Google Chrome

Big internet news today, Google has released their own browser called Chrome. How will the other browsers stand up? Google claims that the innovations they are adding into the new open source browser will help improve existing browsers for users and developers. Google explained the technology behind Chrome in a nicely made comic by Scott McCloud which you can read HERE. Here are a couple features of the technology used in Chrome...

Multi Process Architecture: The processes occurring in each tab of your browser are completely separate and occur simultaneously. This means that closing one tab completely erases the memory your CPU stored that information with... do you ever notice your computer slowing down after you browse in multiple tabs for a long time? Another benefit of the multi process architecture is that when one tab encounters a bug, it has no effect on the speed of any of your other tabs in the browser, so you can easily close it and continue browsing without hitches.

V8: Google had a team in Denmark build a virtual machine that could handle powerful javascript operations. Today web applications like Gmail require a lot from browsers and V8 is introducing the most efficient way of handling hefty apps.

For those of you who plan on downloading the beta that was released today (for Windows only... so not me), check out this video on 10 features of Google Chrome...