A New Browser By The Google People - No More Memory Leaks
Today is a big day on the internet. Google are releasing (in extreme beta of course), a BRAND NEW BROWSER called Chrome.
It will be available for limited use from 2nd September 2008 - that is today. As soon as I hear about it I will update this post with a link to where it can be downloaded.
It will only be for Windows users intially, but if you visit the Google Comic, you can read about the reasons why Google felt it necessary to release a new browser.
While it is exciting, it is still presents a major pain for us web developers. We have enough cross browser, cross version, cross platform worries as is. Now another?
The good points to note from the comic presentation, is that the browser will be open source, and will improve on past browsers making it more approprate for today’s needs. The most exciting element being that Chrome won’t be just multi-threaded, (where one activity can interrupt another), but will be multi-processed (where the browser will actually be doing many activities simultaneously (virtually)), in the same way that operating systems themselves behave. Now there is a leap.
The comic makes an excellent job of describing the current problem with browser memory leak and goes way further explaining many of the design concepts behind Chrome.
You can download Google Chrome here.
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