Nadim Hoque wrote:

Today Google released a new browser called Chrome (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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