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.
