Google Chrome… Is this the Google OS?
Philipp Lenssen posts an interesting post at “blogoscoped.com” about an upcoming project named “Google Chrome”. He mentiones a comic strip he received via mail and also provides a link for the scanned pages.
Now this seems a really interesting project. Google Chrome is an open-source browser from Google which is supposed to render the present Web 2.0 pages, in short applications, best and fastest. The whole concept is based on “same isolation you find in modern operating systems”.
That means all tabs are a seperate entities i.e. processes. The browser has his own task manager. Its own Javascript Virtual Machine. Its own Garbage Collector. And many other features which do seem quite interesting.
But question remains. Is it a similar browser with an interesting “Google”ish buldle? Doesn’t it look quite similar on lines with Opera? Is this what they termed as “Google OS”? Will all the promises about rendering and speed be fulfilled? Time will tell …
Links for detailed and discussions:
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Article at “Google Operating System” : Google Chrome
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Read Write Web: Google Chrome
Update: One thing worth noting. Google chrome is supposed to rest in peace at www.google.com/chrome . But currently it returns a 404 error. Just an observation. Compare the returned page with a normal “google.com/crome” page. For chrome, Google does not say, “The page does not exist”. So this page is indeed coming soon. Fingers crossed …
Tags: browser, crome, google