Google Chrome

So Google has been at it again with this new very engaging project: Google Chrome, an open source web-browser with lots of impressive ideas with regard to stability, speed, security, standards and much, much more.

I have heard the site to keep an eye on today for a fresh copy is:
http://www.google.com/chrome

If you are interested, there is an nifty explanatory comic book by Scott McCloud at:
http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

In it, the Google Chrome project is detailed from several angles, plus you get to 'meet' lots of people who are working on the project. Their take was basically to create a browser which would be more in line with today's web applications (coming at it from a very different angle than when browsers were used to process plain web pages, with little or no: DOM manipulation, AJAX scripts, etc.).

1. Stability, testing and multi-process architecture:
   Using processes instead of threads to improve stability and prevent memory bloat as well as building on other Google tools to improve test efficiency.
   


2. Speed: Webkit and V8:
   Increasing speed and efficiency by using Webkit and a high-performance javascript virtual machine called V8.
   


3. Search and user experience:
   Changing the tab controls and their uses; introducing the omnibox, elegant inline completion and improved popup handling; improving user experience with a compelling "new tab" page which holds the most visited pages and search sites.
   


4. Security, sandboxing and safe browsing:
   Preventing attacks by sandboxing (jailing) each separate process and helping users to avoid phishing scams using up-to-date blacklists of harmful sites.
   


5. Gears, standards and open source:
   Using gears to improve developer experience, complying with standards (and perhaps setting new ones?), and of course sharing.
   

All of this really sounds very impressive, it seems Google is simply always that one step ahead of everyone else!

More news about whether this was all too good to be true, once I actually get to try it out, which I hope will be very soon :-)

Thoughts for now?