Google Chrome, the fast and the furious

Google has launched its browser, Google Chrome Beta. Currently it is available for Windows (Vista/XP) users but you can signup on the download page to follow when Mac and Linux versions are available.

Like the Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast having a simple user interface which always is the highlight of Google products. The installer is available as a bootstraper and automatically install and run the google chrome after clicking on install button.

After installing it, don’t just underestimate it because of it’s simple design. Many of its features are not obvious in first look. The highlight of the Google Chrome as google have claimed are:

01. Open source.
02. Design from scratch to support latest browsing needs.
03. Simple and clean design.
04. Faster Browsing, faster Searching, faster Scripting engine/s.
05. Minimum loading time.
06. More stability and crash resistance.
07. Multiprocess support (A single process for a signle tab having multithreading support with in each process) with process isolation controlled by Chrome Process Manager (e.g. for script execution engine, plugins, email etc). This is one of the reason why it’s so fast since most of the browser follow the single process or single thread in a single process model where for example if a browser is running javascript can’t do any thing and stay idle until the script execution engine returns control back to the browser. Most of the time the reason behind browser crashes is a blocking call to scripting engine. Consider the situation where the scripting engine crashes or hangs and didn’t return back control to the browser.
08. It has a new feature called Incognito Windows. Pages that you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window.
09. It has a view source feature with syntax highlighting and line number with incremental search support.
10. JavaScript debugger and JavaScript Console with intellisense support for Javascript.

I’m sure by now you want to quit reading this and wanna try Google Chrome your self. So happy surfing..