Google Chrome is a new, yet to be released open-source Web browser from Google. According to Google, the main reason for its existence is to provide a firmer foundation for increasingly complex, mission critical and JavaScript driven applications (such as Google Apps). As they say, a normal HTML Web page crashing a browser is one thing, losing an important document that you are working on is quite another.

It seems that some of the most important design features of the product is multi processing, so that one process does not have to wait until another one is finished before it starts. This is achieved by giving each process its own memory. This will also improve memory managment so that when a process is closed all the memory used is released back to the computer. Apparently the current crop of browsers is not so good at this, which can result in them crashing after to many tabs have been opened and closed.

They have also realized the increasing importance that Javascript is playing in Web page and Web app design, and have developed a virtual machine to ensure that it runs better. This is all explained in comic book format here.

I look forward to trying Chrome out - hopefully it will render CSS flawlessly.

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