After spending a few minutes reading the 20+ page cartoon google released about Chrome (thumbs up by the way on that Google, great idea) Chrome is based on Webkit, used by Safari and google’s Android project. It has some impressive features such as threaded browsing and sandboxing, with a focus on security.  Ofcourse many have promissed this, few have delivered.  In any case this is a very promessing browser, i look forward to seeing it in action

On a last note, a new Javascript virtual machine is one of the most impressive features showcased.  More on that to come.

To read the cartoon go to http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Some of you might not be surprised by this but Google is getting a new browser out there aimed to increase the usability of web pages for the users. Codenamed Chrome, or Google Chrome, the new browser is said to be designed from scratch to work more efficiently with web 2.0 content, or atleast that is what the point of this browser is.

Remembering that google was one of the pioneers of the new web (old web + a lot of javascript and re branded) one might not help but wonder if google is trying to use this new browser to gain even more control over the user market (“monitoring user trends”), pushing new working frameworks focusing on this new browser and perhaps setting standards aside for the sake of getting things to “look” nice — (new features that only work) — on their own browser. In addition it remains to be seen how Google’s ties with the Mozilla foundation will evolve with this new browser coming out, perhaps aiming to rival open source projects like Firefox in the near future.

I also wonder if google can deliver on efficiency as web browsers these days seem to be suffering from it.  Will google’s “start from scratch” aproach be a solution? Let’s hope it pushes other browser vendors to start improving their own prodcuts

Read more at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/