Google Chrome: sleek, swift and safe… Three things that the general public are attracted to.
After reading about Google Chrome for the last week, in the news, in the blogs, in emails… it was time to try it out and see for myself what the multiprocessing architecture or “V8” Javascript engine really had to offer.
The results… I am a fan.
This was built from the ground up incorporating what has worked best for all web browsers that have come before it. The open source webkit used to create Apple’s Safari was incorporated with features also pulled from Firefox, Internet 7&8 and Opera.
Chrome has security features built into it to keep the browser and said machine safer from phishing and malware. Each new page opened creates a new tab. These tabs are sandboxed, and like a child’s sandbox these tabs act like barriers to decrease the ability for errors or intruders to spread from the specific application it is attacking… Safety.
Google Chrome’s architecture is set up for multi-processes, rather than on single-thread. Just like when we were children and we learned that building things out and up created strong structures so has Google. Past browsers run on a single-thread architecture rather than several threads. The multiple processes running allows the browser to find the links and display the pages much more rapidly… Swift.
Speed dial on page, similar to Opera’s speed dial, Google Chrome displays the top sites visited on its main page allowing the individual to jump from one place to another by simply clicking on the folder icon displayed. The easy to see and click visual enhanced by the speed makes surfing simple… Sleek.
There are still glitches and the Google team is working diligently on them, but nothing is perfect immediately…
