Google Chrome: New Browser from Google
It's only available for Windows (right now) but it looks absolutely AMAZING. I've been reading through their presentation and they've literally taken the core bits and pieces that make your browser slow and re-written them.
- Each tab has it's own process, so one crashing doesn't mean your browser crashing.
- Javascript gets executed in it's own safe-box.
- It also gets compiled to machine-code and then executed, speeding concurrent runs of the same code a LOT.
- The interface has been slimmed down a LOT. So now GMail will look like it's own app, if you want it to, instead of a browser window.
- Pop-ups are restricted to each tab's space. But if you want to promote one to it's own window, you can.
- Open a new tab and you see all your most-visited web sites and most searched-on sites too.
- New versions get tested across millions of web sites (using their own datacentre) long before you get a hold of it.
I'm sad that it's not ready for Linux yet but it will be soon and, in the meantime, you can test it out (if you're on Windows) and give us some feedback here!
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