Google throws down the glove to Microsoft with its new browser ‘Google Chrome’, available in 100 countries. The software is free and available in the beta version, which can be modified thanks to the contribution of users. A real slap in the face for Microsoft, Google wants to attack the supremacy the giant from Seattle has in programmes for the internet. Google Chrome was designed to make navigation faster and easier, the project took 2 years to develop and became more complex after Microsoft’s launch of Internet Explorer 7.The Web site for Google's new open-source Chrome browser is slowly waking up. There was a logo, a single screenshot, a link to a broken video, and a non-functioning download link. The page now redirects to Google.com, though.
The company is hosting a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters Tuesday at 11 a.m. PDT. The Google Chrome download did not officially start yet, but the Chrome download page was briefly live already. The pages where online long enough for some screenshots of the new Google browser to leak out. As Google already revealed in the Google Chrome Comic book Chrome features the tab bar above the address bar. The homepage of Google Chrome features by default an app launch pad.
Unlike other modern web browsers, which can only run one process at a time, Google Chrome will give each tab its own process. This speeds up overall performance and saves the entire browser from crashing when one tab causes problems.
The multi-process design requires more memory allocation up front but less memory over time as users tend to multitask. It also prevents your computer from slowing down after you browse for an extended period of time and open/close lots of tabs.
Google Chrome also features a task manager that can be used to determine just which tabs and plugins are hogging just how much memory. It’s main purpose is to spot bad actors and close them before they ruin your browsing experience.
Google is leveraging its massive server infrastructure to run automatic performance tests for Chrome. The company is claiming that its Chrome Bot can test the browser on tens of thousands of different webpages within 20-30 minutes of each build. These webpages are chosen on the basis of their popularity, which has already been determined by Google with the data it collects from its search users.
