Google is releasing a beta of its browser application, Google Chrome, finally. The scheduled release date is tomorrow (Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008).
Google Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine, which is currently being used in Apple’s Safari browser among others. I personally prefer Safari’s speed at loading pages, and I hope Google Chrome using the same engine can achieve same or better speeds than Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Also it seems like each tab in Google Chrome will be run in its own process, which should make memory leaks easier to manage (well hopefully there won’t be any to start off with).
The Google Chrome team put together a comic book outlining the development for this browser. Very interesting read.
Google Blogoscoped has a post on Google Chrome quickly listing a few features and also another post with screenshots of the new browser. Google’s official blog also has a post mainly for announcing Google Chrome’s release date. Yet another post on All Things Digital discusses Google’s tactical moves invading the browser market.
Google Chrome, Pretty good 🙂
it’s funny, the more i use Chrome (for windows), the more unstable it seems to get… crashes a lot more, can’t handle sites with flash, hangs every time i close a tab… all that to say, i’m switching back to Firefox
Chrome’s been fine for me so far, except for some JavaScript inconsistencies. The speed is great!
I am waiting for the Next version of chrome
I’m hating this browser.. Really 😛