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http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

Google Chrome is Google?s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of ?Google Browser?, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google?s Gears project.

The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it?s such an important component on the web today. Google also say they?re using a ?multi-process design? which they say means ?a bit more memory up front? but over time also ?less memory bloat.? When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome?s task manager, ?placing blame where blame belongs.?

Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar.

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This raises a few questions in terms of their support of Firefox and the like. As for it being the new "it" thing, it'll probably be a highly touted project for the open source community, should it be a decent piece of software. Any cause needs a few gems to show off the benefits of whatever it is they're preaching and, coming from such a large company, this browser will definitely be one of those touted gems.

I welcome the browser, btw. Anything that continues to drive competition and, thus, innovation, is good for the consumer.

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Reading what I think is their broad set of features, it doesn't offer anything that current browsers (latest releases, upcoming builds) can't already do...

Which begs the question...whats the point?

Oh, and Webkit? That'll go down well at the Mozilla camp...

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This raises a few questions in terms of their support of Firefox and the like. As for it being the new "it" thing, it'll probably be a highly touted project for the open source community, should it be a decent piece of software. Any cause needs a few gems to show off the benefits of whatever it is they're preaching and, coming from such a large company, this browser will definitely be one of those touted gems.

I welcome the browser, btw. Anything that continues to drive competition and, thus, innovation, is good for the consumer.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28/mozil...le-for-3-years/ - not really :)

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IIRC, IE8 also introduces 'process isolation' for tabs. But taking the OS approach of memory/task management for a browser looks interesting.

Oh, and having a usable WebKit-based browser for Windows is also a good thing. Safari isn't too bad but its UI still looks out of place on Windows.

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All the way through reading that, I kept thinking "Wow, I hope FF4 is this good" :D

Mozilla could always include the technology in FF. Maybe it could even be done as a plugin?

"The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it."

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