ot: browser

[Charles Jones]

Nadim Hoque wrote:
>
> Today Google released a new browser called Chrome 
> (www.google.com/chrome <http://www.google.com/chrome>). It is 
> apparently open source or at least has open source components such as 
> web kit and some Firefox things. Unfortunately it is windows only, but 
> they are going to release it on Mac and Linux soon, they just want as 
> many people to try it out. I am using it right now and it seems pretty 
> good.
>
I've been watching the development of Chrome with some interest. I don't 
think it will become a mainstream browser, but hopefully some of the 
ideas that they have implemented will be incorporated into other 
browsers. I think one of the best things they did, from both a 
performance and a security standpoint, was to make every tab, plugin, 
etc a seperate jailed process. This means that if something crashes, it 
doesn't hork the entire browser, just that tab. And if something running 
in a tab is hanging or using lots of resources, it can be throttled or 
at least you can now see what it causing it. And things running in tabs 
cannot access the memory space of other tabs or the entire browser. 
Also, since everything is a process, when you close a tab it completely 
frees up the memory it was using, so no memory leaks and fragmentation 
like you get with current browsers.

Hmm that was more than one thing :)
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