Anyone else read this comic book-style "announcement" of Google Chrome?
http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/
I find it rather curious (but somehow fitting) that there hasn't been any other public statement about this and that the
http://www.google.com/chrome URL is 404. Way to go viral...
It's certainly an interesting take on application design. A few key points:
- Rather than dealing in threads, Chrome aims to deal in whole process management. New tab = new process, for example. This is a big change from the other mainstream browsers.
- Rendering will use WebKit. JavaScript will use a new VM called V8.
- Chrome's tabs will be on top. *gasp!*
- Chrome will have its own "Awesome Bar" for URLs that hooks into Google searches, of course.
- Chrome hopes to replace the "blank new window/tab" with a dynamic page that includes suggestions of pages that you frequently go to upon creating new windows.
- Chrome will have an "Incognito Mode" that's basically Safari's "Private Browsing" applied to individual tabs rather than the whole thing.
- Chrome will have lots of user-protection features including sandboxing, popup suppression, fishing detection, etc.
- All open source, of course!
