There Is a New Browser on the Block, Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Google has officially entered the web browser market.
Yes, the company that seems to have its fingers dipped into almost every digital pie from their ever popular and robust search engine to their powerful and highly used email application Gmail. The Mountain View, California based company now seems to have developed a taste for web browsers. Quietly in the seemingly never-ending corridors of their home office dubbed “The Googleplex” a team of developers has been slaving away creating a new type of web browser, Chrome.
The Google Blog shared a few specific features with the exception following snippet:
On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.
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.
It seems Chrome was built completely from the ground up inspired by open sourced predecessors like FireFox but with vast differences. In an attempt to educate users further and clarify just how Chrome operates and what makes Chrome so drastically differently from other web browsers Google created a comic strip to explain just what it is and how it works. How Google.
You can view the comic strip here. Don’t worry; I will still be here when you return.
So why did Google feel the need to develop a new web browser?
I think Google has a passion for trying everything at least once. Not to mention a healthy dose of ambition, fueled by teams of creative minds. I think considering that amount of mini applications and full scale web apps. Google has rolled out creating a web browser was a logical next step. They already dominate how people search for content online, why not shape the way they view it too.
Google has taken a more altruistic approach in their explanation stating:
All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.
Personally as a web developer I look forward to new player in the so called browser war as long as the browser renders content properly and is standards compliant. As a web user I look forward to using a browser that is quick, responsive and secure that doesn’t crash from memory leaks.
If you would like to give Googles Chrome a try you can download it here. Feel free to stop back and let me know what you thought of Chrome.
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