Google released a comic book on 09/01, unveiling their new Chrome browser. Aimed to be a totally new way to do browsing, multi-threaded browsing. What does that mean you say? Well, you can read the comic book or just read the plain and simple explanation (although their’s is pretty simple too): For each tab you open, have it’s individual process, rendering individual memory allocation … not “hogging” all memory (but if you think about it, you still hogging the memory … just in individual processes). This is good in in the sense that your browser theoretically wont slow down because of a mess up code in a Java Script, Flash video, etc. With the multi-threaded you can also close down the tab that it’s causing the problem, with out loosing all the other tabs in the browser.

Few things that I have found wrong with the browser (Windoze Version), and it has been the way it handles the JavaScript. Here are some pics:

How it suppose to look:

How it suppose to look       

How it suppose to look

How it actually looks:

How it actually looks       

 

This is what you see when you are trying to view your “Mafia members” in Mafia Wars:

Another look       

 

How it looks in Chrome:

Before       

 

A few seconds later it shows

A few seconds later       

 

Though not fully finished, it still got some work that needs to be done (we all knew that!). I see some potential. The feature that really caught my eyes was the whole multi-threaded tabs, a new approach (that I know off) to browsing. For the time being, the MTT did work, did not show any slow down, compared to my Firefox, which is full of add-ons. But I can’t wait for the add-ons for this browser, really promising.

We’ll see how long it would take for this browser to kick off. I don’t think it would be long, since Google has a wide area coverage. We’ll see more in the upcoming months!

-F

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