the browser in the stability matter, if you have one tab open which is running javascript and it crashes, the whole browser doesn't as well, just the tab in question. And another benefit would be that closing a tab will give you back the memory that was being used by that tab.

  • You have a task manager, so you can monitor the CPU and Internet usage of each site.
  • Google can tests their browser on tens of thousands web pages
  • And, is Open Source!!!

Well, it seems quite interesting to see more competitors in the browsers war arena. As for Mozilla Firefox, it will always have its loyal fans, and those who are going to switch to Chrome (or more likely another Open Source browser), and for Internet Explorer, it will always have its loyal fans, and those who are going to switch to an open source browser. So, Internet Explorer is the one who can loose the most, that means no worries there then. :-D

I just highlighted some of the features, read the comic for all the details.

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Hi Eduardo, i'm testing

richerVe (not verified) — Tue, 09/02/2008 - 22:54

Hi Eduardo, i'm testing Google Chrome right now (I now is currently only for windows), is sleek and clean. I like the interface much more than firefox or IE, is very fast although i don't test big javascript pages. I like it so far and i can wait to have it in linux.

Por cierto, puede escribir en español los comentarios?

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Hey!

kensai — Tue, 09/02/2008 - 23:42

Thanks for your input on the subject, I did saw it performing at University, a friend of mine installed it and used it a bit. I really looks snappy and the interface looks clean and professional. I want to test it on Linux as well, I hope it performs well on Linux.

Bueno, los comentarios pueden ser escritos en cualquier idioma en realidad, pero para el beneficio de la mayoria de los lectores es preferible que sean en ingles. Yo diria que ingles debe ser el defacto para los comentarios, pero si no puedes expresarte en ingles cualquier otro idioma es acceptable. Para que existe Google Language Tools?

Translation:

(Well, comments can be written in any language, but for the benefit of the majority of the readers English is the preferred language. I say English should be the default for comments, but if you can't express yourself in that language, then go ahead and write in the language you want to. There is always Google Language Tool.)

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Efficiency

Leslie P. Polzer (not verified) — Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:52

I wonder how the manage to keep their separate process model efficient (memory sharing esp. comes to mind).

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you can test it on

ponto (not verified) — Wed, 09/03/2008 - 09:50

you can test it on linux:

mkdir chrome
cd chrome

svn co http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/depot_tools/linux depot_tools

cd depot_tools/
./gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src
./gclient sync

and finally:
cd src/chrome
../third_party/scons/scons.py Hammer

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Not for the end-user

kensai — Wed, 09/03/2008 - 12:00

The instructions above doesn't build chrome, just the chromium utilities, for the end-user this is close to worthless but for developers or enthusiasts might be worth the build.

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