- Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project, based on webkit, the same component used by Apple for Safari.
- The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today.
- Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar
- Chaque composant du navigateur tourne dans son propre espace mémoire et en parallèle pour gagner en vitesse et en sécurité.
- Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar
- The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. Called ’omnibox’, Google says it offers search suggestions, top pages you’ve visited, pages you didn’t visit but which are popular amd more.
- As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera. On that page you will see your most visited webpages as 9 screenshot thumbnails..
- Chrome has a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito” window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.”
Even though Chrome is using components already available/integrated in other browser, for sure Google’s browser might want to compete with the forthcoming Internet Explorer (version 8). Security seems to be the main topic of the future fight between internet browsers.
First beta version of chrome will be available for windows this evening, while Linux and Mac version should be available soon.
