Chrome The Latest Web Browser Technology From Big G

Chrome : Google's Entry Into Browser Technology

Google has announced that it will release an open-source browser known as Chrome. The beta version of Chrome is available. This browser is built keeping in mind the large user base which spends its online time mostly on Google like chatting , mailing so the motivation behind this latest browser technology was to provide the users the effortless web browsing experience.

This latest technology from Google has some really great features built-in. One of the most useful feature is that the web pages will open in tabs which will be isolated. Isolated in the sense that they will probably have their own memory space. These tabs will operate in an isolated sandboxed environment which will prevent the browser crashes.

This latest browser incorporates a very powerful javascript engine which will make the web browsing smooth less.New features will included "isolated" tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful JavaScript engine.

"Why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web," Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, Google engineering director, wrote in a blog post.

"By keeping each tab in an isolated 'sandbox', we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites," Pichai and Upson wrote.

Google has released a comic strip which describes the latest features of this technology. This browser has brought a radical change in tab based browsing.Normally what happens is that in tab based browser technology the tabs keep eating up the memory even when closed. Google Chrome has been crafted in a way that shuts down the whole process and frees the memory the moment you close the tab. This means fewer browser crashes and faster web browser.

This browser has a task manager built in which lets you see which sites are taking up how much memory.Google claims to have devised a powerful more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, which can power the next generation of web applications.Like OpenSocial and Android, Chrome will be an open source initiative.