Google release 'Chrome' browser

Google today announced that it is launching Chrome, its own open-source browser. Their thinking behind the new browser is that the internet is used much differently to how it used to be. People use the web for content-(and processor-) rich media like video and interactive Flash, and older browsers simply can't keep up. They are unstable and crash, or incompatible.



Chrome aims to solve the problem by using independent tabs as a means of viewing content. So if one tab overloads and crashes, Chrome will just close that tab, not crash completely. The user will also be able to see all processes and plugins that are running on a page, and be able to see which tabs are using up the most CPU.



While these advances sound excellent, it will be interesting to see how Chrome fares in terms of compliance with web design standards such as CSS, java and other plugins. I'm also a little wary of switching over to tabbed browsing - I've been a committed 'window opener' ever since I started using the web and it will be a hard habit to break.

Further reading:
Wikipedia
Google comic