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Google Chrome

Google announced their new browser today. The announcement is greeted by plentiful yawns. But on a closer look there might be something to be excited about. Although this is probably the first time that Google is taking on Microsoft in their own territory. While one may wonder whether the world really needs another web browser, or whether this is just another tool for targeted advertising. Regardless of their motives, they chose to present their introduction with a comic book format for some reason.

Google is taking Microsoft head on with this one. Chrome promises to be open and free, anyone can take their code and use all of it or bits and pieces. Google is staking a claim on making a performance browser faster tougher and stronger. Chrome will be based on Web Kit engine which is also free and open sourced. The code is promised to be threaded and robust. Google claims that starting from scratch gives them the benefit of starting fresh with code intended for complex web content right from the beginning. Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox have root code that is ancient by Internet standards. Chrome also promises to a new JavaScript engine that apparently compiles on the fly and should be much faster.

With the promised improved memory management, threading and new JavaScript Virtual machine, even if we shy away from Google Chrome we will benefit from the new open source code that will be likely used by other browsers down the road.

posted by Ray L. @ 7:35 AM