Chrome O Some

The day would have probably dawned with alarm bell (ominous one that is) for people at Microsoft. Even the "happy campers and good people" at Mozilla would have been startled by the unexpected friendly fire that might send them to tough times ahead.

Google has announced that today they are going to unveil the beta of their next generation browser "Chrome". My hands have started itching already to download it & try it. For some well known reason, I think it is going to be really cool. Let us see. I am also little bit worried that Google is becoming the next monster.

I went through their Chrome comic (which is another innovation BTW. I went through it till the last page where that french-bearded manager was throwing out philosophies of why chrome. I could do it only because of the format of the introduction)

- For Chrome tabs have top priority. "Tabs on Top"
- Each tab is separate process.
- Google has built a brand new Javascript virtual machine to be faster, better and elegant (under the hood)
- Each tab can support multiple threads. They say current breed of browsers are single threaded for each tab.
- There is a "Privacy" mode in which none of what you did will be logged or stored anywhere in the client PC.

As Tech Crunch pointed out...with Gears+Chrome google will take over most of your online time and hence probably the world.