Google launches browser
Google will today release its newest product in the form of an open source browser called Chrome. The release comes a little ahead of Google’s original plans after the company accidentally sent out a comic book-style media release yesterday. (http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&printsec=frontcover#PPP1,M1)
Dubbed by Google as faster, more stable and secure than alternatives, Chrome will likely re-ignite the "browser wars" as it goes head to head with Internet Explorer and the Firefox browser.
The other major benefit of Chrome, says Google, is that it has been built specifically for a new-generation of Web applications. In the comic Google says: "Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren’t just web pages, they’re applications."
Google says on its official blog: "Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers."
Google says that Chrome is built using components from both Apple’s Webkit as well as Mozilla’s Firefox. "In that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward."
Chrome will be released for Windows initially and Mac and Linux later, says Google.
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