Google Chrome: The future of Internet browsing?

More and more rumors regarding an internet browser release from Google, are begining to shape a realistic powerful tool, an open source browser called Google Chrome to rival Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer. What we’ve heard so far (can’t say if is true or not ):

The browser will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit, and will include Google’s Gears project. This is not all, also it will feature the JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it.

The browser will use a “multi-process design” meaning “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.” If web pages or plug-ins are using a lot of memory, you can see this in Chrome’s task manager, “placing blame where blame belongs”, just like the good ol’ Windows task manager.

It will have special tabs, not the traditional ones like in Firefox, placed on the upper side of the window and not below the address bar ( the ability of customizing those would certainly be nice).

We’re not done yet: Chrome uses an address bar with auto-completion features called ’omnibox’,and what does it do? well, it offers search suggestions, top pages you’ve visited, pages you didn’t visit but which are popular. There also a “speed dial” feature, just like the one in Opera. On that page you will see your most visited webpages with 9 screenshot thumbnails. To the side, you will also see a couple of your recent searches and your recently bookmarked pages, as well as recently closed tabs.

Chrome has a privacy mode where you can create an “incognito” window and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.”
Web apps can also be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar (Mozilla is working on similar application called Prism that it will do just the same).

Also they didn’t overlooked the malware and phishing issues. Chrome will constantly download lists of harmful sites in order to fight the evil. Google also promises that whatever runs in a tab is sandboxed so that it won’t affect your machine and it can be safely closed but if you plan to instal certain plugins, Chrome may escape this security model.

I can’t wait to see this “wonder browser” at work and who knows, maybe sooner than we think.

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