{"id":4761,"date":"2008-09-11T22:08:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/is-googles-chrome-browser-the-browser-for-future\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T22:08:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T03:08:43","slug":"is-googles-chrome-browser-the-browser-for-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=4761","title":{"rendered":"Is Google’s Chrome Browser the browser for Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Michael Adams<\/div>\n

Does the world need another web browser? Google thought so and surprised the world with the announcement and simultaneous release of its new web browser “Chrome”.<\/p>\n

Because the features and benefits of Chrome tend to be complex, Google created their own “comic book” style features guide as well as gave a live demonstration of their product during the press conference to announce the product.<\/p>\n

The central idea of Google’s Chrome browser was to build a browser that runs today’s and tomorrow’s web applications faster, with fewer crashes, than either Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox browsers. Given that Google employees spend most of their work day doing work in a browser; it makes sense that they were motivated to create a browser that runs web applications quickly without crashing. No doubt, today’s slower and less stable browsers must have been a problem for their productivity.<\/p>\n

To help achieve the goal of stability, Google built Chrome from the ground up so that each browser tab would run in an individual process within the operating system. This is similar to how desktop applications work and means that Chrome was built to be more stable. Having each tab be an individual process means that work you are doing in a web application or on a web page in one tab, will not cause problems for the work you are doing in a different tab. This approach circumvents the performance problems and crashes which happen in Firefox or Internet Explorer where a bug in the web app or website can affect all the open tabs in the browser. Anyone who has ever lost work in progress due to a random crash or hang in their web browser will certainly appreciate this feature in Chrome.<\/p>\n

The new tab system in the Google Chrome browser has allowed Google to easily implement new features. One of the more cool features is the option to separate an existing tab into a new window, simply by grabbing and dragging that tab out of the current browser window.<\/p>\n

Another important fact about Google’s Chrome browser is that the source code is available to software developers worldwide. Making the source code available as “open source” means that we’ll see programmers around the world developing custom modifications and additions to Chrome faster and in more innovative ways than Google could have managed on its own.<\/p>\n

One of the controversies surrounding Google’s Chrome is the fact that Google released the browser early in what they are calling a “beta”. With Chrome’s version number standing at 0.2, some early adopters questioned Google’s decision to release the software so early and were indeed expecting a more finished product.<\/p>\n

A simple way to think about how Chrome differs from existing browsers is to understand that “Chrome was built to run web applications quickly and well” while older browsers like “Internet Explorer and Firefox were built to display HTML quickly and well”.<\/p>\n

With more people running web applications every day, it’s clear that running web applications quickly and without crashing is important. Clearly Google believes that point of view and spent the time and money to build the Chrome browser just for that purpose.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
To find more Google Chrome browser news and information<\/a>, with additional thoughts, ideas, new web apps and sites from Michael Adams, be sure you visit “The Chrome Voice”<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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