[Web4lib] Google Chrome (new web browser)

[Cloutman, David]

On the plus side, the decision to use the Webkit rendering engine may
ease some of the issues of a new browser entering our universe of
browsers to test against, as it is already used by Safari. What remains
to be seen is how much of a memory hog this thing is. Starting a new
_process_ each time a new tab is opened sounds like a very resource
intensive way of getting around garbage collection problems. I do see
some security advantages in this, but in theory is doesn't sound like
the best approach. I will be eager to try the product, however.
Hopefully my misgivings are addressed in the implementation. The
prospect of a Google browser is definitely more exciting dealing with
the pending IE 8 release.



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David Cloutman <dcloutman at co.marin.ca.us>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library 

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Subject: [Web4lib] Google Chrome (new web browser)



Looks like Google will be debuting a new web browser today called
Chrome. Here's something from the official Google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

There's also a comic book style overview here:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html

Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington, IN


      


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