Google Chrome
2008-09-03 03:55
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Google finally released Chrome, their new (and long rumored) browser yesterday so I had to take it for a quick spin at work. My initial reaction is that it’s a pretty solid and fast beta. Its biggest flaw at the moment is that it’s Windows only right now, but there’s a lot to like otherwise. Things that I like:
- Tabbed interface - every tab gets its own address bar and can be easily moved around
- Sandboxing - every tab/page is kept in its own process/memory sandbox and a bad page can’t take down the whole browser.
- Fast - javascript is blazing and this browser ran great on the old 1GHz/512MB XP machine I tried it out on.
- Efficient - memory management is really good.
- WebKit based - builds on all the quality open source work that Apple has done with Safari.
- Open Source - innovations should trickle down throughout the rest of the industry.
- IE 8 just became that much more irrelevant.
- Evan Martin - I’ve been reading this guy’s LiveJournal for years so it’s really cool to find out he’s directly involved in the project as a developer.
- Scott McCloud comic](http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/) - I can’t think of a cooler way to introduce the features.