It _IS_ a big deal. Chrome has a number of amazing features
(though some of them are obvious in retrospect). I predict just
about every other browser developer will be scrambling to
incorporate them into their browsers, followed by Microsoft with
IE some years later. (This is not a gratuitous slam. MS earned it.)
Chrome will be multithreaded, with each tab running in its
own sandboxed process, which permits a whole new level of
security, stability and privacy features. Chrome also has a
thoroughly revamped javascript engine (to be open-sourced
in its own project) that is faster, more efficient, and more capable
of handling large tasks. Chrome comes with an entirely new
anti-phishing and malware detection engine that Google is making
available to other browser makers. Any of these alone would be
a big deal.
Ho Hum. Yet another browser. This might actually be big news if it was
being *released* tomorrow.
WOW! This is a big deal. Google is developing its own web browser,
called
"Chrome." It is chock full of important new features.
Even more WOW! is that Chrome will be based on the WebKit browser
framework. WebKit is a fork of the KDE KHTML browser engine that was
started by Apple (Safari is Apple-branded WebKit). WebKit is Open
Source
Software (LGPL and BSD licenses). So Safari and Chrome should be
expected
to track each other closely.
The loser here will be FireFox. Brain dead IE users will continue
running
IE no matter what happens.
A nice summary at:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10029914-2.html
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