Google Chrome
Google is coming out with a Web Browser called Chrome.
They’ve created a comic strip to explain it located here. It’s lengthy, but an interesting take on how to both move us away from the crushing weight of malware and how to make our browsing experience more useful and user-friendly.
If you don’t get the programming concepts, just move past them, but the concept they’re going for is that each domain (like www.livejournal.com), each individual tab, and each part of a web page (javascript, css, etc) have their own limited sphere of influence.
Anyway, other than the screenshots here, I haven’t seen the browser yet, but I’m really looking forward to giving it a try. If they use the same extensions as Firefox, I will be truly geeked.
It uses a new javascript engine as well, which means that (theoretically) all of the dynamic pages we know and love (like G-mail) will be scads faster, and won’t bring the whole browser down if they crash.
It’s supposed to come out today, so I’ll give it a shot when I can, and let you know how it works.
EDIT: In other google news, Picasa is getting a refresh that will include facial recognition technology – so when you tag people, it will start to recognize them and suggest their name to you the next time you upload pictures of them.
I hope that there will be other good news in this update. While I do enjoy using my Picasa, there are a number of things I’d like to see done better, so I’m crossing my fingers.
EDIT EDIT: Chrome is now available.
Ooh, yes, please please PLEASE give us a review! This sounds totally fascinating.
You know, Google already knows too much about me. I have no interest in posting better pictures so that it can eventually tie into a national face-recognition database and pick me out of a crowd shot.
Sadly, S already put our vacation pictures up at Picasa. I don’t think there’s any way to get them scrubbed now.
I think it is quite impossible for me to hide my face from any person or software that is determined to find it. Just like I wouldn’t be able to hide my full name or, likely, my social security number, honestly.
So, for me, google can do what it wants with things I choose to make public, including my face. *shrug* I’m just not that concerned.
Maybe I should try reading posts chronologically, like I normally do.
I’m digging Chrome, so far. :)